Trade Rumors Front Office is our subscription service, which removes ads from the website and app and gets you a bunch of exclusive MLB chats and articles. You can check out the full benefits here, and I’ve got more on the way this year. But rather than tell you myself why Trade Rumors Front Office provides great value, I thought I’d share another batch of real quotes from current subscribers!
The Trade Rumors Front Office subscription service is a must have for baseball fans! The exclusive chats are always informative and I always get my questions answered! MLBTR also has great content exclusive to the subscription, with my personal favorite being the projection of possible trades. I highly recommend! – Alex
Very fair price for the ad-free and the extras. Highly recommended. – Rocco
So I signed up initially to support these guys during the pandemic. I wasn’t sure what to expect. I think they were trying to figure it out too.. And they have.. Among other benefits, Tim Dierkes’ mailbag is damn good. He is giving some very in-depth answers to questions that you don’t get on the free site. Steve Adams has done some great synopses on what the Padres have done as well as the crazy couple of weeks when there were a flurry of moves. – Marc
MLBTR is a business – and just like many others businesses during these trying times – they’ve had to improvise. The result of their improvising was Trade Rumors Front Office. TRFO is a subscription based service that allows for more personalized content between the users and the MLBTR staff with subscriber exclusive mailbags, live chats, and articles. All for the yearly price of $29.89 or the monthly price of $2.99. – Daniel
The Trade Rumors Front Office subscription is a huge value to me. The subscription allows me to quickly take in all the news, notes and transaction details from my #1 baseball news site without having to visually hurdle any unwanted ads. I strongly recommend joining the Front Office!! – David
Subscribing to the most-complete baseball news website was a no-brainer! Beyond the free content, there is a lot more. The insider mail call and chats are great, especially with the increased access to insiders. I’m thrilled to support MLBTradeRumors. After all I’ve taken from it over the years, it’s a pleasure to give back! – Doug
MLBTR was already my favorite site for all my baseball intel before the Front Office subscription made me a fan for life. If you love our national pastime like I do then it’s a great value that I would suggest everyone invest in!! Great insights and writing. Thank you MLBTR! – Sean
I would recommend signing up for the Front Office plan simply because it allows more access to information. My questions are answered during the chats and the overall experience feels a lot more personalized. For any person who visits the website/app daily then I recommend the Front Office plan as you will have more personalized content and interactions that you are looking for when coming to the site. – Nick
If you’re nuts about baseball, like I am, you’ll want to SERIOUSLY consider getting the MLB Rumors subscription service. For a few bucks a month you not only get the website (ad free), you get continual surprises in your email – great information, invitations to participate and top of the line excellent analysis. Great stuff – and FUN. Season’s right around the corner. Hop aboard!! – Andy
I’ve been visiting MLBTR daily since 2008 and can’t emphasize enough how much additional, thoughtful content I receive daily as a Front Office subscriber. Money exceptionally well spent! – Aaron
I enjoy coming to MLB Trade Rumors daily for up to date information on rumors, but since signing up for an add free subscription –
I have become an insider
I get emails to ask questions
I get private chats with some of the staff
It’s not just reading information it’s being part of it.
It’s the best investment I made for my entertainment in a long time – Tommy
The subscription service pays for itself when we have our weekly personal chats and the chances of asking a question and getting it answered is extremely high and the added plus of no ads on the Trade Rumors page is great. – Ed
I chose to subscribe a year ago and I’m really grateful for, the extra features, such as live chats and the absence of ads, are really worth it, and have helped me enjoy and gain knowledge about the sport. – Nicholas
Rocco Baldelli subscribes eh?
Definitely the mailbag is worth the price of admission all on it’s own. In depth answers to good questions with no “(insert star here) for (insert scrub here). Who says no?” Or “what’s your favorite pizza topping?”
That’s on mlbtr though. They clearly don’t have to choose to answer such questions in the chats but do so anyway
True, but it’s a case of you get what you pay for.
My only complaint is that the mailbag messages were initially flagged as spam by my email client. So i had to fix that. But it’s worth the little pittance that it cost me. I often feel like the least knowledgeable person on this site, so it’s a great opportunity for me to take a deeper dive into the game that I love.
As an A’s fan I don’t get much coverage, but that’s not MLB TradeRumors fault. Team doesn’t spend money and trades away star players and…… but I digress… I’ve enjoyed this site for many years and enjoy the chats, so I feel subscribing is the least I can do. The added mailbag questions and emails from the site is excellent.
I like to call my relationship with mlbtr ‘friend with benefits’. I support the site, which is great, and I get some extra stuff in return.
I recall another commenter making the great point of what they use the TR site for— baseball only.
I, too, am one of those people. Likewise, I never touch the hoops/hockey/football rumors page.
It may be enticing enough for people to subscribe if there is an option to subscribe to the rumors page(s) of their choosing, for an adjusted fee based on their preferences. The total package gets a bundle deal.
I love MLBTR. I’m here (and have been for the past decade) at least 20 times per day. Yet, I do not feel compelled to subscribe. Truth be told, I most certainly would if not for the fact that the other rumors pages (noted above) would continue to go unused.
Either way, thanks for being there MLBTR.
Honestly, I think that most of the site’s revenues and expenses are dedicated/derived from the MLB side of things. The $30 or so dollars is well worth a single sport especially for people who visit the baseball page multiple times per day (as I have). I am quoted above so I obviously enjoy the products but for anyone who looks at the site multiple times per day, the extra content is well worth 5 cups of coffee per year.
The paid portion is new, so I also am pretty confident that extra content and bonus events, perks, etc will be developed as time goes by.
What I don’t want to see, is the resource that has provided me so much entertainment through the years (and has made improvements as well through the years) go away or become a skeleton of its former-self due to the fact that they need to cut back due to budget restrictions.
If I read the hockey, hoops, nfl as much as I did the baseball version- I’d gladly pay more for the daily content. It is a better investment than Sports Illustrated or ESPN.
Sorry for the rant (of sorts)…
Nick
I spent 8 years as a National Featured Columnist with Bleacher Report. MLBTR (and their sister sites) were and remain an invaluable resource. For me, supporting Tim and his team with a VERY reasonably priced subscription is not only a no-brainer, but a way of saying thanks for making my job MUCH easier.
My apologies to those annoyed with the ad. We’re done bumping it to the top of the site for this subscription push, and there’s generally a gap of around two weeks between pushes. I understand that not everyone is interested and I respect that, but this is our best way to add new subscribers. I will note that this type of ad is not shown in our free Trade Rumors app!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/trade-rumors/id891722241?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.traderumors&hl=en
You should be able to advertise any way that works for you. It’s your site. If it annoys someone, they can just scroll past it. The people who take the time to complain on here, were probably never gonna subscribe anyway, but I’m sure there are people who’ve seen the ad and have subscribed because of it. I did. The first time you ran it.
Why do you censor comments?
There’s never been a time in MLBTR’s 15 years that we haven’t removed comments. I’m not interested in hosting, for example, hate speech on the website. People attempt vile comments every day and always have…it’s the nature of the Internet. Here’s our commenting policy:
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/07/mlb-trade-rumors-commenting-policy.html