Kansas City Royals: Worth $341 million

Bet you thought that losing nearly a hundred games annually would hurt the Royals’ value. Hahahaha. No.

The Royals didn’t crack the top 10 (it wasn’t even close) of Forbes’ annual rankings of most valuable Major League Baseball franchises, but the boys in powder blue actually jumped 14 percent in value to $341 million. That makes them the 24th most valuable franchise in baseball.

Forbes’ write-up was scathing (“Few franchises have squandered the fortune they have

gotten from baseball’s revenue sharing system as much as the Royals”) but not full of surprises.