Who are the top five paid players for MLB in 2007?

Question

ESPN player profiles indicate A-Rod is paid $27 mil, but in his contract breakdown and article from 4/6/07 (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=schoenfield/070406&sportCat=mlb) they have Giambi as #1 with $23.5 mil. What's the real deal?

Answer 1

The key there is in the small print - in the article you provide the link for, it says "includes prorated signing bonus, but not deferred payments or incentives."

A-Rod does make $27m annually at this point of his contract, but $4m of this year's salary is deferred, the same thing that happened the past couple of years. He will get those moneys paid out, at a pretty low rate of interest, in 2016. His contract has a lot of deferred money and bonus clauses.

http://www.mlb4u.com/profile.php?id=991

Here's a list of the top 25 in all of MLB, which is from the same place ESPN put together their list:

http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/salaries/top25.aspx?year=2007

Answer 2

one million) Magglio Ordonez 2) Vladimir Guerrero 3) Alex Rodriguez 4) Prince Fielder 5) Dan Haren 6) Jose Reyes 7) Francisco Rodriguez 8) Russell Martin 9) Hanley Ramirez 10) Matt Holliday

Answer 3

1) Jason Giambi 23.4 million
2) Alex Rodriguez 22.7 "
3) Derek Jeter 21.6 "
4)Manny Ramirez 17 "
5) Todd Helton 16.6 "
That is this year with defferred monies not counted. For example A-Rod averages 27 Million a year but he gets a balloon payment (with interest) in 2016 or something like that.

Answer 4

A rod

Answer 5

a rod has the biggest earky earnings but he is overated and chokes in the playoffs...now papi and fisk are and were clutch

Answer 6

who cares thos overpriced overhyped NO SALARY CAP roid shooting ego maniacs are nothing but little brats anyway.

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