Dodgers Extend Max Muncy on One Year Guarantee with Options
The Los Angeles Dodgers have just announced they are extending one of the most important players of the last decade.
Max Muncy has just earned a one year extension worth $10 million guaranteed. The deal includes a $7M salary for 2027 season and a $10 million club option for 2028. This gives the Dodgers the flexibility they love to have an rewards Max Muncy for his veteran leadership and clutch hitting – see home run in Game 7 of the World series as latest moment.
Muncy played in 100 games last year with a .243/.36.470 slash line, 19 home runs and 67 RBIs, but it is the intangibles that will make Max a Dodger for life and one of the best 3rd basemen in the show.
Munch finished with the postseason with three home runs, including the aforementioned Game 7 home run in the World Series that brought the Dodgers within one run to give Miguel Rojas the opportunity to make baseball history. Max holds a number of franchise records in home runs, RBIs, plate appearances and extra base hits.
Official Press Release Below
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed to terms with infielder Max Muncy on a one-year contract extension for $10 million guaranteed, which includes a $7 million salary for the 2027 season and a $10 million club option for 2028.
Muncy, 36, played in 100 games last season, slashing .243/.376/.470 with 19 homers and 67 RBI. He finished the postseason with three homers, including his homer in Game 7 of the World Series that brought the Dodgers within one run in the winner-take-all finale of the Fall Classic. His 16 round trippers in the postseason are a franchise record as well as his 46 runs scored and he is among the franchise leaders in various other categories, including RBI (3rd, 37), doubles (6th, 9), plate appearances (2nd, 328) and extra-base hits (T-3rd, 25).
He has been with the Dodgers since 2018, playing in 924 games, clubbing 209 homers and driving in 587 runs. The two-time All-Star ranks seventh all-time in Dodger history in homers and is two behind Steve Garvey for sixth all-time in franchise history. In his eight seasons in Dodger Blue, he has collected 713 hits, 566 runs, an .828 OPS while posting a 27.2 bWAR.
He was drafted by the Athletics in the fifth round of the 2012 First Year Player Draft out of Baylor University.