MLB’s top 10 earners will haul in $576 million combined this season, led by the sport’s first two $100 million men in Mets signing Juan Soto and Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani.
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00:00Here are baseball's five highest paid players. At five is Philly's ace Zach Wheeler set to earn an
00:05estimated 42.2 million dollars in 2025. Last year's Cy Young runner-up works with Nike and
00:10Fanatics off the field. At four is Yankee star Aaron Judge set to collect an estimated 48 million
00:16dollars this season. With eight million dollars coming off the field the reigning AL MVP is tied
00:20with Bryce Harper as baseball's most marketable player not named Shohei Otani. Coming in third
00:25is Dodgers pitchers Blake Snell with 65.6 million dollars in expected earnings. He signed a five
00:31year 182 million dollar deal this offseason and being that this is the Dodgers much of it is
00:36deferred until later on. At number two is two-way phenom Shohei Otani who is expected to earn 102
00:42million dollars in 2025. He's in rare air now as one of only four active athletes to pull in 100
00:48million dollars or more off the field in 12 months. And the highest paid baseball player of 2025 is
00:54Juan Soto who's projected to earn a record 126.9 million this year. That's largely due to a 75
01:01million dollar signing bonus as part of his massive mega deal with the New York Mets. Read more at Forbes.