![]() The biggest contract ever offered by a Japanese team to a player was the $61M for ten years that the Yomiuiri Giants (the NY Yankees of Japanese baseball in terms of revenues) offered to Hideki “Godzilla” Matsui, the year before he came to the states. However, Japanese companies generally want Japanese stars for advertizing purposes, so Japanese players make more money for endorsements than foreign players do. Īctually, North American players in Japan make more than Japanese players do. If you are really interested, you can go to and find out what every single player currently playing in NPB has made per year in Yen since about 2000. Alex Ramirez is making more than $5M this year for the Giants, because the yen is so strong against the dollar. The Giants have a reputation for being cheap in spite of vastly higher revenues than any other team in Japan, but they will shell out for the best. If you want to make the best money in Japan, be the best foreign player in the league playing for the Yomiuri Giants. They are the two most recent and best foreign stars ever, so I doubt anyone has made more.Īctually, that is not necessarily true. In his top earning seasons, Tuffy Rhodes made roughly between $4.5M and $5M, while Alex Cabrera made about $5M to $5.5M. The biggest Gaijin stars make good money. I don’t know if that’s for the rest of the season or pro-rated, but I would guess the former. Scott McClain, the 37 year old former Fresno Grizzly, signed a contract with the Hiroshima Carp that will pay him $210,000 (approximately, depends on exchange rates). ![]() One of my regular readers (yes, there are few of them) asked me what American players make in Japan. ![]()
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