This came out back in April, but it certainly is worth another post in a year of cost-cutting, Valverde-dropping, and Brandon Lyon-signing.
What we have here is the Forbes' list of the business of baseball, in which we see the following:
Team value: $445 million (12th-highest in baseball).
This is down 4% from 2008, and the Astros were among ten teams who saw a decline in team value.
But were up 9% in what Forbes calls the annual value change (current team value compared with latest transaction price).
Revenue: $194 million (11th-highest)
Operating income: $17 million
Player expenses: $111 million
Gate receipts: $78 million
When the 2009 numbers come out in April, we'll take another look at this, because all numbers involved will likely go down, thanks to all those empty seats.
We didn't come out here to play tiddlywinks, son.
-Hal Smith
