Hiya BP Readers,
We just lately met with our possession and needed to offer 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 numerous locations with our enterprise mannequin, our subscriptions have tailed off a bit during the last 1-2 seasons. It’s nothing dire in the intervening time, but in addition one thing we need to be aggressive about remedying. One answer out there to us is to boost the worth of our subscription—we’ve been instructed many occasions 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 try this, although. Except there’s legitimately no different choice, our choice 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 known as inflation?), however a problem value pursuing.
To make it doable, we have to have an even bigger subscriber base than we at present do. As large a footprint as we’ve got within the trade, you may be shocked to study we’ve got someplace a bit north of 6,000 subscribers, together with our month-to-month supporters. We’re priced like we’ve got double that determine. If we may add a thousand…or be nonetheless our hearts…two?…it will make a big affect in our skill to retain the present worth level and maintain BP out there to as many individuals as doable.
We’re so grateful to the numerous, many individuals who’ve supplied up a testimonial on social media the previous few days and weeks, selling BP and telling individuals why it’s an ideal worth. And we’re going to do my finest to maintain a subscription to Baseball Prospectus a no brainer alternative. 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 understand how 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 got large issues deliberate for 2025. That features updates to our leaderboards and participant playing cards, new sequence from our extremely proficient authors, new pitching metrics, and a few enjoyable and high quality updates to PECOTA, amongst different issues. Any further subscriber helps us maintain costs proper the place they’re and see by means of extra of our objectives, quicker, because of our possession being so, so good about reinvesting every thing again into the corporate.
We’ve bought a lot great 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 try this, and grateful prematurely to anybody keen to unfold the phrase.
As a reminder, you possibly can reward 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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