CHICAGO (AP) -Pitcher Ryan Dempster and the Chicago Cubs are close to agreement on a four-year contract worth about $52 million, according to a baseball official.
The official, with knowledge of the negotiations, spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press because the Cubs had not made any announcement.
Dempster was 17-6 with a 2.96 ERA for the Cubs last season, then became a free agent. Chicago has not commented in recent days on its efforts to re-sign the 31-year-old right-hander.
“We are still talking seriously about it,” Dempster’s agent, Craig Landis, said in an e-mail late Monday.
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AP Baseball Writer Ronald Blum in New York contributed to this report.
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