A-Rod, Derek Jeter, Only MLB players in the list of best paid athletes of all time

When it comes to the world of Elite Sport income, baseball may not always steal the spotlight. It may be sports that have more worldwide reach, perhaps such as the NBA or Soccer, or even F1 nowadays, which are central. But even then MLB legends have kept more than their own.

According to the recent Sportico report, only two Major League Baseball players have achieved the list of the best-paid athletes of all time. And no, it’s not Shohei Ohtani or Juan Soto or someone who is new. It is in fact Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter.

Coincidentally, both Yankee icons and both friends before they ended up in the Major League, and with their history of ups and downs!

Now Alex Rodriguez may have lost the Shortstop spot when he came to the New York Yankees, but in this baseball duo he came a winner. He has been on #22 in the list for a long time! A large part of it is his blockbuster contracts; Do you remember his eye-watery $ 252 million deal with the Rangers? Yes, he was later with a Yankees deal of $ 272 million. But his rich stopped not only after he hung up his shoe plates.

Alex Rodriguez went after retirement, was all about business-he built A-Rod Corp. And then landed on ownership interests on real estate and sport. Moreover, he was also a shark on Shark Tank! And as far as Jeter is concerned, the song can just fall under the top 30; With almost $ 700 million in career income, he is far from behind. The New York Yankee icon did not chase the headlines, but he built quietly instead and also stepped into MLB ownership with the Miami Marlins, invested in companies such as Arena Club, and more.

As for the list, it contains others such as Cristiano Ronaldo, LeBron James and Floyd Mayweather, and 50 other games that are known all over the world. Nowadays, baseball does not get the worldwide attention that football or F1 might do, but certainly, things are changing slowly. And one name that puts MLB on the worldwide map is of course Shohei Ohtani.

Soto and Ohtani Smash MLB -Winstrecords in very different ways

If you thought that in the baseball world the income had reached the ceiling, two more players have rewritten the rules: Juan Soto and Shohei Ohtani. For decades, no MLB player had succeeded in cracking the $ 100 million in a year. The previous High was $ 72 million. But in 2025 these two players managed to do it.

Soto signed a stunning deal of $ 765 million for 15 years at the New York Mets. So that is only $ 129 million this season. 95% comes out of the field and it also has a signing bonus of $ 75 million. He is now the best paid player based on salary.

On the other hand, the money from Ohtani just neuriet. His 10-year-old Dodgers deal of $ 700 million has certainly been postponed. But he will be expected to earn $ 100 million in notes and memorabilia in 2025. That is a figure that only people such as Tiger Woods, Roger Federer and Steph Curry have succeeded in earning. From the Fortnite partnership to New Balance, Beats and more, Ohtani is now a brand. He has equal partners in the US and Japan. Only this stat will tell you everything – Japan on average 12.9 million World Series -viewers with Ohtani on the screen last year! MLB has certainly had a lot to win by having Ohtani on board.

So baseball can still be uneven if people generally look with other sports. But Ohtani and Soto simply ensured that the biggest stars of the game are paid in this way. Perhaps one day there will be their name, whether Jeter’s and A-Rod’s will be.