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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.
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.
As with the prior example, this cannot occur with players who spend a full season in a rookie or Class A (short season) league. Per the current collective bargaining agreement between MLB and the Players Association, effective as of the 2022 season, a player may be optioned to the minor leagues no more than five times in a given season. [15]
The contract’s total value can reach $377.7 million over a 14-year period, per Passan. Witt, just 23, enjoyed a career season in 2023 , with 30 home runs and 49 stolen bases. He’s the first ...
The 2023 Major League Baseball offseason saw the signing of more than a handful of long-term multimillion-dollar contracts with eye-popping financial numbers. Among the contracts, the Yankees ...
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.
In theory, there are two main benefits derived from salary caps – promotion of parity between teams, and control of costs. [5] [6] [7]Primarily, an effective salary cap prevents wealthy teams from certain destructive behaviours such as signing a multitude of high-paid star players to prevent their rivals from accessing these players, and ensuring victory through superior economic power.
He started 2015 with the Tampa Yankees [5] before reaching Double-A. [6] Baseball America and MLB Pipeline both ranked him as the organization's 10th best prospect at mid-season. [7] The Yankees added him to their 40-man roster after the season.