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70% Win
(110-25-1)
70% Win
(110-25-1)
70% Win
(110-25-1)
MLB has quite a history of dishing out large contracts to its players. MLB's highest-paid players are right up there when it comes to comparisons with mega-player contracts from other sports.
To make an assessment, we first need to look at the two players who have drawn the biggest contracts in the MLB. Mike Trout, with a $426.5 million 12-year contract, and Mookie Betts, with a $365 million 12-year contract, are MLB's highest-paid players. They both are ranked third and joint-fifth on the list of sportspersons with the biggest contracts signed.
Now let's have a look at the others on the list and compare them to the two baseball legends.
Occupying a joint-fifth position on the list of mega contracts is Mexican professional boxer, Canelo Alvarez. In 2018 he signed a 5-year, 11-fight contract worth $365 million with DAZN Boxing. With a 59-2-2 record in professional boxing, Alvarez is quite a draw. Mookie Betts' Los Angeles Dodgers record contract is tied with the same worth.
Edging out Mike Trout in the third position is NFL's Patrick Mahomes. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback recently added a second Super Bowl in 2023 to his achievement list. It quite rightly justified the ten-year $503 million contract that he had signed with the franchise in 2020.
One GOAT from the world of association football takes the second spot. Leaving European football after 20 years, Cristiano Ronaldo signed a 2.5-year $536 million contract in 2023 with Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr. He currently earns the highest annual salary for any athlete.
When Lionel Messi was at FC Barcelona, he often single-handedly won matches for his team. That was represented well through his 4-year $674 million contract that the football legend had signed with his boyhood club in 2017. In 2021, after the expiration of the contract, he left, signaling a new era for Barca.
