Hiya BP Readers,
We lately met with our possession and needed 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 loads 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 wish to be aggressive about remedying. One answer out there to us is to lift the value of our subscription—we’ve been advised 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 wish to try 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 price pursuing.
To make it doable, we have to have a much bigger subscriber base than we presently do. As massive a footprint as now we have within the business, you may be shocked to study now we have someplace a bit north of 6,000 subscribers, together with our month-to-month supporters. We’re priced like now we have double that determine. If we may add a thousand…or be nonetheless our hearts…two?…it will make a big affect in our potential to retain the present value level and preserve BP out there to as many individuals as doable.
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 folks why it’s an amazing 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 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 folks to listen to it, first.
No matter this example, now we have massive 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 extra subscriber helps us preserve costs proper the place they’re and see via extra of our targets, sooner, due to our possession being so, so good about reinvesting the whole lot again into the corporate.
We’ve bought a lot great things, and we simply wish to deliver it to as many individuals as doable, at an reasonably priced value. 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 may gift a subscription fairly simply, or refer somebody to our subscription page. And sure, BP360 can be out there quickly!
—BP Editors
Craig Goldstein, Patrick Dubuque, Ginny Searle
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