There were 48 million reasons to keep Alex Anthopoulos, all of them dollars, and by April that number could be closer to $70 million.
That’s how much the Blue Jays took in with ticket and merchandise sales between August and late October — all of that above what was budgeted for. And that’s not counting upcoming Christmas sales and new ticket buyers, all of which will certainly up those numbers for the coming season.
The economics alone are astounding in a corporate world in which bottom line figures trump all. But in this case, the architect of so many of the numbers will travel to Florida Monday to pick his baseball executive of the year award without a team to call his own.