Revenue Sharing Numbers

From 2005. But still, goes against any idea the Rays were receiving nearly a hundred mil from the bigger teams like some seem to believe.

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Does this include the Central Baseball Fund

Borass is always talking about?

the ghost of stokes, camp, lugo strikes TB-sept 2009

by CubFanRaysaddict on Nov 22, 2009 10:29 PM EST reply actions

Is that the claim?

Or are people claiming that the Rays are receiving $100+ million in total from MLB? Each team probably receives upwards of $30 million from MLB TV deals.

While $100 mil may be high, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Rays receive $75 million each year without doing anything on their own.

by tallyray on Nov 22, 2009 10:46 PM EST reply actions

The claim was that teams like the Yankees were paying out $100 mill to teams like the Devil Rays.

So in that sense, it’s close to the truth. The Yankees are the only team like the Yankees, but there are a lot of low-payroll teams like the Devil Rays. So while the Rays weren’t ‘Recieving $100 million from the Yankees’, the Yankees were paying close to $100 to low-payroll teams.

It actually makes me pretty angry that the Yankees were essentially paying the whole of the Devil Rays Payroll before Sternberg got here, and even still during his first year. Is this team’s budget so thin that they can’t afford to fork over more then a handfull of million dollars out of their own pockets for a team payroll?

I can't wait until we trade him for a reliever.

by kericr on Nov 23, 2009 11:11 AM EST up reply actions