Mets lock up batting champion McNeil on $50M, four-year deal
NEW YORK (AP) — Batting champion Jeff McNeil and the New York Mets finalized a $50 million, four-year contract Tuesday that prevented a wage arbitration listening to.
McNeil will get $6.25 million this 12 months, $10.25 million in 2024 and $15.75 million in every of the next two years. The Mets have a $15.75 million choice for 2027 with a $2 million buyout, a season that if exercised would make the settlement price $63.75 million over 5 years.
He would get $100,000 for successful the World Series MVP, $50,000 for League Championship Series MVP, Gold Glove, Silver Slugger or making the All-Star group. McNeil would obtain a one-time $500,000 project bonus if traded, payable by the receiving group. He additionally will get a resort suite on street journeys.
A two-time All-Star, McNeil led the majors with a .326 common final season. The second baseman requested for a increase from $3 million to $7.75 million this 12 months, whereas New York supplied $6.25 million.
He was the one certainly one of seven Mets eligible for arbitration who didn’t conform to phrases on a deal and formally exchanged wage proposals with the group on the Jan. 13 deadline.
But the perimeters settled on a multiyear settlement weeks later, avoiding arguments earlier than a three-person panel in St. Petersburg, Fla.
McNeil, who turns 31 in April, may have develop into a free agent following the 2024 season however agreed to push that again not less than two years, probably three.
An glorious contact hitter and a flexible defender, McNeil additionally made 44 begins within the outfield final season: 33 in left area and 11 in proper. He had an .836 OPS on the plate with 9 house runs, 39 doubles and 62 RBIs in 148 video games for a Mets group that made its first playoff look in six years.
He gained a Silver Slugger Award and completed fifteenth in NL MVP voting.
McNeil is a .307 profession hitter in 4 1/2 massive league seasons with 46 homers and an .827 OPS. He has struck out solely 242 occasions in 2,039 plate appearances.
McNeil was drafted by the Mets within the twelfth spherical out of Long Beach State in 2013.
