NEWS
With news that OF Bryan Reynolds has agreed to an historic 8 year, $106.75M extension with the Pittsburgh Pirates, we took some time to identify each MLB Franchise's largest total value contract of all-time.
RELATED: All-Time MLB Contracts
Notable Notes
- Three franchises (Oakland, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City) have yet to sign a player to $90M+.
- 9 franchises have a $300M+ contract under their belts
- 17 franchises (56%) have a $200M+ contract under their belts
- 7 of these contracts were signed for 2023
- 12 of these contracts have been signed in the past 2 years
- Oakland's last "largest ever" contract was signed in 2004
- Only two of these contracts belong to pitchers (Greinke, Strasburg)
| TEAM | PLAYER | POS | SIGNED AGE | START YEAR | LENGTH | VALUE | AAV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYY | Aaron Judge | OF | 30 | 2023 | 9 | $360,000,000 | $40,000,000 |
| SD | Manny Machado | 3B | 30 | 2023 | 11 | $350,000,000 | $31,818,182 |
| BOS | Rafael Devers | 3B | 26 | 2023 | 10 | $313,500,000 | $31,350,000 |
| ATL | Austin Riley | 3B | 25 | 2023 | 10 | $212,000,000 | $21,200,000 |
| MIN | Carlos Correa | SS | 28 | 2023 | 6 | $200,000,000 | $33,333,333 |
| PIT | Bryan Reynolds | OF | 28 | 2023 | 8 | $106,750,000 | $13,343,750 |
| CHW | Andrew Benintendi | OF | 28 | 2023 | 5 | $75,000,000 | $15,000,000 |
| NYM | Francisco Lindor | SS | 27 | 2022 | 10 | $341,000,000 | $34,100,000 |
| TEX | Corey Seager | SS | 27 | 2022 | 10 | $325,000,000 | $32,500,000 |
| TB | Wander Franco | SS | 20 | 2022 | 11 | $182,000,000 | $16,545,455 |
| CLE | Jose Ramirez | 3B | 29 | 2022 | 7 | $141,000,000 | $20,142,857 |
| KC | Salvador Perez | C | 31 | 2022 | 4 | $82,000,000 | $20,500,000 |
| LAD | Mookie Betts | OF | 27 | 2021 | 12 | $365,000,000 | $30,416,667 |
| TOR | George Springer | OF | 31 | 2021 | 6 | $150,000,000 | $25,000,000 |
| WSH | Stephen Strasburg | SP | 31 | 2020 | 7 | $245,000,000 | $35,000,000 |
| MIL | Christian Yelich | OF | 28 | 2020 | 7 | $188,500,000 | $26,928,571 |
| STL | Paul Goldschmidt | 1B | 31 | 2020 | 5 | $130,000,000 | $26,000,000 |
| LAA | Mike Trout | OF | 27 | 2019 | 12 | $426,500,000 | $35,541,667 |
| PHI | Bryce Harper | OF | 26 | 2019 | 13 | $330,000,000 | $25,384,615 |
| COL | Nolan Arenado | 3B | 27 | 2019 | 8 | $260,000,000 | $32,500,000 |
| HOU | Jose Altuve | 2B | 27 | 2018 | 7 | $163,500,000 | $23,357,143 |
| DET | Miguel Cabrera | 1B | 30 | 2016 | 8 | $248,000,000 | $31,000,000 |
| ARI | Zack Greinke | SP | 32 | 2016 | 6 | $206,500,000 | $34,416,667 |
| CHC | Jason Heyward | OF | 26 | 2016 | 8 | $184,000,000 | $23,000,000 |
| BAL | Chris Davis | 1B | 30 | 2016 | 7 | $161,000,000 | $23,000,000 |
| MIA | Giancarlo Stanton | OF | 25 | 2015 | 13 | $325,000,000 | $25,000,000 |
| SEA | Robinson Cano | 2B | 31 | 2014 | 10 | $240,000,000 | $24,000,000 |
| CIN | Joey Votto | 1B | 28 | 2014 | 10 | $225,000,000 | $22,500,000 |
| SF | Buster Posey | C | 26 | 2013 | 8 | $159,000,000 | $19,875,000 |
| OAK | Eric Chavez | 3B | 27 | 2005 | 6 | $66,000,000 | $11,000,000 |