I would have never presumed we were an elite franchise in valuation, but less than the Colorado Rockies and the Milwaukee Brewers? lol
Here is the methodology that say they use to arrive at this:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/methodology-cnbcs-official-mlb-team-valuations-2025.html
Which looks very deep and detailed, until they get to the very last sentence:
Sources for CNBC’s Official MLB Team Valuations 2025 include team owners, investors and executives; sports bankers and league consultants; public documents such as ballpark lease agreements, ballpark authority budgets and audits, and credit rating reports; and sponsorship and broadcasting industry executives. Figures that could not be independently verified are CNBC estimates.
Since 28 of 30 teams are privately-held without publicly information available about their actual business, this could range anywhere from a few straggling factoids to the vast majority of their data.
That said, is it possible that the Tigers could be merely the 24th of the 30 teams based on some of the other publicly held such as credit rating reports and the estimations of “league consultants”? Sure, I guess.