Baseball Purist

Category: Money

  • Another Sign of a Dying Game: Soaring Baseball Valuations

    Another Sign of a Dying Game: Soaring Baseball Valuations

    Once again, the narrative of baseball depicted as a dying game in need of rule changes is upended as the valuations of MLB teams continues to soar.  The link to the Forbes article and full listing of MLB teams valuations below shows that baseball is far from a crisis.  You can read the article per…

  • A dying game?

    A dying game?

    The “game is dying” seems to be the basis for the need to change the game and the rules to make it appealing to a larger and younger fan base.  For this post, let’s briefly focus on the total revenue numbers from MLB for the past 20 years. As per the table below, except for…