Highest Paid Baseball Player 2024. Listing the top salaries, payroll, cash, earnings, contracts, and bonuses, for all active mlb players. Ohtani captured his second mvp award in 2023.

Bill streicher, usa today sports. The mets, followed by the new york yankees ($303 million), payroll is three times more than the six franchises in baseball, and nearly $245 million more than the oakland a’s.