SporticoJoe West Ex-Met Lo Duca Called Out in Umpire West’s Podcast Slander Case Sportico - Michael McCann Podcasts often rely on informal and unscripted dialogue, a dynamic that frequently results in free-spirited and far-ranging discussions. However …
SporticoNew York City Sports Francisco Lindor’s $43.3 Million 2021 Payday Sets One-Year MLB Record Sportico - Kurt Badenhausen It’s official. After agreeing to contract terms just ahead of Opening Day, the New York Mets and star shortstop Francisco Lindor put pen to paper …
SporticoMLB All-Star Game MLB’s All-Star Brawl Shows Sports Can’t Escape Modern Politics Sportico - Rick Burton As a former pro sports league commissioner (albeit of Australia’s National Basketball League) from 2003-07, I’ve watched with great interest the …
SporticoNew York City Sports Cohen’s Mets Can Shrink $4 Billion Valuation Gap with Yankees Sportico - JohnWallStreet In Sportico’s recently released 2021 Major League Baseball team valuation report, no franchise’s total value came in higher than that of the New York …
SporticoIan Happ Cubs’ Happ Invests in Jomboy Podcast as Baseball Duties Resume Sportico - Randall Williams As Major League Baseball slowly releases its grip on media restrictions, Chicago Cubs outfielder Ian Happ has partnered with and invested in Jomboy …
SporticoGeorgia (U.S. State) MLB Pulls All-Star Game From Atlanta in Response to Georgia Voting Law Sportico - Luke Cyphers Major League Baseball will move the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to Georgia’s recent passage of a law that restricts voting access, …
SporticoSalaries & Wages MLB’s Highest-Paid Players 2021: Trout, Bauer and Cole Score as Average Salary Dips Sportico - Kurt Badenhausen Baseball team owners handed out a series of blockbuster playing contracts in recent years, including a half-dozen $300 million-plus deals since the …
SporticoMajor League Baseball Jomboy Media Empire Grows as MLB Loosens Content Restrictions Sportico - Jacob Feldman Jomboy Media keeps things simple. In 2017, Jimmy O’Brien launched the Talkin’ Yanks podcast. Its growing audience allowed him, along with Jake …
SporticoNew York City Sports From Yankees to Marlins: 2021 MLB Franchise Valuations Ranking List Sportico - Peter J. Schwartz Sportico’s 2021 MLB Franchise Valuations report includes a feature story as well as an interactive data visualization display. Below is a rank-order …
SporticoSports Industry Interactive Data Viz Chart for All 30 MLB Franchise Valuations Sportico - Lev Akabas Explore Sportico's 2021 MLB Franchise Valuations with this interactive data visualization.
SporticoNew York Yankees New York Yankees Top Sportico’s 2021 MLB Valuations at $6.75 Billion Sportico - Kurt Badenhausen Major League Baseball has taken its lumps the past decade. An audience too old, a game too slow and a dearth of marketable stars have it doomed, …
SporticoTaijuan Walker Mets’ Taijuan Walker Blazes Big-League Trail With First NFT Sale Sportico - Randall Williams New York Mets starting pitcher Taijuan Walker has jumped into the suddenly booming non-fungible token (NFT) space, becoming the the first active …
Sportico Ancestry.com Ruling Draws on EA Sports, MLB Highlights to Deny Claim Sportico - Michael McCann In an interesting case with sports industry ties, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler on March 1 dismissed a lawsuit brought by two California …
Sportico Teams Using AI as the New Moneyball to Manage Injury and Lineups Sportico - Brendan Coffey Come Opening Day, when a manager takes the slow walk to the mound to pull his starting pitcher, will it be because of a gut feeling about his ace or …
Sportico FanDuel and WAVE.tv Ink Social Media-Driven Sports Betting Partnership Sportico - Eben Novy-Williams Digital media start-up WAVE.tv is partnering with FanDuel to help the sportsbook acquire new customers through social media. Under the deal, WAVE.tv …
Sportico Mets Hire Chief Revenue Officer Jeff Deline Away From Maple Leafs and Raptors Sportico - Eben Novy-Williams The New York Mets have hired Jeff Deline, an executive with Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, as their new chief revenue officer, according to …
Sportico Tatis Deal Highlights Big-Market Ambition of Padres’ Owner Seidler Sportico - Barry M. Bloom Peter Seidler is a recent two-time survivor of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and at 61 years old, the San Diego Padres owner knows there’s no time like the …
Sportico Jock Pay Advance Deals Test Hedging Skills of Investors, Athletes and Agents Sportico - JohnWallStreet Fernando Tatis Jr., is going to be a very wealthy man after officially signing a 14-year, $340 million contract extension with the San Diego Padres …
Sportico MLB’s Newly Altered Baseball May Change Game’s Analytics Approach Sportico - Barry M. Bloom Major League Baseball has slightly altered the specifications of the baseball heading into spring training and the 2021 season. And veteran manager …
Sportico High-Spending Dodgers Still Class of MLB Despite Pressure From Padres Sportico - Barry M. Bloom After an offseason of fits and starts, spring training opens Wednesday with pitchers and catchers reporting to camps, and the World Series-winning …
Sportico MLB Keeps DH and Expanded Playoffs on the Negotiating Table Sportico - Barry M. Bloom Neither the universal designated hitter nor expanded playoffs were a part of the 2021 health and safety protocols announced this week by MLB and the …
Sportico MLB’s 2021 Rules: NL DH Thrown Out but 7-Inning Doubleheaders Stay Sportico - Barry M. Bloom There will not be a designated hitter in the National League this season nor an extended postseason format, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players …
Sportico ESPN-MLB Haggling Shows Growing Value of Broadcast Exclusivity Sportico - JohnWallStreet Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic recently reported that Major League Baseball, after receiving significant increases in pacts with Fox Sports (+36%) and …
Sportico D-backs and Rockies Announce Spring Training Tickets Sales as Baseball Inches Forward Sportico - Barry M. Bloom In the surest sign that spring training is coming to Arizona and Florida, the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies announced Wednesday they are …
Sportico MLB Season to Start on Time After Union Rejects Owners’ Proposal for Delay Sportico - Barry M. Bloom The Major League Baseball Players Association on Monday night rejected a proposal from the owners to delay the start of the season by a month and …
Sportico Ryan Zimmerman and Ryan Howard Implicated in Al Jazeera Court Filing Sportico - Michael McCann A newly unsealed court document in the ongoing federal defamation lawsuit brought by Washington Nationals first baseman Ryan Zimmerman and retired …
Sportico Springer Signing Loosens Baseball Free Agent Market as Teams Choose Roles Sportico - Barry M. Bloom Major League Baseball’s free agent market is beginning to heat up as the now nearly certain report date of Feb. 16 for pitchers at spring training …
Sportico Mets and Cubs’ Front Offices Under Pressure After Porter Scandal Sportico - Barry M. Bloom Steve Cohen, the new Mets owner whose hedge fund company has been accused of gender discrimination and cultivating a sexist work culture, took swift …
SporticoFrancisco Lindor Lindor Open to Long-Term Mets Deal Before Spring Training as CBA Looms Sportico - Barry M. Bloom Francisco Lindor said Monday morning he’s open to negotiating a long-term contract with the New York Mets. But the four-time American League All-Star …
