20 largest contracts in baseball history
This season marked a new record for the MLB, when the total payrolls on opening day exceeded $3 billion. Here is a list of the biggest contracts of MLB history using data from Baseball Prospectus' contract database.
(Dollar figures not adjusted for deferred money.)
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