Yankees team president Randy Levine gave a lengthy interview with ESPN Radio on Monday, addressing many facets of the current lockout and CBA negotiations. Among the many comments he made, one that struck a particular chord with the wider baseball world centered around the money coming into MLB—or, as Levine framed it, the lack thereof.
“People seem to think that all this money that’s come into Major League Baseball, that we’ve recouped all the losses from COVID, and everything is back to the way it was. Nothing is farther from the truth,” Levine said. “Speaking for the Yankees, the highest revenue team, we didn’t have fans in the stands for a year and a half.