my guess is that the brewers are in the mid-range and don’t get much, if anything. is there a list of teams that are net recipients? i suppose i could look it up…

We tried to use some of that money to give a ridiculously huge offer to Sabathia, but the Yankees just swooped in and outridiculoused ours, like they can and do every single offseason.

you can create your own here.

As I’ve written in the past when addresing the Brewers’ budget, they are believed to have received about $30 million in revenue sharing last year. Their payroll this year is $85.33 million, the largest in team history and up $5 million from a year ago.

The Brewers have the lowest radio/TV revenues in the majors while the Yankees have the highest, thanks to their YES Network and other ventures. That is where the main descrepancy lies in the revenues of the two clubs, and it is a very big gap.

Attanasio has said repeatedly in the past that he puts his club’s revenues back into the team, including scouting and player development. Since taking over as owner before the 2005 season, Attanasio has raised the team payroll some $60 million.

Link.

I’m with tcyoung here. Mark has every right as an owner to so much as goof at the prospect of how daunting it is to re-sign and sign successful players when in a small media market. Given that we’re headed into the second game of the season tonight, how pointless and unnecessary is it for Randy Levine to take a shot at another owner, one of a considerably smaller payroll at that. I have to believe there’s bigger issues to go over in Yankee Land than a small crack toward their payroll, but, as is typically the case, the one with more power and wealth needs to get defensive and whine out their problems.

The reason why you have that much revenue is because you’re in a massive metropolitan area. If you actually divided up the market by population instead of geography, you’d probably have six teams in New York. But you don’t want to dilute your market. You call it revenue sharing, I call it advance marketing – it’s not much of a world series if the rest of the world can’t afford to play your game. So you dish out enough money just to make things a little competitive, and then smash the opposition and bask in the glory of your ‘hard won’ victory.

Vomit.

And people were all up in arms? But its true. When a team like Tampa Bay gets to the world series, its not normal. Just like its unnatural for the Yankees not to make the playoffs.

Maybe you can catch lightning in a bottle one year, but you can’t get to the playoffs consistently without money. At least we are average in that department now.

I wish they would put a cap and floor in place, like 50 – 150 million