{"id":315035,"date":"2025-11-26T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/315035\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:56:06","slug":"st-louis-cardinals-set-to-receive-mlb-revenue-sharing-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/315035\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Cardinals set to receive MLB revenue sharing for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Cardinals will \u201cbe a receiver\u201d this winter within the current MLB revenue-sharing system for the first time following a full season in at least 25 years and since the advent of the current program, which began in 1996, according to Derrick Goold of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. Relative to other recipients, the Cardinals\u2019 cut is \u201cexpected to be among the lowest.\u201d The team is eligible for a top-six pick in the upcoming MLB Draft Lottery because they \u201cwill be classified as a \u2018payee.\u2019\u201d On MLB\u2019s official site, the Cardinals are \u201clisted as a \u2018revenue-sharing recipient,\u2019 though the classifications are labeled \u2018preliminary.\u2019\u201d Finalized classifications are \u201cplanned for as soon as next Tuesday when payrolls calculations are complete.\u201d Primarily due to a second losing season in three years, the Cardinals \u201cexperienced a precipitous drop in ticket sales this past season.\u201d They fell from seventh overall in average ticket sales per game to 19th, at 27,777. The team\u2019s overall tickets dropped 21.6% to 2.3 million. Their ticket sales have dropped 30.6% since the 3.2 million sold in 2023. Their season-ticket base has \u201calso been trimmed.\u201d The Cardinals had to \u201crework their broadcast-rights deal\u201d a year ago with partner FanDuel Sports Network at a rate reduced by 23%, or about $17.3M, for this past season. The Cardinals remain on that renegotiated contract and are set with the same broadcast partner for 2027. The Cardinals have a bottom-five market score but for \u201cdecades outpaced that market size\u201d due to ticket sales and other revenue \u201crelated to fan support and the Cardinals\u2019 large, geographic fanbase\u201d (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 11\/26<\/a>).<\/p>\n

REWORK THE TEAM: Goold in a separate piece noted P Sonny Gray agreed to waive his no-trade clause to complete a deal to the Red Sox. In exchange for their top starter, the Cardinals received two young Ps in Richard Fitts and Brandon Clarke. A source noted that the team will cover $20M of Gray\u2019s salary for 2026. The remainder of Gray\u2019s contract did \u201cnot line up with the Cardinals\u2019 timetable for contending,\u201d but gaining Fitts\u2019 five seasons of control and Clarke\u2019s six \u201cwas appealing.\u201d So much so, the millions sent to Boston are \u201ceffectively an investment their cost-controlled contributions.\u201d The Cardinals continue to seek a trade that will send 3B Nolan Arenado elsewhere. The Cardinals are \u201cfollowing future-focused calculations\u201d as they receive trade interest from teams for 2B Brendan Donovan, P JoJo Romero, LF Lars Nootbaar and C\/1B Willson Contreras (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 11\/25<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Cardinals will \u201cbe a receiver\u201d this winter within the current MLB revenue-sharing system for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-315035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}