BP Announcement: Forthcoming Price Change for BP Memberships

We all know that every thing has continued to get increasingly costly lately. This is applicable to every thing from streaming subscriptions to groceries to sneakers—nothing feels unaffected. And whereas the world round us has gotten more difficult to maintain up with, Baseball Prospectus has tried to be an outlier. Whereas our rivals raised costs to maintain up with rising prices, we tried to leverage our subscription progress into preserving us afloat, and our work accessible, throughout a rising financial tide. And this labored effectively sufficient for a few years.

Our choice could be to function at a bigger scale with a decrease subscription price—this isn’t a enterprise constructed on extracting each attainable greenback. Nevertheless, beginning in 2023, our progress started to plateau and it has not improved since. This leaves us no selection however to lift our costs so as to proceed providing you with the breadth of baseball evaluation that you just’ve come to anticipate at Baseball Prospectus. We won’t accept offering you with any much less. When the location began, a subscription price $40 per 12 months. On the buying energy of a greenback alone, that $40 from 2003 works out to round $71 lately, not accounting for different price will increase. Whereas different baseball websites have, understandably, seen their costs go up by over 100% simply within the final decade, we stored our costs as little as attainable for so long as we moderately may.

We’ve got not taken this train calmly and our senior administration crew has spent the final six months figuring out how we are able to hold the enterprise each operational and wholesome. Our finances for personnel has gone up practically 50%, web-hosting prices elevated virtually 80%, and insurance coverage, accounting, and software program prices have additionally steadily risen. Regardless of that, we didn’t contact our subscription worth, as a result of our choice is to succeed in the most individuals with one of the best publicly accessible baseball analysis. Sadly, the inflection level is right here.

So, beginning January 1, we’re updating costs and altering our subscription mannequin barely to offer you much more worth to your subscription. Our plan is to lift the worth as soon as, to keep away from a trickle of will increase that we’ve frustratingly seen from different service suppliers. The 2-tier construction will stay in place, and whereas the Premium model will embrace the entire issues you’ve already come to anticipate from BP, the Tremendous Premium tier may have additions we expect you’ll take pleasure in. The small print are beneath:

Premium: $74.95/12 months. This tier consists of every thing your present Premium subscription does—all of our written content material, statistical instruments, and PECOTA.

Tremendous-Premium: $99.95/12 months. This tier consists of every thing you get with Premium plus our Bat Sign fantasy answering service and two new choices. First is early entry to PECOTA, together with inside our on-line instruments (the AX, leaderboards, SSDA, and so forth). The second is on-line and searchable entry to the whole present 12 months’s BP Annual, which can proceed to be up to date through the pre-season with probably the most present enjoying time projections.

We’ll proceed to supply a month-to-month subscription, and that new worth can be $19.95/month. Moreover, beginning subsequent 12 months, we are going to provide our BP360 promotion all 12 months, which can embrace every thing that Tremendous-Premium consists of and in addition comes with a bodily guide and a t-shirt. For this 12 months, we are going to proceed the BP360 promotion unchanged, individually (accessible now).

We proceed to imagine it’s a particularly whole lot. Your subscription helps dozens of award-winning authors and analysts, who mix to supply greater than 100 articles every month, on a breadth of topics, so there’s certain to be one thing you’ll take pleasure in on the location every morning. You get prospect protection, each on a day-to-day foundation via the Minor League Replace, in addition to the highest prospect lists by Jeffrey Paternostro and the prospect crew, that are already underway. You get recommendation and reflections by professional league-winning fantasy writers, with the 2026 positional previews coming as soon as the calendar turns over.

On the options facet, we’ll proceed to offer the mixture of deep statistical evaluation and whimsy which have outlined BP since its very inception. Your assist permits us to offer our authors the power to go lengthy on sequence reminiscent of Rob Mains’ Across the League in 90 Days, Patrick Dubuque’s retrospective transaction evaluation sequence TA06, and Matt Trueblood’s detailed and incisive Recreation Day breakdowns. You’ll nonetheless get insightful statistical evaluation from Trueblood, Tim Jackson, Daniel R. Epstein, Bradley Woodrum, and Mario Delgado Genzor, the considerate historic perspective of Steve Goldman, the newest on the league’s company conduct and labor state of affairs from Marc Normandin, the league-wide trend-watching of Mains, the sharp wit of Justin Klugh, transaction evaluation by Andrew Mearns, and the day by day recap sequence Field Rating Banter, amongst different featured writers and matters. All of that is powered by the analysis and growth crew that undergirds a lot of what we do, offering proprietary and envelope-pushing statistics, together with our flagship Deserved Run metrics, in addition to our newer StuffPro and arsenal metrics. Our editorial crew of Dubuque, Craig Goldstein, and Ginny Searle will proceed to offer commentary and criticism on the newest information.

And it’s that final line merchandise that deserves underscoring. Baseball Prospectus is, because it started, a worker-owned enterprise, unbiased in funds and unbiased in spirit. In a world the place the destiny of the media seems even grimmer than the destiny of the financial system, the place newspapers and critics are vanishing, or being purchased out by the powers they’re meant to cowl, we need to struggle the tide. We started as baseball outsiders, and we need to keep baseball outsiders, to have the ability to present you goal evaluation, pushed by neither mandate nor clicks. In an period the place ad-driven income is dying and the idea of every thing being free on the web is fading away, our mannequin is the one path ahead for creating a high quality product at a good worth, and that’s all we’ve ever wished to do. (OK, perhaps one different factor.)

As a present subscriber, we really hope you see the worth in Baseball Prospectus. Even at this new worth (which solely takes impact as soon as your subscription ends, as of 1/1/2026), we’re nonetheless cheaper than comparable publications, whereas offering high-quality day by day content material from the authors you realize and love. With a sustainable enterprise mannequin, we are going to proceed to not solely present that platform for years to return, however be capable to actively work on enhancements to the location.

Thanks to your continued assist of Baseball Prospectus.