For comparison, only the New York Mets and Boston Red Sox top even $50 million ... without deferrals that also included big bonuses — such as the $50 million Yoshinobu Yamamoto got in his $325-million ...

Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball’s all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan) — more even than Pete Rose's 4,256. He broke George Sisler’s single ...