Whats up 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 long run.
To get straight to the core of it: Like loads of locations with our enterprise mannequin, our subscriptions have tailed off a bit during the last 1-2 seasons. It’s nothing dire in the mean time, but additionally one thing we need to be aggressive about remedying. One resolution accessible to us is to lift the value of our subscription—we’ve been instructed 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 try this, although. Except there may be legitimately no different possibility, our desire is to maintain our subscription as accessible and inexpensive as potential. 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 potential, we have to have an even bigger subscriber base than we at present do. As massive a footprint as we have now within the business, you could be shocked to study we have now someplace a bit north of 6,000 subscribers, together with our month-to-month supporters. We’re priced like we have now double that determine. If we might add a thousand…or be nonetheless our hearts…two?…it could make a big affect in our skill to retain the present worth level and preserve BP accessible to as many individuals as potential.
We’re so grateful to the numerous, many individuals who’ve provided up a testimonial on social media the previous few days and weeks, selling BP and telling individuals why it’s an excellent worth. And we’re going to do my greatest 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 folks, 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 have now massive 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 preserve costs proper the place they’re and see by extra of our targets, sooner, because of our possession being so, so good about reinvesting all the pieces again into the corporate.
We’ve acquired a lot good things, and we simply need to carry it to as many individuals as potential, at an inexpensive 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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