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I’ve read MLB Trade Rumors for the last 10 years and I love the Front Office Membership! My favorite part is definitely the weekly chats since there are less of us, it is way more personable and I get multiple questions answered every week usually! I’ve read you guys for free for a decade and now it’s my turn to pay up and it’s well worth it! – Griffin C.
MLB Trade Rumors is the first thing I read each morning, and I check back multiple times during the day to make sure I’m not missing any breaking baseball news. I know the site costs money to maintain, and the writers can’t live on air. So I’m happy to contribute to running the site, and view it as voluntarily paying my fair share. The extra content is nice also. One has a much better chance of getting a question answered in the smaller FO chats. Also the advertisement free experience is good too. – Tony M.
I’m really enjoying the access to exclusive content (articles and chats) that being a Front Office member brings. High quality, lockdown-friendly materials that we all need, now, more than ever. – Andrew R.
I wondered for years how MLBTR could operate with such a high level of writing and current news, for free. The added benefits that come with membership make the subscription fee a steal. – Marc B.
I was happy to pay to support them and look forward to continuing to participate in all their subscription benefits such as their weekly chats with their great writers. – Matt P.
These guys have been working hard to bring us the best most up to date baseball news for years. COVID has made things tough all around. I encourage everyone who can afford it, to help keep the ship afloat in tough times, by joining! – J. Allen
I’ve been a huge fan of MLB Trade Rumors since Day One and when the option of becoming a paid subscriber came about, I did not hesitate! – Jimmy A.
No ads is awesome but the real icing on the cake is the premium, professional insight we get that the normal site doesn’t show. – Daniel M.
$0.83 a day, $2.50 a month for baseball content you can’t find anywhere else, NO brainer. – Bernie
One of my very best investments of 2020. – R. Clark
The exclusive member emails and chats are great. They really make me feel like I’m part of a larger community. – Joe P.
My MLBTR subscription is well worth the money! No ads and subscriber exclusive content combined with helping support MLBTR is a home run! – Jason T.
My favorite baseball content site; especially during hot-stove season. Happy to support the great work they’re doing, and the premium experience they offer is great and well worth the nominal price. – Drew B.
MLB Trade Rumors is the first site I go to every morning for updates on baseball transactions, and it’s the site I check in with several times a day to be sure I’m up to date on the latest news. And being a Front Office member builds on those benefits with members-only chats that greatly increase the odds of my questions being answered, Mailbags that allow me to send in questions that require more time and words to answer compared to a chat, and exclusive long-form articles diving deeper into various topics. The benefits Front Office provides are definitely worth the price. – Greg S.
MLBTR Front Office is the single best source of not only all things baseball, but also provides the most intelligent insight anywhere. If ever there was a web site worthy of reasonable subscription, it’s MLBTR! – Stephen M.
Best investment I’ve ever made when it comes to baseball. As a paid member of MLBTR I really feel like an insider. Private chats with paid members really feels like we are on the cutting edge of MLB happenings. – Stevie M.
Upgrading to the subscription base model is well worth the investment, which by the way is minimal. Plus I want to support hard working real baseball people who are providing me all the information I need in one place! Thanks MLBTR for all you do! – Tom M.
MLBTR, Hoops Rumors and Pro Football Rumors are my go-to for sports breaking news, forecasts, commentary and community discussion. The Front Office is a great value and excellent and exciting way for me to help support this content. – Dallin B.
MLBTR is, by far, the best place to keep track of MLB. I find myself checking in several times a day. The site is addictive. And now that I’ve paid a small amount I bypass all ads. A great investment for any committed fan. – Sandy G.
As a long time reader of MLBTR, becoming a subscriber was a good decision, a long time coming. I get access to additional chats and other unique features for the cost of a bottle of booze. Well worth your money. – John K.
They say the best things in life are free, but birds and bees don’t produce the great content on Trade Rumors! That takes hard work by real people! You can’t go wrong with a Front Office subscription to show how much you value that work and to get the excellent exclusive benefits of membership! – Michael M.
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Great to see all of the different testimonials from all kinds of different people. They all share a little different perspective on why they like the site as well which is great to see.
waiting for people finding excuses to trash on this article in 3…2…
I spent 2 hours writing mine it was only twelve pages long and you never used it, darn it all Tim! LOL happy now Darkside?
Is this one of the ads that gets blocked when I buy a subscription?
No
Still waiting for a discount to compensate for when I paid for the application when it first came out.
Stop trying to make “Fetch” happen. It’s not going to happen!
I meet my wife on this site and just had our first child and named him Tim!
Thanks MLB TRADE RUMORS!
Was I the only one that read this in an Eastern European accent?
