The highest-paid baseball player in 2025 is Juan Soto of the New York Mets. He signed a 15-year, $765 million contract, the largest deal in professional sports history, with a salary of $61.88 million for the 2025 season
. While Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers has a historic 10-year, $700 million contract and an average annual salary of $70 million, much of Ohtani's salary is deferred, reducing his present-day earnings to about $28 million in 2025, making him the 18th highest-paid player by present value
. Therefore, Juan Soto currently holds the top spot as the highest-paid MLB player in terms of actual salary received in 2025.
