[Daniel Meyer] The Atlanta Braves financial statements are publicly available and serve as a general guide for understanding the business of baseball. Any good accountant can move some decimals here and there, but these are a good starting ground.
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[Daniel Meyer] The Atlanta Braves financial statements are publicly available and serve as a general guide for understanding the business of baseball. Any good accountant can move some decimals here and there, but these are a good starting ground.
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The 3YearLetterman shoutout slayed me
The Dodgers really have reached a level of flexibility financially that is virtually unfair. And I don’t mean unfair in the “fold my arms and pout” kind of way, but a $414MM 2026 payroll is absolutely not achievable for most franchises. It’s going to be interesting to see what, if anything, is done about this moving forward in the sport.
“The billionaires can spend” crowd forget… they’re mostly billionaires because they make good financial decisions. I know that’s not a popular take, but it’s true.
Better enjoy baseball this year because it might be a while before we see it again following this World Series
You should post this in r/baseball as well
We’re soundly in tier 2 of spending, and could afford 1 maybe 2 of these Dodger contracts.
If you don’t like free market, unregulated capitalism, you should be on the owners side. The players union is pushing for a free market. Owners are pushing for regulation.
Also the players union isn’t like a union for dock and warehouse workers. We should stop treating them the same.
If a cap helps billionaires and hurts players but makes the sport better, IDGAF.
Low market teams should spend more and their needs to be a cap.
Seeing the profit explains why the Braves are buying players this year cs last
The Dodgers bankruptcy settlement in 2012 gives them the biggest dvantage of anyone in the league. Anybody saying “they’re following the rules” don’t mention that the rules are different for them. This is the only team that doesn’t have to contribute into revenue sharing while all 29 other clubs do. And who was the negotiator for the MLB in that settlement? None other than Rob Manfred.
He is a cancer to the game of baseball. He’s slowly killing the game that we all love.
Wow, this really puts it into perspective. 😳
Not saying this post is wrong but would simply point out that seeing the public financials is not the same thing as seeing the actual books, and there is an incredibly strong incentive to hide dollars here (to a degree – they wouldn’t want to show that they’re losing a bunch of money obvs).
In my local beer-league men’s softball league, there is a notorious team. They are all dudes who played in high school together like 15 years ago. They are great players, which is fine. But they choose to drop down to the lowest level (E League) just so they can win every year. They have been run out of several towns altogether and now essentially travel so they can enjoy the rush of defeating other groups of aging men who did not play high school or college ball, stare at computers all day, and just wanted to enjoy the game against like minded and like skilled competition.
This season we strongly considered just forfeiting as we got run ruled in the top half of the first inning. We stuck it out (technically the run rule doesn’t kick in until the fourth) and lost like 37-3. After that several of our players just stopped coming around.
The Dodgers need to look over at the NFL and realize that parity is what makes the league the strongest in the world. No one wants to be a tackling dummy. No one wants to watch the men’s travel softball team destroy lesser competition.
Eventually the game just… drifts away.