{"id":367162,"date":"2025-12-23T18:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367162\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:03:07","slug":"cubs-to-sign-jacob-webb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367162\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs To Sign Jacob Webb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs are in agreement with right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=webbja01,webb--009jac,webb--014jac&amp;search=Jacob+Webb&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-23_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jacob Webb<\/a> on a one-year deal that includes a club option for the 2027 season, according to a report from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PJ_Mooney\/status\/2003520272541114479?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Patrick Mooney of The Athletic<\/a>. Per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WillSammon\/status\/2003524532062290032?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Athletic\u2019s Will Sammon<\/a>, the righty is set to make $1.5MM in 2026 with a $2.5MM option for 2027, though incentives can push those figures up to $2MM and $3MM respectively. Webb is a client of KHG Sports Management.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cubs are in agreement with right-hander Jacob Webb on a one-year deal that includes a club option&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,171705,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-367162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-jacob-webb","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}