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Cubs win arbitration case with Theriot.
MESA, Ariz. -- Ryan Theriot lost his arbitration case but still came out a winner.
The Cubs won their arbitration case with the shortstop and will pay him$2.6 million this season, the team announced Saturday. Theriot, whomade $500,000 last year, was seeking $3.4 million. Even though he lost,he will still get a significant raise.
The two sides had a hearing Friday in Tampa, Fla. This was thefirst time Theriot, 30, was arbitration-eligible, and the first timethe Cubs had a hearing since 1993.
"We've always paid players what's fair," Cubs general manager JimHendry said Saturday. "I think those of you who know us know wewould've never been in Tampa unless I thought we'd reached the highestlevel of fairness.
"I'm not mad at Ryan for wanting to go [to arbitration],"Hendry said. "He has every right to put himself on the other side ofthe philosophical midpoint."
Hendry and Theriot have known each other for 10 years, and thetwo talked before the hearing. The shortstop was expected to be in Cubscamp Monday when position players report.
"He's being compensated what I thought was a fair number tobegin with," said Hendry, who was back at Fitch Park in Mesa. "He'll befine."