Mark Belko

2 months ago | post-gazette.com | Mark Belko |Joe Starkey |Gene Collier |Jason Mackey

Forbes has released its annual valuations for each MLB team, and it should come as no surprise the Pirates rank near the bottom. Bob Nutting’s team is slotted in at 26th, ahead of only the Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Rays and Miami Marlins. Forbes has Pittsburgh’s franchise valued at $1.35 billion. The Nutting family purchased the team in 1992 for $92 million.

2 months ago | dailyitem.com | Mark Belko

Mar. 16—Over the past three years the Pittsburgh Pirates, under owner Bob Nutting, have made more money selling tickets, hot dogs, beer and other concessions at PNC Park than they've spent on the teams they've fielded. The Pirates collected $215.6 million in net ticket and concession revenues between 2022 and 2024. Over that same period, player salaries totaled $214 million — or about $1.6 million less, based on a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette analysis of the club's audited financial statements. kAmx?

2 months ago | post-gazette.com | Mark Belko

Over the past three years the Pittsburgh Pirates, under owner Bob Nutting, have made more money selling tickets, hot dogs, beer and other concessions at PNC Park than they’ve spent on the teams they’ve fielded. The Pirates collected $215.6 million in net ticket and concession revenues between 2022 and 2024. Over that same period, player salaries totaled $214 million — or about $1.6 million less, based on a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette analysis of the club’s audited financial statements.

2 months ago | post-gazette.com | Mark Belko |Madaleine Rubin

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2 months ago | post-gazette.com | Mark Belko

Southwest Airlines said Tuesday that it will begin charging customers a fee to check bags, abandoning a decades-long practice that executives had described last fall as key to differentiating the budget carrier from its rivals.