Guggenheim bought the team about 10-12 years ago. $2 billion. Immediately spent money to get competitive but not great. People like Adrian Gonzales. Josh Beckett. Reclamations like Justin Turner.
Obviously they’ve built into a powerhouse now. But are playing the deferred contract game.
Looking at the patriots and the warriors the values of their teams peaked when they went on their runs. And plateaued I would guess we will see the following.
dodgers win a couple more championships. Be able to claim the greatest post season streak and run of success in the sports history. Like 20 years in a row and 4-5 championships over a 10-12 year span.
Value of the team both w time and success goes up to $6 billion
Guggenheim sells a majority of the team for $4 billion. Keeps their original $2 billion in it. Dodgers dip due to deferrals but make it to the end of their tv deal. They sign a new massive deal that may even include international money. The new media deal justifies the value of the team or elevates it. Just like frank the Boston parking lot guys tv deal on his exit secured the $2 billion original value.
Once that second media deal is signed la will be worth about 9-12 billion. Guggenheim cashes out of their last 33% and walks away with 3-4 billion more
For their 20-25 year dodger run and relationship Guggenheim will have had a lot of fun. Won 4-5 championships. Had 6-7 hall of famers spend most of their career with La. Kershaw freeman Betts ohtani and perhaps two others. Snell? Someone else?
And Guggenheim will have spent $2 billion and walked away with $8 billion
Not a bad couple of decades of work. And these people are detailed and meticulous. I have no doubt they have it all planned out
Very interesting opinion….makes a lot of sense.
Would be another case of really smart business people doing really smart business.
With these giant deferred salaries they seem to have a different strategy then most ownership groups.
The other giant risk is Dodgers have to keep hitting walk off grand slams in the WS. No one likes a loser. Dodgers were a few innings away from being blown up this off season.
Interesting projection that makes sense. If we get two or more titles I can hardly complain about the deferrals and a potential dip in competitiveness down the road.
When Guggenheim bought the Dodgers(finalized during the 2012 season) they had a decent nucleus with Kershaw already winning Cy Youngs, Matt Kemp had nearly just won MVP, Ethier was still good. A team that had gone two straight NLCS's a few years earlier. Manny Ramirez was gone, and the team was not competing for titles anymore though. Their first move was trading for Hanley Ramirez who replaced Manny's bat, then traded for Adrian Gonzales, and signed Zack Grienke before the 2013 season. That team was off and running, never missed the playoffs starting with that group.
You know you’re rich when you are rehabbing and flipping a sports team. I always wanted to buy and flip a small community bank but a sports team? Cha ching. Brilliant.