Lots of you might have seen that our long-running Offseason Outlook collection is now part of our paid Commerce Rumors Entrance Workplace service.
I perceive this transformation has been jarring for some, and I apologize for not offering a heads up. It’s a everlasting change, and subsequent spring’s Offseason in Assessment collection will likely be unique to Commerce Rumors Entrance Workplace subscribers as properly.
Our visitors declined in 2023 for the primary time in MLBTR’s historical past, and advert charges have been falling for roughly seven years. I made a decision to create Commerce Rumors Entrance Workplace in 2020 to shut the hole on advert income that’s not there.
Requiring a subscription to learn the Offseason Outlook collection was not a choice I made calmly. These posts take roughly three hours every to write down, and the vast majority of them obtain modest visitors. The advert income on the collection was not near protecting the time required to provide it. I take nice pleasure in our work on the Offseason Outlook collection, and I feel it’s price paying for.
Now we have a few different time-consuming main authentic offseason options that additionally don’t pay for themselves, in our arbitration projections and our Prime 50 Free Brokers record. I’ve no present plans to place these behind the paywall.
I feel we add lots of worth to information posts as properly, significantly on write-ups of main signings and trades. Information posts, which make up the overwhelming majority of MLBTR, stay free. A portion of our extra time-consuming opinion-based evaluation has been unique to subscribers for over 4 years now. Different authentic work, reminiscent of our latest free agent preview by place, stays free to all.
It may be troublesome to discover a steadiness and make the mathematics work. In case you’re right here strictly for the information, that’s nonetheless free. In case you discover worth in our evaluation and instruments and have the means, then I hope you’ll take into account a Commerce Rumors Entrance Workplace subscription.
I’ve not raised the worth on Commerce Rumors Entrance Workplace in four-plus years, whilst we’ve frequently added advantages. It stays $29.89 per yr. Advantages embrace:
- Advert-free looking expertise
- Unique weekly articles from Tim Dierkes, Steve Adams, and Anthony Franco
- Offseason Outlook and Offseason in Assessment collection protecting all 30 groups
- Unique weekly stay chat with Anthony
- GM-caliber instruments reminiscent of our MLB Contract Tracker and Company Database
- 100% money-back assure
MLBTR is approaching its nineteenth anniversary in November. It’s a privilege to do that for a dwelling, and we worth everybody who chooses to go to the positioning. I intend to proceed working MLBTR as an impartial small enterprise for so long as doable. Benefit from the playoffs; we’re laborious at work getting ready for an additional thrilling offseason!
