Originally Posted by
JasonEvans
This Forbes page indicates the Dodgers annual revenues were in the low-mid $240 millions in 2009, 10, and 11. They dropped to the $230 mil area in 2012. But, a new TV deal and a ton of fan excitement over the big-spending team that seems likely to be a strong World Series contender would seems likely to boost revenues, perhaps quite a bit. It is not at all unlikely to think that the Dodgers can comfortably generate $275+ million dollars a year in revenues.
So, if they carry a $230ish million dollar player payroll plus another $10 mil or so for managers, coaches, and other front-office folks, that seems to make them nicely profitable.
Of course, the folks who bought them paid $2 billion for them and there are certainly large interest payments on the debt they incurred. Plus, I am sure these guys want some kind of return on the hundreds of millions they put down on the team.
I'd love to see all the financials. I wonder, is it possible for them to actually make some payments back to the ownership with a payroll in the mid-200s?
-Jason "the competitive balance of baseball -- from a financial standpoint -- is a joke. There is a reason America loves the NFL a lot more than MLB" Evans