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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. [6] Kirby Puckett and Rickey Henderson signed the first contracts which paid an average of $3 million a year in November 1989.
The Houston Astros and free-agent catcher Victor Caratini finalized their $12 million, two-year contract Thursday. Caratini gets a $6 million salary each of the next two seasons and can earn ...
Graveman has a $1.35 million salary for this year in the deal announced Monday, which includes a $5 million mutual option for 2026 with a $100,000 buyout. ... Houston Astros relief pitcher Kendall ...
The first agreement stated that the top five salary teams in each year would pay a 34% fine on each dollar a team spent beyond halfway between the salaries of the fifth and sixth teams. For example, if the fifth-highest salary team had a payroll of $100 million and the sixth-highest salary team had a payroll of $98 million, the top five teams ...
1905 Houston Buffaloes team photo. From 1888 until 1961, Houston's professional baseball club was the minor league Houston Buffaloes.Although expansion from the National League eventually brought an MLB team to Texas in 1962, Houston officials had been making efforts to do so for years prior, with a group effort led in 1952 to buy the St. Louis Cardinals for $4.25 million, but local owners ...
The only of the four major sports with no salary cap, top MLB salaries have skyrocketed over recent years -- particularly among the league's top pitchers. Here are the 25 highest paid MLB players ...
That same year, he played collegiate summer baseball for the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters of the Northwoods League. As a junior, Arrighetti transferred to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 2021, he led the Ragin' Cajuns with 83.2 innings pitched, posting a 7–6 record with a 3.12 ERA and a team-high 91 strikeouts.
The Houston Astros have made another big offseason move, picking up free agent first baseman Christian Walker, per multiple reports. Walker and the Astros have agreed on a three-year, $60 million ...