McGwire signs for two-year contract extension
By Mark Long
The Associated Press
JUPITER, Fla. — Big Mac is get
ting some big bucks.
Still, it’s nowhere near what he
would command on the free-agent
market.
Mark McGwire and the St. Louis
Cardinals agreed Thursday to a two
year extension worth about $30 mil
lion.
“We could not be more pleased,”
Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr.
said. “From day one, it has been a real
pleasure working with Mark. He of
fers a great perspective when it comes
to contract negotiations, and he takes
a real interest in securing a deal that
he believes to be fair not only for
himself, but also for the team.”
The new deal runs through 2003,
the season McGwire could be ap
proaching Hank Aaron’s home-run
record of 755.
“I had no desire to play anywhere
other than St. Louis,” McGwire
said. ‘‘In my mind, there is no bet
ter place to be if you are a baseball
player.”
McGwire, 37, missed most of the
second half of last season with a
knee injury and had surgery, during
the off-season, but has been healthy
this spring.
McGwire and the Cardinals were
talking about an extension that
would pay him $14 million in 2002
and $16 million the following year,
according to two baseball officials
familiar with the negotiations who
spoke on the condition they not be
identified.
Big Mac is seventh on the career
home-run list with 554, just 201 be
hind Aaron, and would have to av
erage 67 homers in the next three
seasons to tie the mark.
McGwire set the single-season
record with 70 homers in 1998, then
hit 65 the following year. He hit 32
last season in just 236 at-bats.
With an average salary of about
$15 million, McGwire will rank
about eighth in baseball.
He could command far more
money if he became a free agent af
ter this season, perhaps even top the
average salary record of $25.2 mil
lion set by Alex Rodriguez in his
$252 million, 10-year contract with
Texas.
But McGwire has never been in
terested in obtaining top dollar.
His current deal, agreed to after he
was traded from Oakland to St. Louis
in the 1997 season, originally guaran
teed him $28.5' million over three
years: a $1 million signing bonus, $8
million in 1998, $8.5 million in 1999,
$9 million in 2000 and a $2 million
buyout of a 2001 option.
McGwire could have become a
free agent in November, but chose
not to, instead agreeing to exercise
an $11 million mutual option.
Disgusted with baseball’s re
peated work stoppages, McGwire
said last year that he would retire
if there’s another one next winter
after the expiration of the current
labor contract. He has since soft
ened that stance.
“I’d really have to weigh the sit
uation,” McGwire said last month.
“If it does happen, I’d really have
to see how long it lasted. If some
thing happens and it lasts a couple
of days or a week, it’s not going to
damage the game.”
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