clayton kershaw is the highest paid baseball player in the major leagues.
clayton kershaw is the highest paid baseball player in the major leagues.
who is the highest paid baseball player in the major leagues?
clayton kershaw
on may 4, he struck out twelve mets becoming the giants franchise record holder for the number of games pitched with 10 or more strikeouts with 29, surpassing hall of fame "first five" inaugural member christy mathewson. mathewson accumulated his 28 ten-plus-strikeout games in 551 starts over seventeen seasons of pitching for the giants; lincecum collected his 29 in 129 starts over five seasons. on may 21, he threw his 8th career complete game and his 5th career shutout against the oakland athletics. lincecum almost threw his first no-hitter on april 18, giving up his first hit after 6 1/3 innings. on june 6, he recorded his 1,000th career strikeout against the washington nationals, striking out jerry hairston, jr.. he accomplished this during his fifth year in the major leagues, becoming only the eighth pitcher in history to do so. he is the second player ever to have 1,127 strikeouts by his 5th season in the major leagues. he was only 29 strikeouts short of passing tom seaver for having the most strikeouts in the first five seasons as a major league baseball player, which was 1,155. in 2011, los angeles dodgers ace clayton kershaw and lincecum matched up four times. in those four games the scores were 2–1, 1–0, 2–1, 2–1, all in the dodgers' favor. on september 10, 2011, they struck out a combined 20 batters.
tim lincecum
in november 1883, dunlap signed a contract to play for the st. louis maroons in the new union association. he was the biggest star lured to the new league. his contract paid dunlap a salary of $3,400 (including $1,000 paid in advance), the highest salary paid to any baseball player at that time. he remained the highest paid baseball player every year from 1884 to 1889.
fred dunlap