Good day BP Readers,
We just lately met with our possession and wished to give you an replace on the state of issues at Baseball Prospectus and our plans for the longer term.
To get straight to the core of it: Like quite a lot of locations with our enterprise mannequin, our subscriptions have tailed off a bit over the past 1-2 seasons. It’s nothing dire in the mean time, but in addition one thing we need to be aggressive about remedying. One answer obtainable to us is to lift the value of our subscription—we’ve been informed many instances by readers that they’d pay extra for the worth that we ship.
We’ve solely ever raised charges as soon as in our historical past—in 2017, from $40 to $45.95 for a premium subscription. I don’t need to do this, although. Except there’s legitimately no different choice, our desire is to maintain our subscription as accessible and reasonably priced as doable. It’s a problem to maintain our costs as static as they’ve been (apparently there’s this factor referred to as inflation?), however a problem value pursuing.
To make it doable, we have to have a much bigger subscriber base than we presently do. As huge a footprint as we’ve within the trade, you is perhaps shocked to study we’ve someplace a bit north of 6,000 subscribers, together with our month-to-month supporters. We’re priced like we’ve double that determine. If we might add a thousand…or be nonetheless our hearts…two?…it could make a major influence in our capability to retain the present worth level and preserve BP obtainable to as many individuals as doable.
We’re so grateful to the various, many individuals who’ve provided up a testimonial on social media the previous couple of days and weeks, selling BP and telling individuals why it’s an incredible worth. And we’re going to do my greatest to maintain a subscription to Baseball Prospectus a no brainer selection. We simply want your assist in getting the phrase out—let your loved ones, your pals, your followers, and even simply somebody on the road in a baseball hat know the way good the product is right here. We’re assured that our work speaks for itself, however we’d like individuals to listen to it, first.
No matter this case, we’ve huge issues deliberate for 2025. That features updates to our leaderboards and participant playing cards, new sequence from our extremely gifted authors, new pitching metrics, and a few enjoyable and high quality updates to PECOTA, amongst different issues. Any further subscriber helps us preserve costs proper the place they’re and see by extra of our targets, quicker, due to our possession being so, so good about reinvesting every thing again into the corporate.
We’ve bought a lot good things, and we simply need to carry it to as many individuals as doable, at an reasonably priced worth. We’re so grateful to these of you already serving to us do this, and grateful prematurely to anybody keen to unfold the phrase.
As a reminder, you’ll be able to present a subscription fairly simply, or refer somebody to our subscription web page. And sure, BP360 is right here!
—BP EditorsCraig Goldstein, Patrick Dubuque, Ginny Searle
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