Urban
Hall-of-Famer
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2009
- Messages
- 7,941
- Reaction score
- 11,049
- Points
- 123
from 2003-2015, the Royals sold 56% of possible tickets, Indians have sold 51% at a bigger seated stadium (It was larger before the 2015 renovation now it is smaller). Royals went 948-1158 and 8 of the season was 90 or more losses. The Indians have gone 1036-1070 and had 4 seasons of 90 or more losses. The Indians have not had a losing season since 2013 but yet rank one of the worst in attendance for baseball.
Aka my point is this if the trades were done before the season started, the Royals fans would have still showed up and supported the team. We signed the top free agent hitter this past offseason and we are still at the bottom in attendance. If we decided to sale instead of buy, we wouldn't have had any fans show up since they still don't show up to ball games even though we are one of the best clubs in baseball.
Is 56% attendance supposed to be impressive? That's gotta be bottom 20% of the league during that time. They're not that St. Louis Cardinals who draw 40k every year even if the team is mediocre.
Their attendance is down 4k from last year and nearly 6k since 2015, their fans are literally hopping off the bandwagon.
Obviously the Indians would like attendance to be better, but they just aren't drawing fans through the week. They have averaged over 30k on the weekend for June and July.