08-03-2023, 12:21 PM
(08-03-2023, 11:40 AM)ochocincos Wrote: It's my personal opinion that MLB needs to do revenue sharing and have a salary cap like NFL does.
It allows for these teams in smaller towns to be able to compete consistently with the big-city teams like LA, NYC, and Chicago.
I doubt those owners of the big teams would ever agree to such a thing though because that takes away their advantage.
They do revenue sharing, just not equal splits like the NFL.
48% of teams local revenue is gathered together and then split 30 ways.
They also get their split of the national revenue.
The local revenue split in 2018 was an esrimated $118m.
The national revenue split in 2018 was an estimated $91m.
Then you add 52% of the team's local revenue.
Revenue sharing is less of an issue for MLB compared to the huge need for a salary cap and salary floor. There is zero reason for 8 MLB teams to have payrolls under $100m (10 under $120m). There is also no reason for 5 teams to have payrolls over $240m including two over $275m.
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