Thats thanks to Gunnar Hendersons arrival, Adley Rutschmans continued improvement behind the plate and Cedric Mullins general awesomeness. Starting pitcher Shintaro Fujinami was the big offseason acquisition and hes expected to take the bump every six days as he transitions from Japan which should be the only time you watch the As unless Shea Langliers or Ramon Laureano are on your fantasy team. Methodology | Sportico calculated each MLB teams 2021 value based on publicly available information, financial records and interviews with team insiders. Pencil Los Angeles in for another 100-win season. [1] Statistics used in the table are from the United States Census Bureau's 2009 Metropolitan Statistical Area estimates and the Canada 2006 Census' 2009 projection. Some of the values above don't necessarily represent what a team receives. There is continuous action, and you have to have some form of revenue generation, ideally without having to turn away from the live action. Each metro area includes all revenue for that area, i.e. Ive excluded my hometown Toronto Blue Jays due to differences in culture and currency. The funny thing is, those owners have had it so good for years in the public eye. Teams are brands, and the longer and more established that brand is, the greater its acceptance in the market. Steve Cohen wants to take care of his fan base and some other owners are angry it makes them look bad. Team-related businesses and real estate: $0 (Team does not own its venue). (Jim McIsaac/Getty Images), #9 St. Louis Cardinals | Team value: $2.235 billion. 1 and are about three times as popular as you'd guess from the size of the Boston media market. TeamRankings.com is solely responsible for this site but makes no guarantee about the accuracy or completeness of the information herein. Just as an example, San Diego has a higher population than Boston, but, again, Boston has so much more than just Boston when we're talking about a market for a fan base. Of the $200 million-plus deals in baseball history, it broke down with 13 signing to a large-market team, 10 to a middle-market team and (gasp!) to more plausible (warmer weather, people watching endless hours of political coverage). Is revenue sharing the key to make it all work? (Julio Aguilar/Getty Images), #14 Seattle Mariners | Team value: $1.62 billion. Team-related businesses and real estate: $0 (Team does not own its venue). Hopefully this is the year we see Mike Soroka play meaningful baseball again after some horrific injury luck. Fun fact: For the first time in 20 years, the Milwaukee Brewers will have a new naming rights partner as American Life Insurance is replacing MillerCoors. This is usually approximated by population size and ignores the fact that St. Louis generates 50 percent more revenue than Tampa Bay despite equivalent Census Metropolitan population levels. The Tigers are an interesting one for me, since their FB and Twitter followings would suggest a rabid fan base, held back only by a city that has had financial turmoil. Jazz Chisholm plays with a ton of flash and both Jorge Soler and Luis Arraez can rake. #24 Detroit Tigers | Team value: $1.33 billion. (Getty Daniel Shirey/Getty Images), #24 Detroit Tigers | Team value: $1.33 billion. Fun fact: Great American Insurance Company bought the naming rights of the Cincinnati Reds ballpark when it opened in 2003 for $75 million over 30 years. Established in 1903, the MLB is the oldest major professional sports league in the US and Canada. Team-related businesses and real estate: $105 million. It's about how you want to proportion your dollars. Team-related businesses and real estate: $240 million. No sport, no team should take the loyalty of its fan base for granted. Teams of Major League Baseball ranked by revenue in the United States in 2021 (in million U.S. dollars) . Admire Adam Wainwright while you can, cause it doesnt seem like he has much left in the tank. MLB could generate more money from its jersey patches than the NBA because of baseballs slower pace of play and longer schedule, says Peter Laatz, global managing director at sponsorship consultancy IEG. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images), #29 Tampa Bay Rays | Team value: $1.14 billion. [4] Those metro areas are Greater Montreal, the Portland metropolitan area, Metro Vancouver and the Sacramento metropolitan area. Fun fact: Target Corp. and the Minnesota Twins agreed to an exclusive 25-year partnership that included naming rights to the Twins ballpark, which opened in 2010. After everything that has happened since 2019, it's no longer something we take for granted. But so can everyone else. 10. r/baseball. If market size is the driving factor in baseball economics, what is going on here? 1 of 30 30. Because if so, were going to have to move the Yankees up quite a bit. However, if we were to add the two revenue numbers, the combined revenue of the two teams is significantly higher than the trend line would suggest. In all, MLB teams are receiving an estimated $1.5 billion on their local cable deals without considering ownership interests. Prospect Rankings Depth Charts MLB Players Association Negro Leagues. Team-related businesses and real estate: $50 million. Folks, I dont know what to tell you. Fun fact: Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is part-owner of the Royals. ESPN, which effectively had the rights to any additional playoff games under its existing MLB television agreement, will likely pay at least $65 million a year for the new postseason games, according to baseball insiders. However, Im still not convinced there really is that strong of a linkage between revenue and