The twenty most expensive contracts in MLB history?

What are they? Is there a database that lists contracts by total dollar amount that the team is committing to paying?

We could list them anecdotally, of course, and I’ll take it if that’s all you can offer, but I’d like to find an actual list.

Go to Wikipedia, and put in “largest sports contracts”. Pick out the baseball ones.

Pretty easy. Twenty of the top 25 are baseball.

That article is described as “outdated.”

This list appears accurate up to just before Josh Hamilton’s contract, which is not among the top full value contracts but should be third in per year salary. (It includes Zack Greinke’s, and so was updated at some point this offseason.)

OK, that list makes it official. Alex Rodriguez is the most overpaid person in the history of Western Civilization.