Did every MLB team make a profit in 2012?

180 games means more chances for more money

Salaries are expenses, debt would be stadium, etc.

ETA - Even long term commitments would be expenses provided the team has reason to believe the services contracts will be honored. Now a player that was cut, I'm not sure how that plays into it. Or a situation like Albert Belle and my Orioles where we were paying him 6 years after he was deemed medically unable to play (but a portion of his contract was insured)

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Also, an interesting note. The ATL braves have a grand total of ZERO debt.

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Just in terms of being a large business, not just a baseball team, this seems difficult to do.

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Did every MLB team make a profit in 2012?

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considering that the ownership groups do not open their books, nor do they have an obligation to do so, this is a pretty pointless question

How Billionaires Like Warren Buffett Profit From Minor League Baseball Ownership

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And Buffett isn’t the league’s only billionaire owner, either. Robert E. Rich, Jr., who made his $2.1 billion with food conglomerate Rich Products, owns the Buffalo Bisons (No. 13); Herb Simon, chairman and director of Simon Property – the nation’s largest publicly traded real estate investment trust – is a co-owner of the Reno Aces (No. 14).

Why would some of the nation’s wealthiest men be interested in owning such small professional sports teams? Simple: it’s smart business.

Of the 160 minor league teams with player development contracts with MLB team, not one pays a single player, coach, manager or trainer. While the majority of MLB teams’ expenses go towards player costs, they are paid in full for minor league teams. The minor league squads don’t even pay the full cost for bats and balls; it’s split with the major league affiliate. It’s a sweet deal made even sweeter by the cities and counties that are willing to finance minor league stadiums in order to help stimulate their local economies.

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While even the top MiLB teams are worth a fraction of the $605 million that the typical MLB team is worth, minor league teams have often delivered spectacular returns because of the minimal investment required to buy one. Someone that paid $22 million for a team earning $4 million is roughly getting an 18% pretax return on capital.

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Plus while attending a baseball game, people use lots if cash. Cash for tickets, cash for beer, cash for food. If they're claiming a profit, you know there's even more money off the books from all the cash money

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Salaries are expenses, debt would be stadium, etc.

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It all depends on how they do their books. The players aren't typical employees. They directly generate revenue. Technically you could call them assets, the public european soccer teams consider them assets. The problem is lots of this info is either inside information or a guess. They are private entities and don't have to disclose their books.

Teams get their towns to build stadiums and the league bullies them around and threatens to leave. Its one of the few things I hate about MLB.

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Cash for tickets, cash for beer, cash for food. If they're claiming a profit, you know there's even more money off the books from all the cash money

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...actually this not really likely for an MLB team/franchise with debt and investors, subject to numerous annual audits by various parties