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[m3m]

It’s not the 90s anymore. The jays aren’t at risk of leaving

[Victoria Watcher]

The only place where GDP per capita would affect an mlb team is tickets and stadium revenue. Lower revenue would be offset by lower costs.

 

Player salary is the highest cost.  That will not be any smaller in Mexico.

[Victoria Watcher]

GDP per capita doesn’t matter. MLB teams get most of their revenue from media / tv deals and Mexican market is huge. 

 

[m3m]

Yes but the Mexican team would share the US market tv revenue

[m3m]

Player salary is the highest cost. That will not be any smaller in Mexico.

MLB has crazy disparity between team payroll. Nobody is expecting a Mexican team to outspend the Yankees or Dodgers.

The lowest MLB team payroll is the marlins at $78mil this year. Through revenue sharing and splitting the national tv deals (how socialist the all-American pastime is) teams automatically get more than that from MLB before a single pitch is thrown.

[Mike K.]

Sounds like a good market for the Whitecaps.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

Sounds like a good market for the Whitecaps.

 

Mexico used to have an MLS team.   But they played in LA.

[Mike K.]

Mexico universally loves soccer, at least.

And because of FIFA, a soccer team there would make more sense than a baseball team.

[m3m]

The whitecaps are moving mostly because of stadium issues not because of a market as a whole.

Baseball is easily the second biggest sport in Mexico. Lots of MLB players play in the Mexican winter league in the offseason. Mexico already has a very high quality baseball league (prob 4th globally after mlb, Japan, and korea).

I don’t think there’s any interest in a Mexican MLS team when the Liga MX exists. The previous MLS team in LA was just Mexican themed.

[Victoria Watcher]

The MLS team in LA was Mexican owned.

https://en.wikipedia...wiki/Chivas_USA

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 May 2026 - 11:30 AM.

[m3m]

Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, and Chelsea are owned by Americans.

Famously American clubs.

[Victoria Watcher]

A lot of teams in the UK are owned by Middle East people.

It all works out.

It always has.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 May 2026 - 11:38 AM.