Yanks Slash Ticket Prices
WhoDaThunkIt.com? The New York Yankees slashed prices on more than 40 percent of their front-row seats by up to 50 percent Tuesday and announced many …
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Tracking Changes in MLB Baseball Attendance
Baseball-Reference.com has a handy page (HT to JC Bradbury) where they are tracking changes in MLB team attendance. It calculates overall attendance, per-game attendance, and …
Baseball Healthy In Spite of Declining World Series Viewership
While Yankees v. Dodgers would been MLB’s dream television matchup for the World Series, the Red Sox v. Cardinals setup is likely better than most. …
Something for Everybody: MLB’s Mechanism Design
Continuing my recent Yankees theme … in a curiously long post on his blog, SI writer Joe Posnanski considers the effect of MLB’s playoff structure …
Migration of the All-Star Game
In response to concerns about potential racial profiling of its players, 27% of whom are of Hispanic origin, the Major League Baseball Players Association today …
MLB Umps: Evaluated but not Incentivized
The egregiously poor call against in the Yankees-Orioles game when Mark Texeira slid into first base throws attention back on to several issues with MLB …
Luxury Tax Paid by Yankees and Tigers
The New York Yankees (surprise, surprise) have to pay MLB’s luxury tax this year. So do the Detroit Tigers. The New York Yankees not only …
Steroid Use and HOF Debate Heats Up
This afternoon, MLB.com posted the results of this year’s Hall of Fame balloting. This has been an ongoing interest of mine partly because of the …
The World is Not Enough
Ryan Jazayerli at Grantland offers a thorough and insightful survey of the demise of the Astros in “Rock Bottom in H-Town.” Many turns to the …
Estimates of MLB’s “Stadium Effect”
A quick follow-up to Take Me Out to the (New) Ballpark. I appreciate the comments and I find the shared experiences and emotions from teams/stadiums …