“Our goal is to provide a sustainable product on the field, so our team can consistently compete year after year,” Mariners owner John Stanton told the Seattle Times in June. ” he said. “We’ve increased our salaries in each of the last three years. Maybe not as much as you would like us to…but we all deal with constraints, right?”
St. Louis, which has maintained an annual payroll of more than $170 million for the past two years, plans to cut personnel costs for the 2025 season after failing to exceed 3 million fans this year for the first time since 2003. There is. The Twins drew 1,951,000 fans to Target. This season’s field ranked higher than just seven teams and fell short of preseason expectations. They haven’t drawn more than 2 million fans in a season since 2019, and haven’t had more than 2.26 million fans in the last 10 years.
Milwaukee, which has a retractable roof, has attracted at least 2.3 million visitors every season since 2004, excluding 2020 and 2021, when coronavirus restrictions were in place.
Kansas City finished the year with 1.658 million fans, but hasn’t reached the 2 million milestone since 2017. The Royals increased their salary this year and reached the playoffs for the first time since winning the World Series in 2015.
“When I first bought the team[in 2005]I realized I had no idea how to run a baseball team,” Brewers owner Attanasio told the New York Times last year. “If you look at this as an investment problem, there are just a few big items: revenue and tickets and media, and then you have core revenue and player salaries. …And then you say, ‘Oh, this is easy.’
