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Five of the twenty highest-paid players in 2013 were members of the Yankees. Their team payroll for 2013 was $228,835,490, roughly $12 million above the second-largest Los Angeles Dodgers . [ 12 ] The Yankees have drawn criticism for their payroll, with some claiming it undermines the parity of MLB.
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 ...
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By 1941, Hank Greenberg was the highest-paid player in baseball, earning $55,000 a season ($1,139,300 today). [8] Stan Musial's $80,000 a season ($917,900 today) was the highest in 1952, while young star Mickey Mantle earned $10,000 a season ($114,700 today). Musial, like Cobb, supplemented his income; he owned a restaurant.
In December 1980, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner made Winfield the game's highest-paid player by signing him to a ten-year, $23 million contract (equivalent to $85.1 million in 2023). Steinbrenner mistakenly thought he was signing Winfield for $16 million, unaware of the meaning of a cost-of-living clause in the contract, [ 11 ] a ...
Bonilla signed a five-year, $29 million contract (equivalent to $63 million today) with the New York Mets on December 2, 1991. [11] [12] The $6.1 million he received in 1992 was a record for a single season by a margin of $2.3 million. [13] He became the highest-paid player in the National League from 1992 to 1994.
This contract made him the highest-paid player in baseball for a brief period and the first player in baseball history to make $10 million in a season. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] He enjoyed two great seasons in Chicago, including a career-high 27-game hitting streak in May 1997, and came close to another 50/50 season in 1998 with 49 home runs (a White Sox ...
would be interesting to show highest paid indexed to inflation--Confuzion 08:49, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC) If you want to do the math, be our guest :) Kingturtle 05:08, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC) Wow, I just totaled the salaries of the highest 100 MLB players and got $1.175 billion per year.