Major League Baseball reported $ 12.1 billion in revenues for the year 2024, According to Forbes. This marks a record for the League, breaking the previous record of $ 11.6 billion in 2023. Note that the league experienced an increase of $ 500 million in just one year, so growth continues to be substantial.
This figure does not include any other company held by teams or developments for mixed use around the stadium, such as the Braves battery, according to Forbes, and it does not include the revenues of RSN belonging to the team, which generally brings Tens of millions of dollars a year.
“Oh, yeah,” Commissioner MLB Rob Manfred Tell Sporto in October. “We had a happy new year. Our business was strong.”
This continues a long -standing trend in the growing income of the league fairly considerably each year, with the exception of seasons of 2020 and 2021 affected at the end of 2020 and 2021, for 2014, Mlb Increased $ 1 billion revenues to $ 12.1 billion dollars, which means growth of more than 33% in 10 years.
The publication of this report comes $ 4.1 billion estimatedsaying he MLB wishes would have a “like the other sports” salary ceiling. The MLB Players Association has long insisted that they will never accept a ceiling.
League attendance at League has exceeded 71 million fans and has been the highest that the MLB has seen since 2017 since 2017. Attendance had dropped each year from 2012 to 199 and has now rebounded with increases in 2023 and 2024 while the league recovers from the pandemic.
None of this suggests that the League is devoid of problems, but the league financial results as a whole are incredibly healthy and shows an upward trend, whatever the billionaire owners.
