Baseball's 10 Biggest Salaries

If you pay it, they will come. There are a number of Major League Baseball players pulling in eye-watering bucks, and USA Today runs down the list. Juan Soto takes the cake with a massive 15-year, $765 million deal, but there's a notable asterisk to the top 10 moneyballers: Shohei Ohtani, who signed a 10-year, $700 million deal in 2024, but deferred the bulk of his earnings until much later in his career. He thus comes in at No. 18 on the list of highest-paid baseball players in 2025. The top 10:

1. Juan Soto, Mets: $61.8 million
2. Zack Wheeler, Phillies: $42 million
3. A tie: Aaron Judge, Yankees, and Jacob deGrom, Rangers: $40 million each

5. Anthony Rendon, Angels: $38.6 million
6. Carlos Correa, Twins: $37.3 million
7. Mike Trout, Angels: $37.1 million
8. Gerrit Cole, Yankees: $36 million
9. Jose Altuve, Astros: $33 million
10. Corey Seager, Rangers: $32.5 million

(What Aaron Judge is doing this season is pretty impressive.)