Royals worth $700M according to Forbes

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Originally Posted by 58kcfan89

I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to financial stuff beyond payroll, but would that 3rd-worst value have more to do with the team's failures over the last 20 years (last year notwithstanding) or just KC being a smaller market?

Probably both.

Regardless of all these numbers, the big killer is the TV deal. The Royals are locked in a $20M/year TV contract through 2019, meanwhile the local TV money has taken off. For instance, the Diamondbacks got a $1.5 billion-plus dollar TV contract this offseason. That'll probably give them about 80M a year. Even winning a World Series isn't going to make up that difference. Other teams are going to have a 40-50M head start before selling a ticket. So yeah Glass has made a ton of money, but so has everyone else.