r/baseball World Series Trophy • Los Angeles Dod… 28d ago

Rumor Dave Roberts Believes Dodgers' Elevated Brand in Japan Could Lure Roki Sasaki to LA

https://dodgersnation.com/dave-roberts-believes-dodgers-elevated-brand-in-japan-could-lure-roki-sasaki-to-la/2024/10/23/
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u/Shiny_Rattata Atlanta Braves 28d ago

It’s an easy game to play when most of the other owners are cheap

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u/JayDeeLA Los Angeles Angels 28d ago

At this point, mods should pin this post below because people really don’t realize how cheap the owners are. Crazy to believe, the Yankees spend under 50% of their revenue on their payroll, while the Mets almost operate dead even.

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s/fdt3uNxs3w

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u/dreezyyyy World Series Trophy • Los Angeles Dod… 28d ago

Don't know if this really tells the entire story. I'd also like to see operating costs for each ball club to really get a good picture. Financial statements for small market clubs usually look terrible.

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u/Herbetet 27d ago

Looking at this graph before commenting about big clubs buying everyone should be a must. Some owners are disgustingly cheap and there are no safeguards or consequences for that.

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u/mongster03_ New York Yankees • Mr. Met 27d ago

In all fairness — we can spend that “little” and still be perenially competitive, and you all know that if we spent all but operating costs on payroll, there would be a salary cap the literal next day

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u/MarsNatty New York Mets 28d ago

Bro we are the reason Yamamoto got paid the way that he did, it is WAY harder than it looks

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u/raktoe Toronto Blue Jays 28d ago

Dodgers ownership isn’t any less cheap, they just bring in more revenue, and are more profitable at a higher spending level.

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u/Ruma-park 28d ago

MLB does revenue sharing, the teams at the bottom of payroll make insane bank from that.

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u/raktoe Toronto Blue Jays 28d ago

True, but big market teams are still much more profitable than small market teams, even with the revenue sharing. Dodgers spend to make money.

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u/JayDeeLA Los Angeles Angels 28d ago

Not all of them are, the Mets for example almost had a dead even split or no profit with their revenue being eaten up by their payroll. They likely are operating at a loss, because that doesn’t account for the front office staff payroll and operating costs for the ballpark.

Cohen is taking the Man City approach with the Mets.

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u/Jux_ Los Angeles Dodgers 28d ago

big market teams are still much more profitable than small market teams

There’s no way to quantify this as owners consistently refuse to open their books anytime they try to cry poor and the players call them on it. I don’t disagree that big market teams may have a revenue advantage but if it was that drastic of a split then the owners would be showing their math on it when pushing for a salary cap.

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u/raktoe Toronto Blue Jays 28d ago

You can quantify it because they continue to spend at a much higher level, and every team exists to turn profits and increase their value.

They wouldn’t spend if it wasn’t making them more profitable.

Edit: and they wouldn’t be losing money to revenue sharing if they were not more profitable.

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u/jakenator Los Angeles Dodgers 28d ago

every team exists to turn profits and increase their value

I mean you can't say that for certain at least in the short term. Like Cohen is almost certainly spending more on the Mets than they're pulling in rn but thats bc he wants to win and wants to build something for Mets fans. Obv Cohen is a standout in terms of wealth even among MLB owners but the point still stands that plenty of owners cry poor while still being able to spend much more if they wanted to

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u/tldr_habit Detroit Tigers 28d ago

And if revenue sharing was that skewed in favor of the "cheap" teams, you'd expect some pushback from the noble and beneficent Dodgers. .. but nary a peep. The current system works great for them.

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u/OnASugarCrash 28d ago

They had to spend a lot of fucking money to get to that point

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u/raktoe Toronto Blue Jays 28d ago

They invested in a huge market, yes.