With the new Fox TV deal paying out a reported $5.1 billion dollars for 2022-2028, MLB will be getting a nearly 30% boost from their existing broadcast agreement.
A lot of the early reaction to this news focused on whether these new dollars would be leading to bigger free agent contracts, or whether it would (more likely) just increase the bottom line of wealthy team owners. It’s hard to find baseball commentators or fans who hope to simply see richer owners, and obviously Fox isn’t paying to broadcasting 3 hours of Joe Buck discussing Art Moreno’s winter home.