Keith Hernandez is Still Getting Seinfeld Money

Keith Hernandez had no aspirations of becoming an actor when he was approached to appear on a February 1992 episode of “Seinfeld”. The former National League MVP had never heard of the show and he did it, naturally, for the money.

“I had no idea what it was about or anything,” the current New York Mets broadcaster said in a 2007 interview. “But he said, ‘They’ll fly you first class to L.A., put you up in a nice hotel and they’ll pay you $15,000.’ And I said, ‘Sure, I’ll do it.’ It’s kind of hard to turn down that kind of money for a week’s work.”

Now, more than 20 years later, Hernandez is reminded of his role in the episode TV Guide once ranked the fourth greatest of all-time one royalty check at a time.

“Every time they show it. I get around — I’m going to say they show my episode a lot. So I’m going to say I get a check every month. Nothing less than six weeks,” Hernandez said recently. “They show it all the time. It’s international and everything.”

And how much does the former first baseman get?

“It used to be almost $1,000. It diminishes as the years go by,” the mustached former Met added. “So it gives me around $3,000 per year. I’ll take it. For doing nothing. So you can imagine what Jerry gets. The principal actors, what they get.”

Not bad work for doing nothing, pretty boy.