Who Makes The Most

TIE 16
VLADIMIR GUERRERO
Baseball, Los Angeles Angels

$15.25 MILLION
The Dominican star is in the final season of his backloaded five-year, $70 million deal. The Angels can pick up his option year for $15 million.

TIE 16
MAGGLIO ORDOÑEZ
Baseball, Detroit Tigers

$15.25 MILLION
International incident? The slugger's construction firm in his native Venezuela reportedly has ties with the leftist government.

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ARAMIS RAMIREZ
Baseball, Chicago Cubs

$14.25 MILLION
The highest-paid Cubs—the Dominican Ramirez, Alfonso Soriano and Zambrano—will earn $47 million in '08, more than a third of the team's payroll.

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JORGE POSADA
Baseball, New York Yankees

$14.1 MILLION
The Puerto Rican--born catcher lends his name to Jorge Cabernet ($14 a bottle) to fund research into a birth defect that afflicts his son, Jorge Jr.

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ALFONSO SORIANO
Baseball, Chicago Cubs

$13.75 MILLION
A Dominican who speaks some Japanese, Soriano will earn $18 million a season over the last five years of his eight-year deal, which runs through 2014.