Highest-paid MLB relief pitchers and closers for 2025: Top salaries

Highest-paid MLB relief pitchers and closers for 2025: Top salaries

Josh Hader, a five-time All-Star and three-time Trevor Hoffman NL Reliever of the Year Award winner, came up just short of breaking the record for the largest contract for a relief pitcher. Instead, he will settle for being the highest-paid reliever in 2025. Hader and theHouston Astrosagreed to a $95 million deal over the winter.Edwin Diaz's $102 million deal with the New York Metsstill stands as the biggest contract ever given to a reliever. Hader's deal will pay him $19 million this season. Diaz will earn $18.3 million in present-day value because of deferred payments. Hader's deal with Houston also includes a full no-trade clause with no money deferred and a $1 million bonus if he wins the Mariano Rivera Award as the AL's best relief pitcher. (In present-day value calculated by MLB) Josh Hader, Astros:  $19,000,000 Edwin Diaz, Mets: $18,331,014 Raisel Iglesias,Braves: $16,000,000 Ryan Pressly, Cubs: $14,100,000 Kirby Yates, Dodgers: $13,000,000 Tanner Scott, Dodgers:  $ 12,141,009 Taylor Rogers, Reds:  $12,000,000 Rafael Montero, Astros: $11,500,000 A.J. Minter, Mets: $11,000,000 Aroldis Chapman,Red Sox: $10,750,000 2025 MLB SALARIES:Database of every player who made the Opening Day roster The figures, compiled by USA TODAY, are calculated by the MLB Labor Relations Department of the present-day value of contracts including deferrals and signing bonuses. The figures by MLB and distributed to all teams are intended to reflect the cash obligations in any given year. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Highest-paid MLB relief pitchers and closers for 2025: Top salaries

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Highest-paid MLB relief pitchers and closers for 2025: Top salaries Josh Hader, a five-time All-Star and three-time Trevor Hoffman NL Reliev...

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By The Numbers: A look at India great Virat Kohli's test career

By The Numbers: A look at India great Virat Kohli's test career

Test cricket has lost its biggest star withVirat Kohli's retirementfrom the longer format. The India great — contemporary cricket's version of Lionel Messi in soccer — put up some staggering numbers across his test career as the beacon of a team followed by 1.4 billion people. Here's a flavor of those stats over his 14-year test career: ___ 7 The number of double-hundreds made by Kohli in tests, the most by an India player and the fourth most in test history. Six of them came in an extraordinary 18-month, 33-innings spell from July 2016 to December 2017 — a period in which he was the No. 1 batter in the format. 30 The number of test centuries made by Kohli — only 14 players have more. He also had 31 half-centuries. 46.85 Kohli's batting average in tests. 123 The number of test appearances made by Kohli. He was captain in 68 tests, winning 40 of them — the most for an Indian captain and fourth overall in test cricket. 254 Kohli's highest test score, made against South Africa in Pune, India, in October 2019. He finished the innings not out and it was the last of his double centuries. 9,230 The number of test runs made by Kohli, which ranks him fourth on the all-time list of India players behind fellow greats Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar. 271 million The number of followers Kohli has on Instagram. ___ AP cricket:https://apnews.com/hub/cricket

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By The Numbers: A look at India great Virat Kohli's test career Test cricket has lost its biggest star withVirat Kohli's retirementf...

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PSG defender Achraf Hakimi named top African player in France league

PSG defender Achraf Hakimi named top African player in France league

PSG defender Achraf Hakimi has been voted the top African player in the French league after helping his club win a record-extending 13th Ligue 1 title and reach the Champions League final. The 26-year-old Moroccan won the the Marc-Vivien Foe award ahead of Nice forward Evann Guessand, from Ivory Coast, and Senegalese midfielder Habib Diarra, who plays for Strasbourg. The prize is named after the late Foe, the popular Cameroon player and two-time African champion who collapsed and died on a field in France in 2003 while playing for his country. Hakimi, regarded as one of the best right-backs in the world,scored last week as PSG defeated Arsenal 2-1in the second leg of their Champions League semifinal. He is the second defender to win the award after Congolese player Chancel Mbemba in 2023. He's also the fourth Moroccan, following Marouane Chamakh in 2009, Younès Belhanda in 2012 and Sofiane Boufal in 2016. PSG is hoping for its first-ever treble this season. In addition to the Champions League final against Inter Milan on May 31, it faces Reims the week before in the French Cup final. Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang won the honor in 2024. ___ AP soccer:https://apnews.com/hub/soccer

