MLB’s thirty teams are likely to suspend revenue-sharing for the 2020 season, according to Ken Rosenthal and Even Drellich of The Athletic (subscription link).
Whether and how the 2020 season will resume remains to be seen, but it’s now a certainty that fans won’t be in the seats when it does. And any hopes for a return of fans this year — at least in significant numbers — seem rather optimistic, though surely some jurisdictions will handle things quite differently than others.
The typical sharing of 48% of gameday revenue really won’t be possible in a season in which there likely won’t be any to pass around. Rather than trying to distribute whatever might otherwise come within the purview of the program, it’s expected to be scrapped altogether.
The MLB Players Association has already agreed to allow modification of revenue-sharing rules for 2020 and 2021. It’s obviously too soon to know what plans might be proposed for the latter campaign.
Do they share TV kickbacks for mlb.tv or is that tied to viewership for specific games?
Blake Snell crying about not gettin full pay and putting his life on the line while kids and senior stock shelves in department stores has ruined this baseball season, it will not be played so I wouldn’t worry about those questions too much, I’m all for players gettin a huge chunk of the pie but now is not the time to cry on your 3000$ computer streaming setup while 20+ million Americans are out of work #fireblakesnell
that’s so wrong! why aren’t fighting the biggest corporations that are crying of their profit reduction and asking for hand-outs from my taxes?
It’s actually accurate. Snell arguing for the players like they’re taking care of Covid patients sounds idiotic. I’m not excusing the owners, but Snell sounded like a moron for sure. Lots of people are back working and “risking their health”. At least MLB has more power, money, and medical experts than an average Joe. So they’ll be fine.
or the over 20000 churches doing the same.
ffs, catholic church and the sbc are worth billions, if not trillions, of dollars, yet over 12000 catholic churches got free money, several thousand sbc churches as well (despite the fact almost none of them do a thing for people outside their bubble. well, besides hurt everyone smart enough not to fall for their junk).
yet, no outrage from you types
Risking their health……this is the biggest joke of a pandemic. We all better get use to following green arrows and red x’s on aisles of stores. I’m sick of people treating this like it’s an automatic death sentence.
The problem is there nothing typical about this disease and by the time you realize you have it, you’ve likely exposed countless others who do the same. Thus the choice really is limited until a cure or at least a treatment plan that works is developed: either do nothing and let the disease affect everyone and burn itself out or a national full stay at home plan which includes social distancing for essential out of home activities. Unfortunately, the former in my view is really not an option and the latter will never work in the U.S with 50 states and people hiding behind the constitution which when drafted a pandemic situation like today was not envisioned (also it can be changed and has been as otherwise for example women would not have the right to vote) .
Hiding behind the Constitution? What a chickenshit thing to say. In yes when the founders wrote the Constitution they were well aware of pandemic. More so than any of you are
@louie. U do realize measles, typhoid fever, measles, and bubonic plague all predated the colonization of us, let alone writing of constitution by 1000 yrs. And the constitution has been added too, but it’s only been changed once when the 21st amendment was passed, making 18th amendment null and void.
parx How are the players the bad guys here? They should stand their ground. By playing they are taking all the risk not the owners. I get not wanting to hear about a struggle between billionaires and millionaires over money right now but I don’t get siding with the owners here.
It’s their job…
Yes it’s their job, and ppl expect to get paid for doing their job.
Yeah those poor baseball players they’re not gonna get pay. Such a sad pathetic poor lot of people. We should start some kind of charity for them
Then don’t play!
Report: rays file for chapter 11, marlins to follow
Buy ’em both for a buck……..
LOL!!
Derek Jeter would never financially recover from this(Tiger King)
Of course Carole [CENSORED] Baskins was behind the whole thing!
it would be good if there are no Walfare teams this year.
Is Walfare subsidized by Walmart instead of the govt? Asking for a friend.
Social distance hi-five to you!
Waste of time reading posts here
hope the revenue sharing is done by actual revenue and not by market size. and receiving teams should be required spend it on roster improvement. and creat a lower threshold.
It is ridiculous that teams roll out payrolls that are less than their revenue sharing proceeds.
Agreed, and even more ridiculous that most fan bases are happy when they spend less
They should but requiring teams to spend is a salary cap.
They need to implement a salary cap and floor. It’s kind of ridiculous that there isn’t and they allow over 100 million dollars in payroll differences.
there shouldn’t be a hard cap, and if there is it needs to be above the current lux tax. they shouldnt punish teams for rewarding deserving players and adding talent.
100% agree with the goat. Even a 140M floor 160 ceiling would increase salaries.
Players get guaranteed contracts in exchange for no salary cap
No, that is a salary floor. A true cap will not allow teams to spend over a certain threshold. There should be some sort of salary floor in place for all teams (especially those who receive revenue sharing) to ensure teams are attempting to field a competitive team (or at least look like they are). Making profit off of revenue sharing is ludicrous.
lower and upper threshold with heavy penalties for any team going over/under the thresholds.
As far as making it harder big pocket teams to buy World Series, baseball is doing a great job.
