Spring training has arrived, but that hasn’t stopped Major League Baseball’s economics from remaining a hot-button topic from all corners of the industry. Various franchise owners have expressed their concerns about the state of the game following an offseason that witnessed the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets assert their financial might. In most cases, the owners state their desire for at least one of two proposed solutions: a salary cap and/or better revenue sharing.
As it turns out, agent Scott Boras has an idea for a measurement of his own to combat what plague’s MLB’s business: a metric tracking how much of each team’s revenue is being used on their roster.