“Selig believes last year’s new owners-players agreement, which raises the luxury tax on free-spending ballclubs — returning money to smaller-market clubs — will help, he said, to ‘level the playing field’ for teams such as Detroit. “
Detroit’s revenue problems have nothing to do with being a small market club. Detroit’s revenue problems come from being really really bad. Illitch spent a whole bunch of his money (or borrowed money) on Comerica. Most nights, even when there is a game it sits vacant. Things won’t get any better for the Tigers if the money the Tigers get from revenue sharing goes into paying off stadium debt instead of improving the team.