I read the baseball is a 10 billion dollar business and roughly half of that Revenue comes from ticket sales.
So if they have to play games in front of empty stadiums, ticket Revenue will decline about 166 million dollars per team.
Whatever agreement on splitting revenue or prorating salaries they come up with, all the teams are looking at absorbing huge operating losses perhaps in the tens of millions of dollars this year.
We hate to think about it, but the owners would come out way ahead financially if they just scrapped the season.
They have got to be able to sell tickets this season, even if they cannot sell out the ballpark , and have to do social distancing and not sell all of the tickets. They desperately need that Revenue in order to pay all of their operating expenses, of which player salaries are probably the biggest single expense that they have.
I have a friend whose nephew is a bench utility player in MLB. The scuttlebutt I have is that a big factor in all of this is that a whole lot of MLB players are married to Karens who are convinced they’re all gonna die unless they can take the field in NASA space suits.