{"id":20333,"date":"2013-03-28T14:21:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T18:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20333"},"modified":"2013-03-28T14:21:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T18:21:58","slug":"forbes-rays-have-least-value-among-mlb-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20333","title":{"rendered":"Forbes: Rays Have Least Value Among MLB Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Forbes magazine on Wednesday estimated the Tampa Bay Rays have the lowest value among the 30 Major League Baseball teams.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Yankees have the highest value for the 16th straight year at $2.3 billion, and the average for an MLB team increased by 23 percent in the last year to $744 million, the magazine said.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays came up last with a value of $451 million. Tampa Bay took in $167 million worth of revenue in 2012, Forbes reported. However, the magazine noted the team\u2019s ability to overcome the financial hardship on the field.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers are second in MLB at $1.62 billion \u2014 nearly $400 million below the price paid for the team last May when a group headed by <strong>Mark Walter<\/strong>, <strong>Stan Kasten<\/strong> and<strong> Magic Johnson<\/strong> bought the franchise from <strong>Frank McCourt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Forbes magazine on Wednesday estimated the Tampa Bay Rays have the lowest value among the 30 Major League Baseball teams. The New York Yankees have the highest value for the 16th straight year at $2.3 billion, and the average for an MLB team increased by 23 percent in the last year to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}