top baseball player salariesWhat are the salaries of the top baseball players?

What about US footballers, and basketballers?
By this I mean the money they get purely from playing, excluding sponsorship deals and such.
Baseball Top 5:
Alex Rodriguez (NYY - $33m/year)
C.C. Sabathia (NYY - approximately $24.25m/year)
Derek Jeter (NYY - $22.6m/year)
马克 Teixeira (NYY - $20.625m/year)

Football Top Player (only #1, and as of 2009, sorry):
Philip Rivers (SD - approximately $25.5m/year)
WAIT - DON'T YOU MEAN SOCCER?
MLS-wise, the highest would be David Beckham at top baseball player salaries$6.5m/year

Basketball Top Player (only #1, sorry):
Kobe Bryant (LAL - approximately $24.8m/year)

Sorry about my several shortenings.
Oh, for baseball, I only did top four. Sorry about that. Number 5 would be Johan Santana.

A-Rod's huge contract, he signed for over $200 million over 10 years, originally with the Texas Rangers in 2001, but eventually he got traded to the New York Yankees after the 2003 season, and they probatop baseball player salariesbly picked up what was left.
I think joe mauer makes the second most in baseball. They said that if he batted an average of four times per game he would make 40 thousand per at bat.
actually arods salary is $33M a year.
arod makes alot
A-Rod makes 33 mil a season
a-rod is the highest paid mlb player. he makes over $25 million a season just through his contract with the yankees.