Hiya BP Readers,
We 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 long run.
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 for the time being, but in addition one thing we wish to be aggressive about remedying. One answer 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 wish to try this, although. Until there may be 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 an even bigger subscriber base than we at present do. As massive a footprint as we’ve within the business, you is likely to be stunned to be taught 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 may add a thousand…or be nonetheless our hearts…two?…it could make a big influence in our potential to retain the present worth level and maintain BP accessible 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 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 mates, 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 want individuals to listen to it, first.
No matter this case, we’ve 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 maintain costs proper the place they’re and see via extra of our objectives, sooner, due to our possession being so, so good about reinvesting every little thing again into the corporate.
We’ve acquired a lot good things, and we simply wish 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 prepared to unfold the phrase.
As a reminder, you may 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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