Baseball

The New York Mets offered to make Dwight Gooden the third-highest paid player in baseball, but the pitcher’s agent said the offer was unacceptable.

Gooden says that if he doesn’t get the extension by Friday, he will file for free agency after the World Series and won’t negotiate during the season.

“It’s a start,” agent Jim Neader said from his office in St. Petersburg, Fla. “Those numbers would make it less than $4.7 million and more than $4.1 million. That’s a wide range and it is not acceptable.”