Blue Jays' Ernie Clement gives $35 million contract update, but it's complicated
Toronto's fan favorite is talking money.
Blue Jays' Ernie Clement gives $35 million contract update, but it's complicated originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Ernie Clement has made himself indispensable to the Toronto Blue Jays .
Could that mean a contract extension is coming? Clement has brought it up. He was on a recent episode of the popular hockey podcast, Spittin' Chiclets .
And during his appearance, Clement shared what kind of contract he might be looking to receive from the Blue Jays in the future. His suggestion: five years for $35 million. It was framed more as something that Clement would be happy to expect and not so much an offer that is on the way, at least this early in the year.
It's also hard to know whether Clement would actually be offered a contract even close to that by the Blue Jays. MORE: Terrance Gore's son honors dad with perfect first pitch He has multiple things working against him. For starters, it doesn't help that Clement just turned 30 years old.