I read it as Mike Golic doing a NutriSystem commercial, but, hey, to each his own.
Subscribing to MLBTR Front Office helped be lose 20 pounds of fat and gain 20 pounds of muscle in 20 days!
Fact-checking Bernie’s math and I think he meant to say $0.83 a week, not a day!
Throw my testimonial down: been coming here since maybe 2013-ish and it’s been my go-to source for baseball info (and, more and more, football and basketball) ever since. Here’s to continued success!
No, .083/day.
I mean, that’s not right, either. It’s 0.0819/day.
Congrats on getting Griffin Canning to buy a membership
And Jayson Tatum, Drew Brees, Andrew Romine, John Kruk. and Jerret Allen.
ESPN’s Ryan Clark and Mets Reliever Dallin Betances in there too, no? Big gets.
What about bringing things back like videos? Hasn’t been anything on the mlbtr YouTube channel since Jeff Todd left. I also miss the posts from Tim Dillard. Maybe find another player like that to write a few entries on here.
Both of those things are not profitable, so after covid I’m not as eager to pursue them.
That said, I am hatching plans for weekly videos on the channel.
When is the merchandise coming???
MLBTR Windbreakers!!!
Id buy a Peter O’Brien rave reviews tshirt
Mlbtr the FLAMETHROWER
‘The Blue Jays are Interested” blue hoodie would be fire.
Maybe a “Where’s Xabial?” T-shirt with his profile picture on a wanted poster type scheme.
I got ideas. Hit me up lol.
Alright.
The first meme I get.
But who or what is a “Xabiel”? I’ve seen this before. But I have no idea what it means.
If MLBTR went away, It would create a real void in my life. It’s always the first web site I go to in the morning, and I check in all during the day. I can trust MLBTR to find all the baseball roster news I’m interested in.
Join the Nintendo Power Fan Club today, Mac!
Please stop.
Stoked to help out. But no joke, for the price, you guys gain such a knowledgeable edge on elite ideas and rumors in the league that just don’t show up on the free sight. Plus without these guys, we’d be on Twitter waiting for Nightingale. So the support is worth the effort just to get wayyyyy better intel on what’s going on in the MLB
“$0.83 a day, $2.50 a month for baseball content you can’t find anywhere else, NO brainer. – Bernie”
.83×30 (is 24.90), or .83×365 (302.95)÷12 = 25.25/month.
Eitherway your BS system on a site that analyzes mathematics while begging for subscriptions is a joke. Come on guys. Someone has to do a little editing and catch this EASY math miss.
Come on man 29.89 divided by 12 months = 2.49; 29.89 Divided by 365 days = .82
$29.49/365= ~.08 cents a day not .82. Wreckage literally did the math in his post. You’re letting yourself look pretty dumb right now.
It’s Canadian math.
Remember when the announcers on CNN said with the last stimulus, they could have given each US citizen a million dollars each? Math is a lost art form.
Then they should have been issued calculators, @Gibsonfan because something ain’t adding up.
Breaking news… No one is on here for a math lesson.
I’m surprised this has to be breaking news.
Right?
Maybe not, but it seems like they probably need to be.
I’m not going to edit a subscriber’s testimonial. He made an error. It’s OK.
Sure, don’t edit it if it is in fact a real testimonial. But don’t post an erroneous post when its an error in your favor. That is misleading and unprofessional.
There’s something about a product being too cheap.. if Coke became 40 cents a bottle it would tank as a product.. pricing impacts value to a large extent. When Netflix goes from $10 to $12 they make money. What services have such a regular monthly pricing scheme as low as $3? I see on major news sites sometimes 99 cents total for 3 months or year (and cringe) but I assume that’s promotional to rope you in. Is $3 in line with other websites or phone apps?
If you go from $3 to $5 you would profit with keeping over 60% of people. Go from $3 to $10 and you profit keeping over 30%. Pretty much anyone who can afford the lower price can easily afford the higher. Willingness to pay is different from ability to pay yes but I don’t think the subscriber losses would be nearly enough to stop cash flow from increasing.
Should add a couple of features to justify the increase, people would probably enjoy a monthly t-shirt raffle or something. Get one of those old silk screen presses they had in high school graphic arts classes to make them yourself and all the better.
I def think there’s an opportunity for monthly type things like you suggest.
I was hesitant at first because of the yearly cost, not that it’s not affordable, but I’m just going through a “being real cheap on extra’s” phase right now – while I spend an assload of money at Lowe’s and HD.
The monthly got me to try it, and I’ll continue to be a supporter. Been checking this site since I can remember, Hell, already gotten one of my Braves questions answered in the email questionnaires.
