Major League Baseball teams have been increasing in value exponentially over the last few years, and per Forbes Magazine’s annual accounting of those values, that continues in 2022.
The Cubs are listed as the fourth most valuable MLB team, with an estimated value of $3.8 billion. That’s nearly $3 billion more than the $845 million the Ricketts family paid for the team in October 2009. Forbes says that’s a 13 percent increase over last year and that the Cubs had operating income of $68 million in 2021.
The three MLB teams ranked as more valuable: Yankees ($6 billion, MLB’s first $6 billion team), Dodgers ($4.