As the number of long-term contracts and contract extensions increases, teams lock themselves into payroll obligations well into the future. With some help from Cot's Baseball Contracts, let's take a look at the longest current contracts for all 30 teams…
Signed Through 2023
- Reds: Joey Votto
Signed Through 2021
- Angels: Albert Pujols
Signed Through 2020
- Brewers: Ryan Braun
- Rockies: Troy Tulowitzki
- Tigers: Prince Fielder
Signed Through 2019
- Dodgers: Matt Kemp
- Nationals: Ryan Zimmerman
Signed Through 2018
- Red Sox: Adrian Gonzalez
- Orioles: Adam Jones
- Twins: Joe Mauer
Signed Through 2017
- Cardinals: Yadier Molina
- Diamondbacks: Miguel Montero
- Giants: Matt Cain and Madison Bumgarner
- Marlins: Jose Reyes
- Pirates: Andrew McCutchen
- Rangers: Ian Kinsler and Yu Darvish
- Yankees: Alex Rodriguez
Signed Through 2016
- Cubs: Gerardo Concepcion
- Indians: Carlos Santana
- Mets: Jonathon Niese
- Padres: Cameron Maybin
- Phillies: Ryan Howard
- Rays: Matt Moore
- Royals: Salvador Perez
- White Sox: John Danks
Signed Through 2015
- Athletics: Yoenis Cespedes
- Blue Jays: Jose Bautista and Ricky Romero
- Braves: Dan Uggla
- Mariners: Danny Hultzen
Signed Through 2013
- Astros: Wandy Rodriguez
Nice.
what about cc sabathia?
Arod is signed for longer and they only did one player per team.
Carlos Gonzales?
Evan Longoria?
in order to eliminate bias and speculation, Ben didn’t take into account club options, even if they are near locks to be picked up.
without looking at specifics, longoria’s contract has a bunch of club options at the end of it, which weren’t factored in.
Where’s Matt Holiday? He’s signed until 2016 by the Cardinals.
The list is the single longest contract held by every team. Holliday is signed through 2016 but the Cardinals recently signed Molina through 2017.
I totally forgot about the Cubs signing Concepcion. Not the best numbers in A ball.
Perfectly fine with Cain and Bum being our longest contracts!
Where’s (my favorite player)? I know he’s signed (into infinity and beyond)!
Headline: Longest Current Contract (Singular) By Team
Shouldn’t the Mets rep be Bonilla?
Tee hee.
He had a personal services contract as recall for over a decade.. Ramirez with Boston had one.. Pujols with Anaheim has one with Anaheim after his deal expires..
They just banned them, so no more deals to shake hands and get 1-2m bucks a season I reckon’.
Crawford & Lackey are long term contracts not mentioned that help their team the most by being on the disabled list.
You fail at trying to be funny. Crawford has had 1 bad year in his whole career!
2 now, Ptk.
Cliff Lee is signed through 2015.
So… Howard is signed longer (2016)
I’ve never seen so many people fail to grasp a fairly simple concept…
haha I love how the Cubs and Mariners are guys I’ve never even heard of
You seriously have no idea who Danny Hultzen is? Arguably the best LHSP in the minors.
Didn’t the Cubs sign Jorge Soler for like 8 or 9 years?