There are two dozen players making more than $25 million for the 2022 Major League Baseball season, and some of them are much more valuable than others.
Pretty much everyone on the list is a multiple-time All-Star who also happened to have an excellent season or two right before signing a huge deal. Between injury, age and general regression, some of these guys would be lucky to get $10 million on the open market right now, let alone $25 million. But there are also quite a few who are arguably still being underpaid.
These 24 players have been broken into seven tiers, with the ranking philosophy based on the following question: How excited/mortified would you be if you woke up to the news of your favorite team signing this player to a one-year, $25 million deal for the rest of this season?