how much are professional baseball players paid
Jul 12, 2016. Baseball players make as little as $18,500 to play in an All-Star Game, with some making as much as $100,000 from All Star contract clauses. The pay to play in an All-Star Game would be great for a normal human.
Average MLB player salaries broke the $3 million-a-year mark for the first time in 2010. Yankees players had the highest average annual salary in 2012 at $6,186,321, while players on the Oakland Athletics had the lowest average salary at $1,845,750. These salaries only show how much the players made on the field.