Good morning.
John Sickels on –
Minor League Baseball To Have 'Copa de la Diversión' Initiative; Reach Hispanic, Latino
Communities –
All told, there will be 165 games across Minor League
Baseball that will engage in Copa de la Diversión starting on April 8, in Round
Rock, Texas, and concludes on Sept. 2, in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
The Brooklyn Cyclones will be renamed The Brooklyn Jefes
Fangraphs on Jay Bruce
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At almost 31, Bruce isn't going to suddenly become a better
defender, and his decline is coming. The projection here is for something
approximating 2016 offensively, and that's probably about right. But if his
defense craters back to 2015-16 metrics, Bruce is suddenly approaching
replacement level again.
New York Mets
Earned $97 Million At Citi Field Last Season -
But documents obtained by Forbes via a FOIL request to the
New York City Economic Development Corporation show the MLB team did very well
at the cash register.
Queens Ballpark, LLC, the entity that runs Citi Field for Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz,
the owners of the Mets, generated revenue of $163 million and net income of $97
million in 2017. The previous season the ballpark posted revenue of $168
million and net income of $75 million.
Baseball’s innovative front offices
have created a handful of dominant superteams -
The era of the baseball superteam has arrived.
In 2017, three teams (the Astros, Indians and Dodgers) won
100 games or more. Another team (the Nationals) won its division by 20 games.
You don’t need to calculate standard deviations to appreciate how special that
was. It’s never happened in the history of professional baseball.
Here’s the scary part: None of those four teams enters 2018
showing signs of regression. The New York Yankees were on the cusp of
superteamdom even before they poached National League MVP Giancarlo Stanton from the Miami Marlins. Fans of the
Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox have ample reason to believe this is their
year, too. Seven teams have a chance at winning the 2018 World Series; the
other 23 have a chance at being the last to get off their lawn.
7 comments:
Mets made $97 million? Win 90+ this year somehow and that number will go up, up, up.
Gerson will somehow harness his stuff enough to be a faster Hansel Robles! Fast enough to make a difference.
Jay Bruce is going to team with Cespedes this season and give us a 40-40 club.
That was $87 million at the ballpark. That doesn't include broadcast revenues and other sources of income. Hmmn...and they couldn't afford to add top tier players, huh?
Reese -
they had hockey commitments
Don't dispute Reese's numbers, Mack. He has moles in the FO with access to ultra-classified data, so he knows every dollar that comes in and every penny spent. 😁
The “Wilson’s can’t afford a big market payroll” is the biggest fake news in all of sports. That was the case 6-8 years ago, but no longer. SNY just had its highest spring training ratings ever, up 65% from last year. They have stars and a solid club. Take a closer look at the Queens Ballpark financial statement and the lease with NYC - a fixed cost until 2037, just under half of the Yankee lease with NYC, and the CitiField naming rights cover almost 40% of the lease. These guys have plenty of dough and are poised to have windfall profits if the Mets can win the NL east. Hopefully we can retire the “poor” billionaire talk once and for all.
I'd like to take a closer look at those. Have you got a link, or a source?
Always remember that different entities own different things. Stadium revenue probably includes concerts and other sporting events, like nhl games and exhibitions. The mets do a lot more of that then most other baseball stadiums.
I will say outside of the "42" statue in the the rotunda, which i think is weird as robinson wasnt a met, the Ballpark and the staff that runs it are very very smart.
Citifield, has great food and drink options, especially compared to other local stadiums. They are opening a huge craft beer brewery inside it. They do a really good job with the stadium.
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