MLB players receive lowest revenue of Big 4 team sports

(Sports Business Journal): "Major League Baseball players received about 52 percent of leaguewide revenue last season, said MLB’s Rob Manfred, which would appear to leave baseball players with

• the lowest percentage of revenue among the
• Big Four team sports.

Under their respective collective-bargaining agreements, NHL players received 56.7 percent last season, NBA players about 57 percent and NFL players about 59 percent"....

• (Manfred says you can't really compare, as MLB puts mega millions into player development that other sports don't).

(Sports Business Journal): "Still, MLB players in the early part of this decade received a much higher percentage of league revenue, in the high 50s to low 60s.

• In recent history, the number peaked in 2003 at 63 percent.

In 2002, MLB and the MLB Players Association agreed on a new collective-bargaining agreement

• that included a luxury tax provision,
• which Manfred has said affected the number."...

(So luxury tax may not necessarily benefit players).

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