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Major League Baseball Franchise ValuationsBy Patrick Mondout
Our yearly pages for each team from 1990-2005 (example)
contain valuation estimates. These are not official in any way are are
estimates. Choose a year from table on the right too see valuations for
that year. The figures for 1990-1997 are from Financial World and
the rest from Forbes. Check with Forbes for the reasoning behind
each figure.
AVERAGE
VALUATIONS |
| YEAR |
AVG |
| 2005 |
$376,466,667 |
| 2004 |
$332,000,000 |
| 2003 |
$295,333,333 |
| 2002 |
$294,533,333 |
| 2001 |
$286,300,000 |
| 2000 |
$262,866,667 |
| 1999 |
$233,400,000 |
| 1998 |
$220,233,333 |
| 1997 |
$194,000,000 |
| 1996 |
$134,464,286 |
| 1995 |
$115,392,857 |
| 1994 |
$110,500,000 |
| 1993 |
$107,000,000 |
| 1992 |
$108,846,154 |
| 1991 |
$116,192,308 |
| 1990 |
$121,153,846 |
| MLB
VALUATIONS |
The green table on the right shows what the average team was worth
person season. As you can see, Major League owners have nearly tripled
(these figures are not adjusted for inflation) their investment over the
past decade while pleading poverty every time they want you taxpayers to
build these billionaires a new stadium:
The Yankees became the first team to pass the billion dollar valuation
mark when Forbes released their latest figures in April of 2006. Seems
appropriate considering they have a guy playing out a 1/4 of billion
dollar contract.
Much of the work of compiling this information was by Rodney Fort, who
has an
excellent site full of such data.
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