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Top 5 Highest Paid Baseball Players

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    FBN’s Gerri Willis on the highest paid baseball players of 2012.

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-- night out you probably missed opening day for Major League Baseball.

It was in the wee hours of Wednesday morning because the game.

Between the Seattle Mariners and the Oakland -- -- was played in Japan upset upsetting many fans mean one of them.

Opening day in this country is next -- -- with tonight's top five highest paid baseball players.

-- -- Number five Johan Santana with the New York Mets the two time Cy Young winner who missed the entire 2011 season after -- shoulder surgery.

We'll make nearly 24 and a half million dollars this year.

Number four Ichiro Suzuki with the Mariners is in the final year of his contract and number three Yankee captain Derek cheater.

Even after taking a major pay cut he will still earn 25 million dollars this year and he's the top endorser in the game earning nine million dollars annually.

And number 22009.

In VP Joe Mauer of the Minnesota Twins will take on 20/20 seven million dollars -- can -- say that I'm so jealous.

He takes some -- -- million dollars this year and I don't want.

Highest paid player in -- based all you know what's Alex Rodriguez from the Yankees.

If current 32 million dollars.

I think at least because according to Forbes yankees will pay him millions more he reaches certain home run targets gets more -- I wonder if any of these guys -- that mega million tickets -- need to do.

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