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Pitcher Nolan Ryan was the first player to earn an annual salary above $1 million, signing a $4.5 million, 4-year contract with the Houston Astros in 1979. [4] Kirby Puckett and Rickey Henderson signed the first contracts which paid an average of $3 million a year in November 1989.
Pedro Jaime Martínez (born October 25, 1971) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball starting pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1992 to 2009, for five teams—most notably the Boston Red Sox from 1998 to 2004.
Gurazeni: Money Pitch (グラゼニ, Gurazeni) [a] is a Japanese baseball manga series written by Yūji Moritaka and illustrated by Keiji Adachi . The manga was serialized in Kodansha 's seinen manga magazine Morning from December 2010 to August 2014, with its chapters collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes.
Valenzuela was considered an atypically good hitter for a pitcher. He won the Silver Slugger award for pitchers in 1981 and 1983. [29] Of his 41.5 career wins above replacement (WAR), 4.1 were attributed to his bat, including 1.2 WAR in 1990 (in just 78 plate appearances) and 0.6 WAR in both 1981 and 1986 (71 and 116 plate appearances ...
Donald Zackary Greinke (/ ˈ ɡ r eɪ n k i / GRAYN-kee; [1] born October 21, 1983) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent.Greinke primarily played with the Kansas City Royals in Major League Baseball (MLB) across two stints; from his 2004 debut to 2010, and from 2022 to 2023.
In total this winter, the A’s have nearly doubled the money they’ve allocated to players under guaranteed salaries, from $25.6 million in 2024 to a projected $49.1 million ahead of 2025.
Trevor Andrew Bauer [3] (born January 17, 1991) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, and Los Angeles Dodgers, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
The woman who accused former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer of sexual assault has spoken out after he broke his silence to address the saga earlier this week.