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Vernon Wells:

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• Team: Los Angeles Angels
  
• Overall earnings: $24.44 million
  

Sometimes, you get rich by being at the right place at the right time. For Vernon Wells, that place was the Toronto Blue Jays in 2006. Underperformance and injuries derailed his superstar trajectory, but that didn't change the fact that Wells had already been handsomely paid for hitting a baseball pretty well at one time. He will now make more than $24 million this year from the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim plus $250,000 in endorsements.