Anyway, this is what the new deal means to the Jays financially.
While individual teams each look after their own regional television broadcasts and earn separate money through these deals, money from national television is split evenly among all 30 teams. The new deal with ESPN ensures that each team receives more than $23 million a year from 2014 – 2021. The previous deal with ESPN worked out to $306 million per year, which meant that each team received over $10 million annually. With funds more than doubling, we may get a glimpse of the salary escalation we’ve been expecting sooner rather than later.