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PSG defender Achraf Hakimi named top African player in France league

PSG defender Achraf Hakimi named top African player in France league PSG defender Achraf Hakimi has been voted the top African player in the...

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U.S. and China agree to major 90-day easing of tariffs as talks progress

U.S. and China agree to major 90-day easing of tariffs as talks progress

The U.S. and China have agreed to a temporary but significant easing of the tariffs imposed over the last couple months, the country's said in a joint statement shared by the White House, heralding significant success in trade negotiations that ramped up over the weekend. In the joint statement released early Monday morning, the two sides said they had agreed thatongoing "discussionshave the potential to address the concerns of each side in their economic and trade relationship," and that "moving forward in the spirit of mutual opening, continued communication, cooperation, and mutual respect," both parties had committed to a 90-day suspension of most of the levies imposed since early April. "We have reached an agreement on a 90-day pause," U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters in Geneva, Switzerland, where he spent the weekend in meetings with Chinese counterparts. He said Washington and Beijing would reduce their reciprocal tariffs by 115 percentage points for three months to give the negotiations room to move forward. Bessent said the temporary reductions would effectively reduce the level of U.S. tariffs still in place on Chinese goods to about 30%, while China was reducing its levies on American imports to 10%. The White House's imposition of levies amounting to some 145% on all goods imported from China, and Beijing's retaliatory tariffs of 125% on American imports, had cast a long shadow over global financial markets as the world's two biggest economies spent the early spring appearing to entrench in a trade war. "Both countries represented their national interest very well," Bessent said at the Monday news conference in Geneva, along with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, according to the Reuters news agency. "We both have an interest in balanced trade, the U.S. will continue moving towards that." Commodities and currency markets in Asia and beyond were buoyed significantly on the news of a breakthrough in the negotiations on Monday. Speaking on Sunday, Bessent said there had been "substantial progress" in the sensitive talks with Chinese counterparts in Geneva, while Greer suggested an agreement had been reached but offered no hint at the details. "It's important to understand how quickly we were able to come to agreement, which reflects that perhaps the differences were not so large as far as maybe thought," Greer told reporters on Sunday. Newly discovered vintage photos reveal San Francisco mystery Josh's mom on making a move What will Pope Leo XIV mean for the Church?

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US Trade Representative Greer says US and China to roll back most tariffs

US Trade Representative Greer says US and China to roll back most tariffs

GENEVA (AP) — U.S. and Chinese officials said Monday they had reached a deal to roll back most of their recenttariffsand call a 90-day pause to keep talking to resolve their trade disputes. Stock markets rose sharply as the globe's two major economic powers took a step back from a clash that has unsettled the global economy. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the U.S. agreed to drop its 145% tariff rate on Chinese goods by 115 percentage points to 30%, while China agreed to lower its rate on U.S. goods by the same amount to 10%. Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the tariff reductions at a news conference in Geneva. They said the two sides had set up consultations to continue discussing their trade issues. Trumplast month raised U.S. tariffs on Chinato a combined 145%and China retaliated by hitting American imports with a 125% levy. Tariffs that high essentially amount to the two countries boycotting each other's products, disrupting trade that last year topped $660 billion. The announcement by the U.S. and China sent shares surging, with U.S. futures jumping more than 2%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index surged nearly 3% and benchmarks in Germany and France were both up 0.7%

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US Trade Representative Greer says US and China to roll back most tariffs GENEVA (AP) — U.S. and Chinese officials said Monday they had reac...

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