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Support MLBTR With An Ad-Free Subscription

By Tim Dierkes | September 22, 2020 at 10:55pm CDT

If you’re a regular MLB Trade Rumors reader, we hope you’ll consider an ad-free subscription.  For the entirety of its existence, MLBTR has been an independently-owned, ad-supported website.  We hope to chip away at that reliance on ad networks with a base of loyal subscribers, ensuring the longevity and independence of the site.  Check out the full benefits of membership – including Tim Dierkes’ weekly mailbag – here!

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  1. bobtillman

    5 years ago

    Oh well, I’m on the site enough….had to give up my subscription to ‘Druid Princesses Do Denmark” tho…..

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    • Srechter35

      5 years ago

      “That’s all we need, a Druish princess.”

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      • bobtillman

        5 years ago

        Mel Brooks, is that you? Is that you. Mel?????

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      • Tom1968

        5 years ago

        Funny, she doesnt look druish..

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        • swinging wood

          5 years ago

          This is getting very politically incorrect. Let’s stop, please.

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        • Tom1968

          5 years ago

          Never seen spaceballs ?

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    • FredMcGriff for the HOF

      5 years ago

      Bring back the downvote and I’ll think about it.

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  2. CKinSTL

    5 years ago

    In addition to the subscription option, have you thought about just accepting contributions? Fangraphs has that option (plus they sell some merch too).

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  3. davemlaw

    5 years ago

    I was one of the first to sign up for this and I’m very happy I did.

    I’m on the site quite a bit and was annoyed with all the ads. Plus, I like contributing to a source of info that I use frequently.

    If you use the site often too I would encourage you to join!

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    • braves25

      5 years ago

      That’s funny. I am not a paying member and I don’t have an issue with any ads popping up.

      I’m on here multiple times every day. I’m very happy I didnt waste my money for a free site.

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  4. Marvels MagaMan

    5 years ago

    Pass. I’d consider it if there was some unique members only features that made it worth subscribing. But 99% of the stuff on this site is already free. Ads you can get rid of with an ad blocker on your web browser or phone.

    Things I haven’t seen but this site could offer members:

    Mock draft competition or mock trade competition; you already do free agent contest. Why not do a 1st round mock draft highest % wins or a traded to which team competition with the 50 trade targets you list every trade deadline.

    Interactive pieces where members can vote on topics they’d like to see covered.

    More in depth international pieces about players who could potentially make the jump to the MLB or return to the MLB from around the different leagues. Or vice versa…..guys in the minors who could look to seek opportunities overseas to build stock.

    More in depth international free agent pieces in advance of the free agent signing period July 2nd.

    Have a members only fantasy league via sponsored by MLBTR.

    Have a yearly mock expansion draft where members who win the top places in the draft competition, free agent competition, and trade competition get to draft for their expansion team. 6 teams and players pick city and mascot, approved by MLBTR.

    Need more user interactions aside from members chat only. Some suggestions. Incorporate more tweets from players, more videos from players, more social media stuff from players. For instance, im sure theres players constantly give updates about them recovering from serious injuries. Im sure some players tweet about what they’re doing while recovering from TJS or something.

    Feel free to use or expand upon my ideas.

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    • rondon

      5 years ago

      I feel like before they even offered a members subscription, this should have been a paid site. The writing is in-depth, consistent and current. They don’t blur it up with a lot of click bait garbage that many other sites do and it’s well known to be a reference site for sportswriters, baseball personnel and players. I would’ve signed up for membership without any of the benefits, especially now. If you can’t afford to do it, that’s completely understandable, but if you can, and this is a place you return to regularly, it’s the kind of business, imho, that should be supported.

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  5. MarlinsFanBase

    5 years ago

    When is the MLBTR Free Agent Contest going to be over? It’s clear that Yasiel Puig isn’t getting signed by anyone.

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  6. prov356

    5 years ago

    If I sign up, will I stop seeing ads about signing up?

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  7. goob

    5 years ago

    “Support MLBTR’s employees directly for just $29.99 per year! Our writers work tirelessly to create 15+ new posts per day, 365 days a year”

    I appreciate those writers, so supporting them seems like a reasonable proposition.
    So, loaded question here: Will any of that money go to support the presumably hard working NFL/NBA/NHL Rumors employees? Because as excellent as those writers no doubt are, I don’t read them at all. (Frankly, MLBTR – and MLB/MiLB itself – is enough of a time-suck habit for me already 🙂 so I avoid watching or following any and all other sports, almost entirely. But that’s just me.)

    Anyway, as happy as I’ve always been (and continue to be) with my non-subscriber ad-supported MLBTR experience, and as unimportant to me (personally) as the subscriber benefits are, I could justify (to myself) a $12 to $15 annual “MLBTR Baseball Writers Supporting Membership” that otherwise excludes the Rumors-Subscriber perks/benefits.
    (And if there’s any practical way to exclude access to me, as a “Baseball Writer Supporting Member”, from those other Rumors sports sections, you could do that too, if you want.)

    Whaddaya say?

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    • goob

      5 years ago

      And for anyone else out there who might otherwise agree with this way of just supporting the baseball writers, except that you feel like such a “supporting membership” should be acknowledged in the comments section, well maybe there could be a different insignia for that – or really you could just go ahead and become a full subscriber.

      Reply

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