Manny Machado, Padres finalize $350M, 11-year contract
PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — All-Star slugger Manny Machado and the San Diego Padres finalized a $350 million, 11-year contract on Tuesday, the fourth-largest in baseball historical past.
The deal will hold Machado with the Padres by way of 2033 and is the newest contract handed out by big-spending proprietor Peter Seidler.
Machado, who has helped flip the Padres right into a World Series contender, completed second within the NL MVP race final yr. He’ll anchor a star-laden lineup that features Xander Bogaerts, Juan Soto and Fernando Tatis Jr., who can return on April 20 from an 80-game suspension for performance-enhancing medicine.
Machado batted .298 with 32 residence runs and 102 RBIs in 2022 and is coming into his twelfth large league season. He has a profession .282 batting common with an .833 OPS, 283 homers and 853 RBIs.
He helped lead the Padres on a stirring run to the NL Championship Series final yr, the place they misplaced in 5 video games to Philadelphia.
His deal’s whole trails contracts for Mike Trout ($426.5 million for 12 years), Mookie Betts ($365 million for 12 years) and Aaron Judge ($360 million for 9 years). However, Machado’s $31.8 million common ranks simply sixteenth.
Machado, 30, had mentioned that after this season he deliberate to choose out of the $300 million, 10-year free agent deal he signed in 2019. With the $120 million he already has obtained, the brand new deal will increase the free-spending Padres’ dedication to Machado to $470 million over 15 years.
