Hiya BP Readers,
We not too long ago met with our possession and wished 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 a whole lot 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 meanwhile, but in addition one thing we wish to be aggressive about remedying. One answer out there to us is to boost the value of our subscription—we’ve been informed 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. Until there’s legitimately no different possibility, our choice is to maintain our subscription as accessible and reasonably priced as attainable. 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 attainable, we have to have a much bigger subscriber base than we at present do. As massive a footprint as we’ve got within the business, you may be stunned to be taught 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 might add a thousand…or be nonetheless our hearts…two?…it might make a big impression in our capability to retain the present value level and hold BP out there to as many individuals as attainable.
We’re so grateful to the numerous, many individuals who’ve provided up a testimonial on social media the previous couple of days and weeks, selling BP and telling folks why it’s an awesome worth. And we’re going to do my finest 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 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 folks to listen to it, first.
No matter this example, we’ve got massive issues deliberate for 2025. That features updates to our leaderboards and participant playing cards, new collection 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 hold costs proper the place they’re and see by extra of our objectives, quicker, due to our possession being so, so good about reinvesting every thing again into the corporate.
We’ve bought a lot good things, and we simply wish to deliver it to as many individuals as attainable, at an reasonably priced value. We’re so grateful to these of you already serving to us try this, and grateful upfront to anybody keen to unfold the phrase.
As a reminder, you may present 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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