MLB Revenue

by lions1 on Oct 14, 2009 6:01 PM EDT Comment 4 comments

Does anyone know where I could find the baseball industry's 2009 revenue (or expected revenue), as well as each individual team's revenue? Also, does anyone happen to know what percentage of that revenue was used towards MLB player's salaries or minor league player's salaries and bonuses? I am really interested to see which teams are pocketing money from revenue sharing and not reinvesting that money into their minor league systems like they are supposed to do (or even investing in their major league systems).

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Not a chance

MLB teams keep that guarded closely under lock and key. The best you will find is Forbes or someone else estimating those numbers.

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by Trenchtown on Oct 14, 2009 7:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Forbes' numbers

are here.

Marlins lead the pack with $43M estimated net income.

MLB, of course, hotly contests the idea that the owners aren’t going broke because the greedy players are taking all their money. Between Forbes and the owners, I know which one I’m more likely to trust…

by ManConley on Oct 15, 2009 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, it's a private industry

It has no reason to release it’s numbers. That’s why the Packers (publicly owned team) are such a fascinating organization: they release all of their financial records.

by Mets2k9 on Oct 14, 2009 8:57 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs