who is the highest paid baseball player in the major leagues
Clayton Kershaw Alex Rodriguez
title: Clayton Kershaw text: Dodgers agreed on a seven-year, $215 million, contract extension. The deal was the richest in MLB history for a pitcher, eclipsing the seven-year, $180 million, contract signed by Justin Verlander the previous year. The average annual value of $30.7 million was also the largest ever for a baseball player, beating the $28 million Roger Clemens received in 2007 and the 10-year, $275 million contract that Alex Rodriguez signed that same year. Kershaw made his fourth straight opening day start for the Dodgers in 2014, only the fourth Dodger ever to do so. This season the game was played at the title: Adam Katz text: at the time. Katz also helped Aaron Boone successfully transition to the managerial side of baseball, negotiating a three-year, $4 million contract for Boone as manager of the New York Yankees in 2018. Today, Katz represents over 30 current Major and Minor League Baseball players, including Hanley Ramirez, Jeff Samardzija, Kenley Jansen, Bartolo Colon, Kenta Maeda, Yuli Gurriel, Edinson Volquez, Julio Teheran, Jose Quintana and Addison Reed. In 2017, Katz was the 10th-highest-earning baseball agent, according to Forbes. Notable recent contracts negotiated Addison Reed (2018) 2 years, $16.5 million Kenley Jansen (2016) 5 years, $80 million Yulieski Gurriel (2016) 5 title: Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award text: American and National Leagues. The award's only tie occurred in the National League in 1979, when Keith Hernandez and Willie Stargell received an equal number of points. There have been 18 unanimous winners, who received all the first-place votes. The New York Yankees have the most winning players with 22, followed by the St. Louis Cardinals with 17 winners. The award has never been presented to a member of the following three teams: Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Mets, and Tampa Bay Rays. In recent decades, pitchers have rarely won the award. When Justin Verlander won the AL award in 2011, title: Bo McKinnis text: (first overall in 2007). In December 2015, McKinnis negotiated the largest contract in Major League Baseball history for a pitcher when David Price received a seven-year $217 million contract from the Boston Red Sox. This also tied the record for largest average salary ever received by any player at $31 million per year, tying with Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers. This contract is also the largest contract ever in the history of the Boston Red Sox franchise. In 2012, McKinnis became the first, and only, agent ever to represent both Cy Young Award winners in the same year. David title: Dominican Americans text: Uno, merengue hip-hop group; Anthony Romeo Santos, singer and songwriter; Rosanna Tavarez, Rita Indiana, singer and songwriter, singer and television host; Ivan Barias, music producer and songwriter. In September 2017, New York-based rapper Cardi B became the first person of Dominican Republic descent to reach number one in the history of the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart, since it was launched in 1958. Dominican Americans have made great strides in the field of baseball, the community's favored sport. Alex Rodriguez, New York-born, is the most well-known Dominican American in this field. He is the highest-paid player in Major League Baseball