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Major League Baseball transactions are changes made to the roster of a major league team during or after the season. They may include waiving, releasing, and trading players, as well as assigning players to minor league teams.
This is a list of the largest sports contracts. These figures include signing bonuses but exclude options, buyouts, and the endorsement deals. This list does not reflect the highest annual salaries or career earnings, only the top 100 largest contracts and thus is largely limited to athletes in team sports and auto racing.
In 2019, Mike Trout signed a 12-year, $426 million contract with the Angels, the richest contract in the history of North American sports at the time. Alex Rodriguez earned the highest salary in MLB in 2013 at $28,000,000. He also has the highest career earnings in MLB history, as well as a record 13 years with the highest AAV.
According to ESPN's Jeff Passan, former Georgia baseball star Charlie Condon signed the largest MLB signing bonus in league history Friday at $9.25 million.
Alperen Şengün has agreed to a five-year, $185 million extension to his rookie contract, ESPN's Bobby Marks reported Monday, citing Şengün's agents.. Şengün's deal is one of a flurry ahead ...
Methodology: In order to find the biggest MLB contract busts of all time, GOBankingRates analyzed notably disappointing non-rookie contracts. GOBankingRates referenced BleacherReport’s “The 20 ...
MLB debut; April 12, 2008, for the Tampa Bay Rays ... $17.5 million contract with options for 2014, 2015, and 2016. ... Longoria was the first rookie and second ...
The deal was the richest in MLB history for a pitcher, eclipsing the seven-year, $180 million, contract signed by Justin Verlander the previous year. [85] The average annual value of $30.7 million was also the largest ever for a baseball player, beating the $28 million Roger Clemens received in 2007 and the 10-year, $275 million contract that ...