market size outside the four biggest markets and heres why: We see only a very loose correlation in the smaller markets; clearly the large markets are skewing the correlation with such a small sample size. In between, they traded for superstar Juan Soto and signed Fernando Tatis, Jr. to a 14-year, $340 million extension. : https://t.co/5rOTQv6054 pic.twitter.com/wtElxbA7eT, Miami Marlins (@Marlins) March 24, 2023. The multiples are based on historical transactions and the future economics of the sport and teams. This club may have some weaknesses exposed, but its hard to see Houston doing anything except running away with the AL West yet again. #15 Toronto Blue Jays | Team value: $1.53 billion. Fun fact: In comparison, the Marlins neighboring NBA team, the Miami Heat, is valued at $2 billion. Before we test the relationship to revenue, lets take a look at the link between Facebook and Twitter: Unsurprisingly, we see a very strong linkage between the two metrics, with the Phillies exhibiting a much stronger Twitter following than Facebook. (Tim Warner/Getty Images), #10 Philadelphia Phillies ($2.28 billion), #10 Philadelphia Phillies | Team value: $2.22 billion. Dont let the departure of Justin Verlander fool you, the Astros can absolutely win back-to-back titles with a rotation of Cristian Javier, Framber Valdez, Jose Urquidy and Lance McCullers Jr. I wonder what youd find if, instead of population, you factored in measures of metro areas wealth, income or (perhaps best of all) business revenue. As another example, the Red Sox have a relatively average metro population but have a dominant revenue stream. In the Year 2023!? Fun fact: Great American Insurance Company bought the naming rights of the Cincinnati Reds ballpark when it opened in 2003 for $75 million over 30 years. Team-related businesses and real estate: $75 million. Sal Perez will try to recapture his old form after playing most of 2022 with a damaged thumb and Zack Greinke will continue to be one of the most entertaining players in baseball. Source for 2001 population of Canadian metropolitan areas: Fun fact: Comerica Bank agreed to a 30-year, $66 million naming rights deal for the Detroit Tigers ballpark in 1998. Ratings are down 12 percent because of a political statement made by a backup quartermback?) Fun fact: The Toronto Blue Jays are the only non-American team to win a World Series. To help keep their balance sheets afloat, owners over the past two years have added more than $2 billion of debt (excluding holding company borrowings) and injected about $1.5 billion of equity, according to sports bankers. If so, who? Fun fact: In comparison, the Marlins neighboring NBA team, the Miami Heat, is valued at $2 billion. Cities shown in black italics represent metropolitan areas without major league baseball, but home to NBA basketball, NFL football, and/or NHL hockey teams. Yet they were able to keep superstar catcher Joe Mauer throughout his career. Incremental acceptance decreases with age, so youd need to transform this variable to something else like a log function. Plenty of fans are wising up and have stopped buying the owner-level excuses of poverty. Similarly, the Philadelphia MSA doesnt include Atlantic City NJ, Dover DE or Reading PA, but they are included in the Philadelphia CSA. #26 Arizona Diamondbacks | Team value: $1.28 billion. Team-related businesses and real estate: $150 million. Fun fact: Citizens Bank and the Philadelphia Phillies agreed to a 25-year partnership worth $95 million in 2003 that included naming rights of the ballpark. The list of players who have departed the roster since then include Max . Theres not too much else to be excited about, however. 10 in the FTW rankings. The recovery is most evident with the Texas Rangers, who jumped 15% in value from last year, the most in baseball, to $2.05 billion. Their $336 million roster is only $23 million less than the combined payroll of the Athletics, Orioles, Pirates, Rays, Reds and Guardians. Only the Dodgers, Astros, and Yankees have won more games since 2018. The 8 tiers of contenders for 2022. On the demographic side, mlb fandom skews white and older compared to the MLB metros as a whole, so maybe metro white population is a better fit than general population (some multicollonearity between income and race/age though). Fun fact: Anheuser-Busch has owned the naming rights of the St. Louis Cardinals stadium since 1953. Using CSA instead of Metro may increase the r2 results. Theyll play an aggravating brand of baseball, win 85~ games and stay in the playoff hunt until at least late July. Do I even need to name any players for you to know this club is just going to scrap its way to 90+ wins? Only way to grow the fanbase is to win. The latest culprit for the naysayers of spending is Mets owner Steve Cohen. Fun fact: Since the Houston Astros dont own Minute Maid Park, the team leases the ballpark for $8.1 million per year from Harris County. Dirt. #10 Philadelphia Phillies | Team value: $2.22 billion. 2004-2023 CBS Interactive. This baseball market analysis was not meant to answer any particular issue, but instead it was written by Al Streit (article comments welcome) to shed light on the topic and better define the markets using recognized sources. The following sortable table lists and ranks the population of metropolitan areas that have MLB franchises with the following data: simple:List of Major League Baseball teams by population. How do you feel about the entire small market debate? 