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Length of contract Contract value Average per year (USD) Average per game/event [a] (USD) Ref. 1 Juan Soto: New York Mets: Baseball: 15 years (2025–2039) $765,000,000 $51,000,000 $314,814 [1] 2 Shohei Ohtani: Los Angeles Dodgers: 10 years (2024–2033) [b] $700,000,000 $70,000,000 [b] $432,099 [3] 3 Lionel Messi: Barcelona: Association ...
In 1990, Jose Canseco signed for 5 years and $23.5 million, making him the first player to earn an average of $4 million a year. It wasn't until 2010 when the MLB average salary rose above that same mark. [7] [8] Alex Rodriguez signed two record-breaking contracts over the course of his career. First, he signed a $252 million, 10-year contract ...
The Red Sox were willing to overlook his total lack of MLB experience because of his great tools and success in Cuba, signing him to a seven-year, $72.5 million contract in 2014.
Currently, teams can earn compensatory picks in the draft based on departing free agents who reject a Qualifying Offer from their respective team. A qualifying offer is defined as a one-year contract worth the average value of the top 120 player contracts for that year (in 2015, the value of the qualifying offer was $15.8 million).
When news of Shohei Ohtani's contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers was reported on Dec. 9, 2023, he broke the record for largest deal in MLB history in both total value and average annual value.
Teams may trade only players currently under contract. Trades between two or more major-league teams may freely occur at any time during a window that opens two days after the starting date of the final game of the most recent World Series and closes at 4 pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC 2000) on July 31.
He smashed 53 home runs, the most in baseball, and hit .260/.358/.583 on his way to the National League Rookie of the Year award. Alonso has a .249/.339/.514 career slash line but can sometimes ...
In Major League Baseball, the Rookie of the Year Award is given annually to two outstanding rookie players, one each for the American League (AL) and National League (NL), as voted on by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).