Early Projections Have Bengals Picking Top 5 Again In Next Years Draft

[muskiesfan]

(05-11-2021, 01:33 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: At least the Pirates do have the small market angle to play.

Fwiw, here's the 5 highest TV deals (per year) in the MLB:

-Dodgers @ 239 million
-Angels @ 138 million
-White Sox @ 120 million
-Yankees @ 115 million
-Red Sox @ 104 million

And here's the Pirates:

Pirates @ 44 million (24th in the league)

In the NFL all of these numbers are equally shared.

PS In case you wondering...  Reds @ 48 million

Source: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/lets-update-the-estimated-local-tv-revenue-for-mlb-teams/

While I somewhat agree, MLB also has revenue sharing. In 2018, each MLB team received $118m from the 48% local revenues that are shared plus another $91m per team from national revenues. So each team received $209m from revenue sharing in 2018 which does not include the money they get to keep to themselves from local revenues. That's why there's an issue when teams like the Pirates continuing with a yearly payroll between $50-80m causes an issue.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Revenue_sharing