Samardzija is Top Earner Among Hoosier-Born Big Leaguers
April 6, 2018
USA Today listed the salaries for all big league players prior to opening day. The newspaper showed a base salary of $19,800,000 for Samardzija, a right-handed starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants.
Nicknamed “The Shark,” Samardzija is a former two-sport star at
Now in his eleventh big-league campaign, the 33-year-old Samardzija was a fifth-round draft pick by the Cubs in 2006. He reached the majors with
Samardzija opened this season on the disabled list with a pectoral injury. He has 68 wins, 87 losses and a 4.10 earned run average heading into this year. An All-Star in 2014 with the A’s, Samardzija has logged 200-plus innings in each of the past five seasons.
Salaries for all 13 Indiana-born big leaguers on opening-day rosters for 2018:
Jeff Samardzija (
Lance Lynn (
Tommy Hunter (
Kevin Kiermaier (
Tucker Barnhart (
Kyle Gibson (
Clayton Richard (
Drew Butera (
Josh Phegley (
Jerad Eickhoff (
Alex Meyer (
Sean Manaea (
Dillon Peters (
Pete Cava is the author of “Tales From the Cubs Dugout” and “Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players: A Biographical Dictionary, 1871-2014.”