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Giancarlo Stanton's Eye-Popping Contract by the Numbers

The Miami Marlins and slugger Giancarlo Stanton signed the richest sports contract in North American history Wednesday, a whopping $325 million over 13 years. The overall value is staggering, but breaking it down further shows even more eye-popping numbers.

The contract is complex and the Marlins are not necessarily on the hook for the entire amount. According to NBCSports and ESPN, the contract will pay Stanton $6.5 million in 2015, $9 million in 2016, and $14.5 million in 2017. He would then earn $77 million over the next three seasons before having the ability to opt-out of his contract after 2020, when he would be 31-years-old.

That puts the Marlins on the hook for $107 million of the deal over the first six seasons, or roughly $17.83 million per season. The final seven seasons work out to roughly $218 million, assuming Stanton is still with the Marlins, or roughly $31.14 million a year through the end of the deal.

The overall deal, works out to paying Stanton $25 million a year or roughly $2.083 million per month. The contract breaks down to approximately $69,444.43 per day in an average 30-day-month, roughly $2,893.52 per hour.

For comparison, the average median income in 2012 was $51,017, according to CNN.com. In addition, based on Stanton’s current home run output (30.8 per season), Stanton is expected to hit 400 home runs over the next 13 years. Based on that output, Stanton will get paid $812,500 per home run through the length of the contract.

Put another way, according to Andrew Brandt of ESPN, the fully guaranteed $325 million contract for Stanton is equal to the guaranteed money for Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Andrew Luck, Drew Brees, Phillip Rivers, and J.J. Watt combined plus about $20 million.

So what could Stanton buy with his rich new contract? According to the Washington Post, 65 million $5 footlongs from Subway, 232.1 million king-size Kit-Kat bars, 9.3 million cats (if he adopted them from the Humane Society of Miami. According to USAToday, he could film Waterworld 1.88 times, purchase 382,803 iPhone 6 pluses (64 gb no contract), buy 113,517,289 gallons of gas, or take 1,400 trips on Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft.

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