This is a good question. Somehow he never took the heat for all the massivge contracts he handed out to late-prime veterans  — everything got chalked up to “well, that’s just how the Yankees do business.”

To be fair, it’s also because the four other 2nd-6th place teams are all really fucking good.

Fiscal year 2016 ends today. So, these aren’t so much projections as preliminary estimates. Presumably, the jump is just higher-than-expected revenues from World Cup-related events (i.e. apparel sales, victory tour, etc.).