Rest Of Baseball - 2013

[MDS]

how is that baseball players make more than football players even though football destroys baseball in every conceivable financial aspect

[ice grillin you]

162 games.......white wealthy fanbases

[MDS]

football tv contract and merchandise deals destroy baseball....less travel costs, less overhead, etc.

bottom line the owners make more than baseball owners do yet spend less on employees even though 1. the careers of the players are considerably shorter 2. the unbelievable health risks involved

[ice grillin you]

162 > 16

plus local tv deals

[MDS]

i have no way of proving this because these arent public companies but the nfl and its teams are more profitable than mlb and its teams

do they yankees have more money than the bengals? sure. but on the whole it aint close.

[ice grillin you]

i think you pretty much said it....the top mlb teams destroy the top nfl teams....but as a league the nfl has an advantage

revenue sharing in the nfl makes a big difference.....and obviously the salary cap too

[MDS]

aside from the yankees, its not really close

http://www.forbes.com/mlb-valuations/list/

http://www.forbes.com/nfl-valuations/list/

[ice grillin you]

im not really sure why you are going by franchise worth but ok

[MDS]

isnt that what we were talking about?

excuse me for being stone cold sober

[QB Eagles]

You guys are missing the most obvious difference.

53 > 25
X/25 > X/53

The NFL salary cap (which all teams hover around) is $123 million, which is bigger than the mean MLB payroll by about $20 million. Of course baseball has an enormous disparity in team payrolls, but basically the NFL players are pulling in more money, there are just a lot more of them to divvy up the cash.

[MDS]

true

but peyton manning is exponentially more important to his team than robinson cano and better at his individual sport but cano is making more (i think)

[Geowhizzer]

Mike Napoli gets 2 years / $32M from the Red Sox.

[BigEd76]

3-way trade:

DBacks get Mark Trumbo and 2 PTBNLs
White Sox get Adam Eaton
Angels get Tyler Skaggs and Hector Santiago

[Dillen]

Assuming the PTBNL aren't valuable Angels pieces, that's a hell of a deal for them

Brett Anderson to Colorado for Drew Pomeranz and a lower prospect

[PhillyPhreak54]

Bartolo Colon - 2yrs $20M - NY MET