Highest paid baseball player
- WHO
- Max Scherzer
- WHAT
- 43,333,333 US dollar(s)
- WHERE
- United States (New York)
- WHEN
- November 2021
The highest-paid baseball player is Max Scherzer (USA), a pitcher with the New York Mets. In November 2021, Scherzer signed a three-year deal worth $130,000,000, earning him a salary of $43.3 million per year.
Scherzer is a three-time winner of the prestigious Cy Young award (given to the best pitcher in Major League Baseball) and has made the all-star team eight times.