26 minutes ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:

2nd lowest revenue and only 6 teams are over $250M payroll. According to your math what does it say  about the rest of baseball ? 

That the sweet spot for at least being competitive is around $140-150 million...

Brewers Reds Guardians the true anomalies under that figure. 

Although one could argue the latter two teams much closer to .500 than the Brewers.

And Tigers right around that $145 million mark.

 

Edited October 15, 2025Oct 15 by caulfield12

4 hours ago, almagest said:

That's the real takeaway - there's no robber baron twirling his mustache while making money hand over fist. JR is an incompetent businessman at running an MLB team. There's no reason this team should only be ahead of the Athletics in revenue, and that's likely only because that team is in the middle of historically fucking over their fan base.

He's been alienating fans almost from the get-go and his numerous PR blunders have been discussed ad nauseum.  But Jerry really squandered a couple of golden opportunities to build the Sox into a marketable, big-market team.  First when the State of Illinois gifted him a new stadium at gun point and he had a soulless dud of a facility built that focused on luxury suites and corporate clients over the regular fans. Then second was after they won the World Series.  Instead of building on momentum from that championship by pouring resources into the farm system and high-quality free agents, we ended up with 2 decades of mostly teams that were underachievers at best.  

I wonder how much lack of corporate sponsorship factors into them having the 2nd lowest revenue in the league.  

7 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:

He's been alienating fans almost from the get-go and his numerous PR blunders have been discussed ad nauseum.  But Jerry really squandered a couple of golden opportunities to build the Sox into a marketable, big-market team.  First when the State of Illinois gifted him a new stadium at gun point and he had a soulless dud of a facility built that focused on luxury suites and corporate clients over the regular fans. Then second was after they won the World Series.  Instead of building on momentum from that championship by pouring resources into the farm system and high-quality free agents, we ended up with 2 decades of mostly teams that were underachievers at best.  

I wonder how much lack of corporate sponsorship factors into them having the 2nd lowest revenue in the league.  

They did better with sponsorships in 2025.

Plus the Cubs had an absolute stranglehold on the city from 2014-2019 or so...timed together with the first major rebuild since the late 90s.

Edited October 15, 2025Oct 15 by caulfield12