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MLB lockout: Who’s at fault? Yankees’ Michael Kay has strong opinion that exonerates Rob Manfred
Published: Mar. 04, 2022, 7:00 a.m. by By Randy Miller | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
... he’s the television voice of the Yankees and his radio show is simulcast on YES, which is owned by the Yankees ...
Kay never is shy about speaking his mind on his radio show, as he’s criticized Yankees GM Brian Cashman, managers and star players many times...
Kay blames small-market owners, the ones who run the likes of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals and Tampa Bay Rays. His hunch is that the latest CBA proposal made by the MLBPA last Sunday only was rejected because there were enough nays from small-market franchises to prevent the needed 75% approval...
"those small-market teams run baseball. Think about that. The poorest group out of the 30, they run the sport. How ridiculous that is. They run the sport. The richest people don’t." ...
"“You get the haves against the have nots. You think the Mets, the Dodgers, the Yankees, the Red Sox, the Cubs and the Astros want a work stoppage? Absolutely not. They do well... The real problem is you probably have too many teams. If teams can’t compete with their revenue stream, then they should get out.”
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Sources: Angels, Diamondbacks, Reds and Tigers owners opposed MLB luxury tax increase by By Evan Drellich Mar 4, 2022 theathletic.com
NEW YORK — Four Major League Baseball owners — Bob Castellini of the Reds, Chris Ilitch of the Tigers, Ken Kendrick of the Diamondbacks and Arte Moreno of the Angels — objected to raising the competitive balance tax to the levels the league ultimately proposed most recently, three people briefed on an owner-wide call held this week told The Athletic. MLB moved forward with the proposal anyway, moving its offer on the first threshold to $220 million — up $10 million from where it was in 2021, and $6 million from its previous offer, but still far below the players’ ask of $238 million.
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Two quick points the players are upset about:
1. MLB proposed increasing the minimum salary from $570,000 to $700,000. The players want $725,000.
2. MLB proposed increasing the "cap" "to $220 million — up $10 million ... still far below the players’ ask of $238 million".
Really? Neither seems very far apart.
2021 Major League Baseball Attendance & Team Age
Click the above link for the 30 MLB teams and play with the data yourself but sorting on some fields ...
Six teams drew over two million fans in this order: Los Angeles, Atlanta, San Diego, Texas (Dallas), St. Louis, Houston.
Six teams drew fewer than one million fans in this order to the bottom: Pittsburgh, Toronto, Baltimore, Tampa, Oakland, Miami (dead last after five years of Derek Jeter running it; Jeter quit a couple of days ago; Jeter is a former player).
The four teams mentioned above:
15. Los Angeles Angels 1,515,689
17. Cincinnati Reds 1,505,024
23. Detroit Tigers 1,102,621
24. Arizona Diamondbacks 1,043,010
Also:
7. Chicago Cubs 1,978,934
8. New York Yankees 1,959,854
9. Boston Red Sox 1,725,323
16. New York Mets 1,511,926
Sorted by estimated payroll:
MLB could easily drop Miami, Baltimore, Pittsburgh. But what about Tampa? Tampa is way down in both attendance and payroll yet was first in its division with 100 wins, lost the World Series to the Dodgers in the short 2020 season and won 96 games in 2019.
Ten teams paid its players at least $149,000,000. Ten teams paid less than $90,000,000.
Some teams with high attendance but low payroll: Texas (has a new ballpark), Colorado, Milwaukee.
A teams with high payroll but low attendance: Toronto.
Washington has the lowest attendance for the top 13 teams in payroll: #7 in payroll.
The Chicago White Sox seem to be the bottom of the "big" payroll teams at $114 million. Next is Milwaukee at $97 million. That's a pretty big gap. Even sharing it with the Cubs, Chicago is a bigger media city than Milwaukee.
Why does Florida have teams and other comments on attendance. Saturday, September 28, 2013
Super League Sunday, March 29, 2009
I really don't care whether Kansas City has a MLB team. Nor Toronto. Nor Pittsburgh. I'm tired of junk like small market teams and revenue sharing. There's a reason it's called MAJOR league. It does not mean that Kansas City cannot have a baseball team. It means that Kansas City is not entitled to a MAJOR league team, subsidized by fans of the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, Dodgers, etc.
Why don't those teams drop out of MLB and form a super league of their own? ...
Let the remaining teams go their own way. Who would care? Not SL fans.
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