Disregarding any specific examples, it just means there doesn’t have to be one approach. There’s so much we don’t understand about the business of baseball, we can only comment on how WAR saavy something is.
Like have you ever read Texas’s tv contract, like what if there is a lot of money at stake in terms of money outside the guarantees, like with ratings and such. Or teams negotiating the contract. Or an owner that wants to win now and he understands the contract they’re signing isnt objectively smart.
The most important thing to know.. is franchise values haven’t absolutely exploded because of their bottoms lines. It’s a trophy asset and all about the image in the end