Revenue Sharing In Baseball

Mlb owners approved a revenue sharing agreement that could help bring baseball back in july but the proposal is expected to be rejected by players.

Revenue sharing in baseball. That has cratered to less than 40 percent in the. Revenue sharing is in the players minds the equally evil cousin of the salary cap a poison pill that owners tried to implement in 1994 even at the expense of the world series. That very damaging. Thanks to 326 million in revenue sharing last year alone the average revenue differential between mlb s seven richest teams and its seven poorest fell from 118 percent in 1999 to 67 percent in.

The issue of small market against large market teams became salient in the 1990s however and was at the core of the 1994 strike. For one revenue sharing between teams is likely to be eliminated again in 2021 according to evan drellich of the athletic.