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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.
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. Athletes in individual sports , such as golf , tennis , table tennis , boxing , kickboxing , and MMA , are not employed by a team and usually earn money primarily ...
From the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles from Brooklyn in 1958, the Dodgers employed a handful of well-known public address announcers; the most famous of which was John Ramsey, who served as the PA voice of the Dodgers from 1958 until his retirement in 1982; he was also well known for announcing at other venerable Los Angeles venues, including ...
Austin Scott Barnes (born December 28, 1989) is an American professional baseball catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the Arizona State Sun Devils. Barnes was selected by the Florida Marlins in the eighth round of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft.
The relationship between Sandy Koufax, the Dodgers' ace and future Hall of Famer, and the Dodgers' GM soured considerably after his salary negotiations in 1964.After his MVP- and Cy Young Award-winning performance in the 1963 season, followed by his World Series performance against the New York Yankees, Koufax asked for a $75,000 salary, writing in his autobiography:
Dodgers move to Los Angeles, Mrs. Smith sells her shares to O'Malley & the Mulveys [1] 13: Walter O'Malley: 1975–1979: O'Malley buys out the Mulveys [1] 14: Peter O'Malley and Terry Seidler: 1979–1997: Walter O'Malley dies, shares inherited by Peter O'Malley & Terry Seidler [1] 15: Fox Entertainment Group: 1998–1999: Fox purchases the ...
By then, only 14 of the 1985 free agents were still in baseball, and Roberts awarded seven of them a second chance as "new look" free agents. They could offer their services to any team without losing their existing contracts. On January 29, 1988, Kirk Gibson signed a $4.5 million, three-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
[21] [22] From 2021-2023, Los Angeles would continue their regular-season success, but went home early each of these seasons, including winning just one postseason game in 2022 and 2023. Friedman and the Dodgers would sign two-way star Shohei Ohtani to a record 10-year, $700 million contract in December before the start of the 2024 season.