Jeff McNeil & Mets Agree to Contract Extension
The New York Mets and Jeff McNeil agreed to a four-year, $50 million extension that will keep the veteran second baseman a member of the Mets for the foreseeable future.
According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, McNeil and the Mets were scheduled for an arbitration hearing where he was requesting $7.75 million, while the Mets countered with $6.25 million. Soon enough both sides decided to turn the negotiations into extension talks that will keep the NL Batting Champion in Queens past the final two years of arbitration.
BREAKING: National League batting champion Jeff McNeil and the New York Mets are in agreement on a four-year, $50 million contract extension, pending physical, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN. It includes a fifth-year club option that could take value to $63.75 million
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) January 27, 2023
McNeil, 31, was not scheduled to hit free agency until before his age 33 season, which was 2025. Now he will be a Met longer than that. He will earn $12.5 million per season.
McNeil is one of the game’s best contact hitters, having struck out only 242 times 2,039 career plate appearances. A lifetime .307 hitter, McNeil provided an All-Star slash line in 2022 hitting .326/.382/.454 with 39 doubles, 9 home runs, 62 RBIs and just 61 strikeouts in 589 times at the plate.
The question is now that McNeil’s contract extension is complete there is one other Met infielder who is due an extension. Hmmmmm …
Jeff McNeil’s extension is done. Up next… #Mets #LGM pic.twitter.com/AqanWeZvSl
— Matt Musico (@mmusico8) January 27, 2023
