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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
Are you trying to tell me that the Jays aren't getting a higher return on their investment when the team is consistently and selling out merchandise across the entire country and breaking tv ratings? Like hell they aren't, and to sustain that the team has to be willing to increase their payroll. On pure attendance loan, a spike in of 15,000 people per game with a modest average ticket price is an extra 65M along not counting the concessions and extra merchandise sales.
The problem at hand here is the Jays don't operate in isolation from their other sports ventures. The Jays are essentially currently funding all the NHL losses for the Rogers sports division.
Rogers will be the last corporation to ever own a MLB team, and that's a good thing because it simply doesn't work.
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Nope I'm saying that they will attempt to pocket the majority of that extra revenue, take an even larger return on investment, and then smile at shareholders when their share price goes up.
The Jays goal here is to build a competitive team, that can compete long term, with a payroll that probably falls somewhere between 10th and 15th in the major leagues.
Is that feasible to build a true contender? Probably not but that is what their corporate decision is going to be.
They will likely never go out and spend in the same range as the other big players. They will spend in that middle range around $150M and that is what they are going to budget.
It sucks as a fan & you don't have to be happy about it but IMO it's never going to change so expecting them to just up and spend $40M a year on players the wrong side of their peaks isn't going to happen.