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Originally Posted by Jason14h
TB made $300 million in revenue in 2024 . Almost every team makes $300+ million in revenue .
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...teams-in-2010/
Their payroll is a joke and their owner pockets the money . Here’s every teams payroll
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...aseball-teams/
LA is one of the few teams that plays to win va line their pockets . The Yankees have complained about this for years paying luxury tax to “have nots” who just line their pockets
As long as MLB allows teams to just pocket money and not spend there’s way more incentive to field a 150 million team and take your chance in the playoffs (as championships have shown over the past 15 years) vs spend $250-300 million and win 5 extra regular season games
The Red Sox are a perfect example . They realized it is better business spending $150/$200 million and winning 90 games then $250 for a marginally better chance in tbe playoffs
This is the biggest issue that allows a LA to accumulate so many stars . Team CAN relatively compete with LA / as a league outbid them on individual players . They are mostly choosing not too to pad their pockets
Here is the % spend on payroll from last year . Obviously not perfect as the Jays for example fudge the broadcasting revenue to be tax effective for Rogers , and I’m sure there’s lots of other accounting tricks , but gives a general idea
https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/co...ast/?rdt=51145 |
Yup, I posted The Score version of that a little earlier. One thing about it is its team payroll. There are other fixed and variable cost factors such as operating of the franchise not taken into account (ie: staff at Rogers centre). Though you understand the biggest cost is likely the players. So I don’t believe the lower teams are hiding hundreds of millions as that may lead us to believe. For instance they could be saving to reinvest like Tampa has done for the new stadium about to be built.