It’s easy to romanticize baseball as a child’s game played by men, but that soft-focus schtick goes out the window when those men make millions and their employers make billions. Major League Baseball is a business, one that aims to generate as much collective revenue as possible, and sometimes we are reminded of that reality.
This winter has made Cubs players and fans acutely aware of just how much of a business the game really is, with the team ratcheting down the budget in a presumed attempt to save tens of millions in revenue sharing and tax penalties.