The beauty of a subscription service like this is that as the subscriber base grows, we are able to use some of that revenue to continually add more benefits while keeping the price the same. So the value keeps getting better.
Sushi, Kamikaze, Fujiwara, Nippon Ichi!
“Support MLBTR’s employees directly for just $29.89 per year! Our writers work tirelessly to create 15+ new posts per day, 365 days a year”
That is listed as one of the benefits. How is that a benefit to subscribers? That’s certainly a benefit to the staff.
Honestly, because a lot of us enjoy reading these types of articles. The subscription allows that to continue.
For the cost of dinner out for 2 people (on avg) a year, you could instead support the site that so many of us visit daily/weekly.
If you have to ask, it’s probably not a benefit to you and you should prob just move on to another site.
It has been around for years for free, so how is it now all of a sudden they need money to survive?
So for the cost of something I need to survive, it would be a better benefit to give that money to something I don’t need at all. Got it.
I have to ask because I don’t see how losing nearly $30.00 a year and giving it to people I don’t know as a benefit to me. That’s a benefit to them. Losing $30.00 is not a benefit to you either and you know this. So I guess you should take your own advice and probably just move on to another site.
In the meantime, I will continue to do whatever I want, because I don’t allow other people to make up my mind for me. I would say thanks for your opinion, but since it has no value at all…keep your opinions to yourself.
You really can’t think of anything that happened in 2020 that might have prompted us to seek supplemental revenue?
A lot of people signed up out of a desire to support the free site. It’s possible our current ad-supported model is not sustainable long-term, given the way it was trending even before covid.
It seems likely that there will be a point where we need the subscription revenue to survive as a business. I have no idea when that point will be – possibly 10 years, 20 years, maybe never. The subscription service helps protect against the decline in ad revenue.
If you don’t care about the long-term viability of MLBTR, that’s OK. You’re still welcome here. I do care, many of our regular readers do, and others don’t.
Tim, you’re facing the same long term situation that MLB teams themselves will face. It’s very understandable given business modeling. Ad revenue across the board just isn’t going to support things. Not with so many eyeballs so many places.
Have you given thought to selling the service to MLB itself? It’s obviously a well-known brand.
Can’t think of a thing that happened that would have impacted a virtual entity. This is like online newspapers being free for years and then all of a sudden deciding to try to charge for subscriptions. It didn’t work for them.
Why are none of the other affiliates asking for subscriptions? Or is that something in the works down the road? Are you the test model?
I care about a lot of things, but it is up to you to figure out how to survive. If you believe that’s trying to pester people constantly to buy a subscription to something that was free all along, you go right ahead. I think you will find that won’t be a feasible option. I could be wrong, but I can only go on other models that have tried the same thing.
“It seems likely that there will be a point..” You mean you aren’t at that point now? Then why are you asking for money now?
Businesses are not an easy thing. It is up to the people that own and run them to figure out how to adapt in changing environments, not up to the consumers.
I think Tim is just informing that the ad based model that does fund the page income is a shrinking model. The page isn’t “free”. It’s basically the same model that network television has worked on. We get free use, and they sell ads. No one buys ads….to continue businesses shift the billing to the consumer more. It’s our mass model now…Netflix, Prime, MLBtv. My question is if it’ll work in text media as well. It’s why I wondered if eventually MLBTRADERUMORS.COM becomes part of MLB itself…let THEIR marketing oversee it.
Question is if someone can provide a knockoff of similar quality for free or cheaper. There’s not much proprietary information on the site.
The page isn’t free to them to hold the domain name and their time and effort. It was free to us in that we didn’t have to do anything at all to pay for the service save to visit it.
It isn’t the consumer’s fault that the model they based their entire livelihood on has changed. I guess they didn’t plan for a rainy day, or they put all their eggs in one basket. That’s a poor business model.
The thing you mention with those other companies is that they never existed in a free model before. It was always a subscription service. That is why I mentioned a direct comparison with Newspapers when they started posting online.
You see, in the old days when the Earth was young and the sheep were scared, you had to pay money to have this big wad of paper with words typed all over it called a newspaper to be delivered to your house. Then this thing called the interwebs got invented. People started going to it for their information and ignoring newspapers. So they thought, “Hey, let’s get in on this. Let’s go online.” But, instead of charging a monthly or yearly subscription like they do with their paper product (which they should have done) they decided to give it away for free. Then they lost their hats because people stopped paying for the paper product and got their product for free online. Then they tried to charge for it. Whoops. They couldn’t believe that people didn’t go for that business model.
