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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.
How does it compare to the largest deals in the NFL, NBA, NHL and the rest of MLB? Let's take a look. NFL: Patrick Mahomes, 10 years, $477 million (AAV $47.7 million)
Players on Major League Baseball rosters at the start of the 2021 season earned an average of $4.17 million. ... Baseball contracts are fully guaranteed, meaning Trout and Betts will see every ...
The players' association discounted it at 5% and valued it at approximately $43.7 million. ... Stanton's contract was the largest and longest in baseball history when he and the Marlins agreed to ...
In 1920, the inaugural season of the NFL, [b] 11 veterans of major-league baseball (including George Halas and Jim Thorpe) became the first athletes to accomplish the feat. Since 1970, only seven athletes have done so, including Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders. Jackson was the first athlete to be selected as an All-Star in both MLB and the NFL.
Chicago Bears: David Montgomery Position: Running back Base salary: $684,136 Signing bonus: $261,545 Total cap hit: $945,681 Percentage of total cap: 0.44% Considering the sorry state of the Bears ...
We need to get a highest annual salary list. Also Beck's contract is misleading because it includes endorsements which virtually no other contract does. Jordan was making $35 million a year in salary alone and should be #1 all-time. He also made $80-100 million a year in endorsements I believe. However he signed single year contracts.