3 - Boston Red Sox. But do we have a way to quantify this, other than looking at revenue? I've seen at least one serious estimation that between this and other money coming in, the smallest-market teams can expect around $100 million before selling a single ticket in spring training or the regular season. Click here for the full list of MLB team valuations. Interestingly, /Giants on Twitter is for the football Giants, whereas on Facebook it is for the baseball version. Even the latter can be misused as it might or might not include adjacent cities. Team-related businesses and real estate: $0 (Team does not own its venue). Reprints. The Cardinals, Cubs . Watch because the raw talent is hard to look away from. In 2021, the Pirates and PNC Bank agreed to a 10-year extension for naming rights. Will definitely revisit this again and include Combined Statistical Areas, as well as ratings and income demographics, potentially with minor league data as well. Coors agreed to a 30-year, $200 million naming rights extension in 2017. by Retrosheet. No offense to the back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back NL East champs, but they arent the most watchable team in their division this year. Fun fact: Target Corp. and the Minnesota Twins agreed to an exclusive 25-year partnership that included naming rights to the Twins ballpark, which opened in 2010. The brewing company signed a 20-year naming rights agreement with the Cardinals when the team opened its newest stadium in 2006. Thanks for the great feedback above, as well as on Twitter. In ranking the teams by capital structure, the San Francisco Giants are clearly the most stable franchise in the major leagues. Fun fact: The Seattle Mariners franchise has never won a World Series since it joined the MLB in 1977. They traded for Kyle Lewis, traded away Daulton Varsho, signed Evan Longoria and then gave Corbin Carroll an eight-year, $111 million deal. I tackled the fallacy that other sports have more parity than Major League Baseball last February. Team-related businesses and real estate: $150 million. copyright=new Date(); #22 Colorado Rockies | Team value: $1.36 billion. I'm not going to sit here and attempt to estimate how much money any particular team has and should dedicate to player payroll, primarily because the very teams crying poor have long refused to make their accounting books public. Lets take a look at the data in a slightly different way, where instead of breaking out the individual teams, well amalgamate all the baseball revenue the metro area generates and see how strong a correlation we get. Statcast Leaders Baseball Savant Top Prospect Stats. www.canadainfolink.ca/cities.htm. If we're running with the narrative that small-market teams (like those poor Orioles) can't keep their players, how does Machado end up with a "smaller" market team? #17 Baltimore Orioles | Team value: $1.46 billion. Forbes team values are enterprise values (equity plus net debt) calculated using a multiple of revenue. 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He builds data visualizations in Tableau, and builds baseball data in Rust. Maybe the Rays woeful attendance record comes down to a simple matter of dollars and cents for fans. Thats how badly chairman Steve Cohen wants to bring a World Series title back to Queens. This would suggest that other metrics such as wins and fan intensity play a larger role in determining franchise revenues. But what if they continue to win without it? Fun fact: When the San Diego Padres opened their ballpark in 2004, pet supply retailer Petco agreed to a 22-year, $60 million deal for the naming rights. Team-related businesses and real estate: $110 million. MLB.TV. 17 days ago. But more likely than not itll be hit by the visiting team. Printed from TeamRankings.com - 2005-2023 Team Rankings, LLC. Markets of more than 10 million people--------------------------------------------------------, 21,199,865 New York Mets, New York Yankees16,373,645 Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers, Markets of 5-10 million people--------------------------------------------------------, 9,157,540 Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox7,608,070 Baltimore Orioles, Washington Nationals7,039,362 Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants6,188,463 Philadelphia Phillies5,819,100 Boston Red Sox5,456,428 Detroit Tigers5,221,801 Texas Rangers, Markets of 3-5 million people--------------------------------------------------------, 4,682,897 Toronto Blue Jays4,669,571 Houston Astros4,112,198 Atlanta Braves3,878,380 Florida Marlins3,554,760 Seattle Mariners3,426,350 Montreal, QC (NHL)3,251,876 Arizona Diamondbacks, Markets of 2-3 million people--------------------------------------------------------, 2,968,806 Minnesota Twins2,945,831 Cleveland Indians2,813,833 San Diego Padres2,603,607 St Louis Cardinals2,581,506 Colorado Rockies2,395,997 Tampa Bay Devil Rays2,358,695 Pittsburgh Pirates2,265,223 Portland, OR (NBA), Markets of 1-2 million people--------------------------------------------------------, 1,986,965 Vancouver, BC (NHL)1,979,202 Cincinnati Reds1,796,857 Sacramento, CA (NBA)1,776,062 Kansas City Royals1,689,572 Milwaukee Brewers1,644,561 Orlando, FL (NBA)1,607,486 Indianapolis, IN (NBA, NFL)1,592,383 San Antonio, TX (NBA)1,540,157 Columbus, OH (NHL)1,499,293 Charlotte, NC (NBA, NFL)1,337,726 New Orleans, LA (NBA, NFL)1,333,914 Salt Lake City, UT (NBA)1,231,311 Nashville, TN (NFL, NHL)1,187,941 Raleigh, NC (NHL)1,170,111 Buffalo, NY (NFL, NHL)1,135.614 Memphis, TN (NBA)1,100,491 Jacksonville, FL (NFL)1,063,664 Ottawa, ON (NHL), Markets of fewer than 1 million people--------------------------------------------------------, 951,395 Calgary, AB (NHL)937,845 Edmonton, AB (NHL)599,671 Green Bay, WI (NFL). 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