On the Margins: New Revenue-Sharing Rules Should Spread The Wealth
Now that some of the details of the new CBA are coming to light, Neil`s able to look at a few of the finer points of how teams will now receive and spend money
The Ledger Domain: The New Collective Bargaining Agreement
Maury begins a savage journey to the heart of the new CBA by tackling how revenue sharing will look from 2007 on
Marty Keeping Score for the New York Times, Again
As Marty notes today, if revenue sharing had any impact at all it would be seen in reduced payroll disparity. Yet in the last five years the difference between the “haves” and ‘have nots” in baseball has actually increased (a similar
No One Left to Take the Money
Free agency greased those skids, starting baseball on decades of Coasean exchanges that resulted in a virtual all-star team in pinstripes. But revenue sharing will damage free agency and thus thwart exchanges. Even the Yankees might be
New Agreement Offers Incentive for Bad Teams to Get Better
One thing that we heard repeatedly was that the previous version of revenue-sharing in major league baseball actually discouraged struggling small-market teams like the woeful Pittsburgh Pirates from trying to become more competitive.
Is Revenue Sharing Working?
During Game One of the World Series Tim McCarver claimed that revenue sharing in baseball is working. His evidence – baseball is crowning its seventh new champion in seven years. McCarver – and others – interpret the outcome of
Does Baseball’s Revenue Sharing Work?
David Berri on The Sports Economist blog examines the winning percentages of Major League Baseball teams before and after the 2002 Collective Bargaining Agreement. He argues that the competitive balance we are starting to see has less
Details on the new CBA
I always thought that this tax was the limit to revenue sharing in baseball, but I apparently was wrong. The news here is that the threshold for when teams must pay this tax increases substantially over the next five years,
Looking at the Baseball CBA
He is to be congratulated on achieving a CBA before the deadline and one for five years. That it may have skirted the fundamental revenue sharing issue to achieve it may prove problematic or may just mean that baseball in Florida is
The Sports Economist: Berri: Is Revenue Sharing Working?
The reality is that competitive balance improved in baseball during the 20th century as the population of available athletes expanded. And the improvements occurred well before the 2002 agreement. In the last thirty years the

The Business Of Baseball - Forbes.com
Most of the money comes courtesy of the New York Yankees, which paid a record $77 million toward baseball's revenue sharing system. The Boston Red Sox,
Baseball Commission Calls for More Revenue Sharing
Baseball Commission Calls for More Revenue Sharing the weaker franchises, which benefit little from the current 20 percent local revenue sharing plan.
Revenue Sharing in Major League Baseball:
was “an illegal combination and conspiracy in. Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law & Practice. Revenue Sharing in Major League Baseball
ESPN.com - MLB - Selig proud of MLB's drug policy, revenue sharing
Baseball's revenue-sharing program, which shifted a total of $48 million in its first year, will transfer a total of $323 million in 2006.
The Sports Economist
During Game One of the World Series Tim McCarver claimed that revenue sharing in baseball is working. His evidence – baseball is crowning its seventh new

Baseball Commission Calls for More Revenue Sharing
Baseball Commission Calls for More Revenue Sharing the weaker franchises, which benefit little from the current 20 percent local revenue sharing plan.
Revenue Sharing in Major League Baseball:
was “an illegal combination and conspiracy in. Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law & Practice. Revenue Sharing in Major League Baseball
ESPN.com - MLB - Selig proud of MLB's drug policy, revenue sharing
Baseball's revenue-sharing program, which shifted a total of $48 million in its first year, will transfer a total of $323 million in 2006.
The Sports Economist
During Game One of the World Series Tim McCarver claimed that revenue sharing in baseball is working. His evidence – baseball is crowning its seventh new
The Business of Baseball :: Analysis :: Summary of [2002] CBA
Local Revenue Sharing: Rises from 20% under the 1996-2001 CBA to 34%, Pappas was the chairman of the Business of Baseball committee from its founding in
ESPN.com: MLB - Share and share alike
Are small-market teams playing ball with the money from revenue sharing, the rationale for baseball's revenue-sharing system took a hit.
Against Baseball Socialism: Haves, have-nots, and Commissioner
Absolutely nothing -- except that they are all, as "small market" teams, recipients of welfare checks from Major League Baseball's inane revenue-sharing
Baseball payroll parity closer to NFL than it appears - Oct. 6, 2006
Baseball's playoffs would seem to be a good argument both for and against a more The Tigers got $25 million in revenue sharing at the end of last year,