Take away some sort of penalty for having five times the payrolls as other teams and you’d have big market teams winning the World Series four out of every five years.
That is not necessarily true. Look at the NHL. I do not see the Maple Leafs and Rangers ( the most profitable teams in the sport) winning Stanley Cups.
Bad example as the NHL has a hard cap. So the Maple Leafs and Rangers have no other option than to pocket their profits…they can’t invest the overage in great players like you can in MLB.
Nearly every NHL team spends up to the cap each year or within $3-$5M of it (so they can add players if they are making a run). The difference in the lowest vs highest team payroll in MLB is close to $200M right now, which is ridiculous!
absolutely agree.
thank goodness. lets hope it stays this way.
What benefit is there to no revenue sharing? You must be a fan of a large market team, because this is terrible for small market clubs.
This is the worst take you could possibly ever have
Baseball wouldn’t exist without Rev sharing
I am sure Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs and Dodgers are sick of subsidizing the weak sisters of MLB like the Rays, A’s and Marlins.
Salary caps would end that none sense.
Well thats the thing, they shouldnt be mad bc w/out them they have no product to sell themselves (MLB) (Trust me there still doing fine in the end)
There needs to be a floor to press those teams into spending the money rather than pocketing it (100 mill)
You cant depend on owners or players to ever make this happen b/c there only looking after themselves-EvenYankees /Dodger owners would probably rather see TB pocket the money than use it against them and inflate the FA market a little, its a NO WIN …..
And we are looking in the wrong direction here………
The next strike needs to be from the Fans or we will never get the product we deserve (pay for) – The Hell with the players hell with the owners, WE are the LOSERS here
And the Pirates have just traded anyone making more than minimum.
I have always supported a salary cap and a salary floor. Look at a team like the Orioles. They need that floor to get that roster better. Right now, they cannot draw flies to Camden Yards ( unless the Yankees or Red Sox are in town). They look like Vanderbilt Football waiting for other SEC teams and their fans ( like those will crush them like Alabama, LSU, Florida and Georgia) to visit Nashville
There’s so many ways to make a cap/floor work that would add up to a win/win for the league and the players.
JD I would love to think your right but the reality is the owners would never go for it and the players dont care (They lobby for more short term/selfish things) when at the table…..(They hardly ever think Macro or about the fans when putting pen to paper)-
Who would Benefit – Yes the fans 100%, but the motivating driving forces arent the ones with seats at the table, this is my big fear
You would think/hope there was a more steadier hand at the wheel gauging the macro in all this but I just dont think thats the case here sadly
It is the players that do not want a salary cap. This is a fact. Owners would embrace it.
You think the fact that nobody in their right mind wants to live or play in a rathole like Baltimore has anything to do with it?
Exactly. They could sign Free Agents, add prospects to a deal that included taking on bad contracts, etc.
I’ve said it before; expect DRASTIC revisions to the Revenue Sharing formula in the next CBA. The richer owners want it; more importantly the MLBPA wants it. And consider it from their perspective. While it might be laudadtory that the Rays and A’s do what they do with their limitations, the players aren’t seeing any of it.
Any of what? The A’s were phased out of Revenue Sharing last year.
120 mill floor.
180 mill cap.
Over or under results in draft pick loss and ifa money loss. Cap aav to 20mill or have a max contract scale like the NBA does.
In exchange mlb agrees to increase wages for minor leaguers and being forced to spend at least 120 mill.
A ball gets 60k
AA ball gets 80k
AAA get 100k
Well I would have said the cap was more realistic to be 225 pre Covid but post those numbers seem fair-
We have No clue how the moneys going to shake out the next 3-5 yrs….Makes horrible timing for a CBA
I like your set pay escalations for the minors, solid post
120 floor
220 soft cap
it will NEVER happen. Any time a salary cap gets suggested the players union shuts down. That’s what the entire 1994 strike was over. Players want to get as much as they can
No need for salary floor or cap.
Keep revenue sharing pay-in the same in future years.
Revenue sharing payout is tied to payroll, with teams eligible for a weekly disbursement of 1/2 of that week’s mlb player payroll only, up to a certain capped dollar amount.
If your payroll is small you just don’t get much. Has the functional effect of making carrying a larger payroll affordable for small markets which was the original justification anyways.
Left over money reverts to MiLB player pension and health benefits after the season
Totally eliminate revenue sharing, those poor billionaires cant afford it. Oh wait the recipients are billionaires, too. So eliminate revenue sharing and let the teams that cant afford a $100m payroll go under. If u cant support $100m payroll, u obviously dont have a solid fanbase and cant field a competitive team, so bye bye
I am sure all of those billionaire owners would be fine with baseball contracting. Every team lost is a loss of hundreds of millions per year for mlb. I mean, it’s not like they are trying to expand, right? No T.V. revenue coming from Florida anymore? Sure. That wouldn’t bother billionaires.
Players union will never consider a salary cap. Everytime owners suggest it, MLBPA walks out. It’s a strikable conversation
Good a cheap team like the pirates doesn’t deserve anything