I think the problem is now that sports are a dying venue. People are discovering they don’t need them anymore. While they struggle to make ends meet, entitled, spoiled, rich athletes are propping up career criminals as heroes and telling us that we’re terrible people. Less and less people are tuning out each and every day. So it is only natural if what you base your company around is seeing a drastic reduction in audience and revenue that your company would as well.
I worked for the sports section of a newspaper. There’s an issue because ad revenue is spread very thin now. There’s plenty of eyeballs watching sports currently….there’s just multi venues for it now that never existed before the internet or expanded tv service. Businesses can target their audience in ways that weren’t possible 30 years ago. Metrics have effected advertising as well. But that doesn’t create larger budgets for companies.
Radio and newspapers have both relatively died. My wife is the COO of a regional accounting firm. She advises clients against advertising with both.
People have a lot of options now. It hasn’t been good for the film industry either. MLB has an increasingly older, and caucasian market..which is like the death pit of marketing growth. The present isn’t great, but the future has it’s own issues on the horizon. I’ve honestly seen the last generation of MLB as a pump and dump. I question whether franchises can maintain their monetary values. It’s not a game that’s in the public mind nearly as much as the values would indicate cutrently.
Isn’t that the whole point of this exercise, Ed? Find a business model that works, given changing circumstances in the operating environment. In this country we get to choose, to a certain extent, which way to go.
For now, I choose not to pay. (In fact, if a paid subscription allowed me to “see past” pontification, I, for one, might even be inclined to pay sooner.)
I also choose not to compromise (beyond this) a sports/entertainment site with my free advice on how to live THEIR lives, and I only suggest this to you because of the impact, albeit minimal, you have on mine. (End of interaction)
Am I the only one who noticed that “$0.83 a day” is not “$2.50 a month”?
but yuz, it may not be 2.50 per month but it is equal to 29.89 per year
Narrator: $0.83 per day was not equal to $29.89 per year
Idiots to pay for that nonsense.
I’ll pay 2.99 if John rocker returns
I don’t believe any of those testimonials are real, but I love this site anyway lol
Yall probably shouldnt have been caking off fake news in the first place, if you quit your job for this, you made a booboo that covid exposed. Learn to code?
I wrote one, too.
They’re real, and they’re spectacular.
I truly don’t know what it means to “cake off fake news.”
I quit my job for this in 2008. It was a good decision. I do wish I knew how to code, that’d be nice.
Get the Players Association to fund you. Most, if not all your stories are geared to put more money in players pockets.
I notice that this type or infomercial/article doesn’t appear on the other 3 rumor sites. Why is that?
Partially that I haven’t gotten around to it, and partially that the benefits for non-MLB fans are limited to the removal of ads, since almost all the exclusive content we provide is MLB.
But how would I know that like a good neighbor, State Farm is there? Or about the $200 cash back on an American Express card. Or how good LG turbowash 3D is?
Not gonna lie, you got me to google, “LG turbowash 3d”. Is that a common commercial, I stopped watching tv about 2 years ago?
I’m convinced, just joined and glad I did. I use this site religiously and am so grateful for the content and the work MLBTR writers put into this. It’s a definite labor of love and we are the recipients. Thank you guys! Kicking myself it took so long but hope MLBTR stays around for a long time. You guys are the best!
Would my subscription give me access to the exclusive MLBTR Swimsuit Edition?
8.2 cents a day! Help support this site which most of you have been reading for years!!
We support and have supported this site for years by clicking on it. That’s how this site made money with advertising. The more clicks the more money they can generate.
Don’t look down on people if they don’t want to subscribe.
This is true. By a long shot, MLBTR is financed by traffic/ad revenue. And I agree, we should not look down on anyone for not subscribing. The vast majority of MLBTR readers are not subscribers.
Alright, this post got me.
So, still censoring posts you don’t agree with? Definitely not going to support that with any of my money.
That was obvious with your other posts.
That’s because they support practices I don’t condone. Censoring opinions you don’t agree with is a terrible tactic. That is Mike Florio level nonsense. Just because an opinion piece is written on here doesn’t mean that it is the correct opinion or the only way to see something. Disagreeing with something is how conversations start and progress. You build your argument based on whatever evidence you can provide.
If your only means of proving you are right is by deleting differing opinions then that says a lot more about you than the opinion you snuffed out.
I’ve had a couple of comments removed over time. I got into it with people trying to bring politics onto a sports site and the entire conversations were flagged. I should know better. And at the end of the day, it’s their site and their rules and I don’t have a problem with that.
No idea what you’re talking about regarding differing opinions. We have a commenting policy. When we catch it, we delete stuff that violates it. There’s nothing in our policy about disagreeing.
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MLBTR has totally replaced sex in my life.