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Taking a deeper look at MLB’s loss claims reveals lots of issues

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Major League Baseball presented the Major League Baseball Players Association this past week in their meetings that MLB projected a $640,000 per game loss if there were no fans allowed in the ballparks and teams had to pay the players pro-rated per game salaries. That was reported by Ronald Blum of the Associated Press over the weekend. Even in that report that was leaked we immediately saw that Major League Baseball wasn’t exactly being truthful with their numbers. Within the presentation it noted that the “loss” didn’t include media distribution from MLB’s central office that totaled $1.