If this report from John Helyar of Bloomberg is true, whoa, MLB is going to have A LOT of explaining to do to, well, every team that is not the Los Angeles Dodgers:
The Los Angeles Dodgers have shot out of bankruptcy and into the ranks of baseball?s biggest spenders, fueled partly by a secret agreement between former owner?Frank McCourt?and?Major League Baseball?that may limit the revenue the team is obliged to share with less prosperous clubs.
A settlement ending their 2011 battle in?U.S. Bankruptcy Court?gives the Dodgers? new owners a chance to cap income subject to revenue-sharing from a proposed regional sports network at about $84 million a year, according to five people familiar with the confidential ?special terms.?
The upshot: the Dodgers ? based on assumptions about what their new TV deal will bring them ? will be able to hold on to some $141 million a year that they would otherwise have to share with other clubs in the league. That?s because their new deal will bring in far, far more than $84 million a year. Indeed, its estimated that it?ll bring in?$175 million to $225 million a year over the 20- year contract.
This would help in part to explain the massive sales price of the team, as the biggest financial hurdle a large market/revenue team faces is its revenue sharing obligations.
Major League Baseball Executive Vice President Rob Manfred pushes back against this, saying that the revenue sharing figures will be based on the actual TV revenue the Dodgers receive. ?Which ? seems like a direct contradiction of the whole story. ?So, I?m not sure what?s going on here. ?Bloomberg is obviously reporting, based on several sources, that there is a deal to cap revenue-sharing eligible TV money. Manfred?s words suggests that?s not the case.
Any help here, anyone?
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