March 30, 20179 yr Secondary market data reveals light demand as Marlins head into 2017 ORLANDO, Fla. – With an average resale price of $68.78 on the secondary market, Opening Day tickets for the Miami Marlins are the third-cheapest in all of baseball. According to data released by online resale marketplace Event Tickets Center, only the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Minnesota Twins have a lower average price. By comparison, the average price on the secondary market for a ticket in Texas, St. Louis and Wrigley Field is three times higher than what buyers are paying in Miami. The Cubs lead all of baseball with an average resale price of $294.60, followed by the Cardinals at $221.27 and the Rangers at $191.27. Atlanta is also experiencing higher average resale prices as the Braves get set to open their new SunTrust Park in Cobb County. “We’re seeing less demand in markets where teams haven’t made recent playoff appearances,” said Event Tickets Center CEO Adam Young. “That’s affecting the price in Miami relative to the rest of the league. But it’s actually about 15 percent higher than what we saw for the 2016 opener, which is reflective of the Marlins’ performance last season and nearly reaching .500 for the first time in seven seasons.” “Fans looking for a deal can actually save about $30 by waiting to go to the Marlins’ second home game,” Young added. He said markets with more expensive openers generally see a drop off of $100 or more from game one to game two. Across the league, there are 19 teams with opener tickets averaging more than $100 and only four – Milwaukee, Miami, Minnesota and Anaheim – averaging under $70. Secondary resale data reveals fans can also save an average of $80.95 by skipping their team’s opener. Looking at individual teams, Cardinals fans can save $153 dollars and Rangers fans can save $146. Fans in Kansas City and Cleveland can save an average of $135 by going to game two. Mets fans can save almost $120. The average resale price for every Major League Baseball team’s home opener is listed below. The figures are calculated on a per-team basis and represent the average selling price of all tickets sold for each team’s first home game. Home Team Avg Price Chicago Cubs $294.60 St. Louis Cardinals $221.27 Texas Rangers $191.27 Atlanta Braves $182.90 Kansas City Royals $182.62 Cleveland Indians $179.93 Boston Red Sox $166.80 San Francisco Giants $166.69 Detroit Tigers $162.14 New York Mets $159.85 Los Angeles Dodgers $145.97 Baltimore Orioles $141.52 Colorado Rockies $135.36 New York Yankees $126.31 San Diego Padres $113.13 Houston Astros $110.45 Cincinnati Reds $108.33 Toronto Blue Jays $105.78 Pittsburgh Pirates $100.29 Tampa Bay Rays $99.98 Arizona Diamondbacks $98.51 Washington Nationals $98.18 Chicago White Sox $95.66 Seattle Mariners $94.71 Oakland Athletics $92.57 Philadelphia Phillies $79.37 Milwaukee Brewers $69.97 Miami Marlins $68.78 Minnesota Twins $62.64 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim $62.17
March 30, 20179 yr Fake news. The Marlins haven't made the playoffs in 14 years and are in lower demand, duh. The Cubs just won the World Series and are in highest demand, duh. Is this rocket science?
March 30, 20179 yr Author Is this rocket science? No it is baseball ticket sales numbers. This is rocket science - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace_engineering Not sure how you confuse the two. Maybe @Dr Beinfest can help you.
March 30, 20179 yr Author Rocket science is where you make study aerospace engineering but want to sound cool See. Nothing to do with baseball tickets [uSER=2328]@SilverBullet1929[/uSER]
March 30, 20179 yr All this shows is what tickets are most wanted. Says nothing about what is best value from the box office.
March 30, 20179 yr All this shows is what tickets are most wanted. Says nothing about what is best value from the box office. Exactly. Misleading. And picking on the Marlins when two other capable teams are worse off and very few teams are that much ahead of us anyways. Stupid. Fake news.
March 30, 20179 yr After all of the nonsense taxes and convenience fees I payed $240 for 3 tickets in Sec 19. I'm 19 rows behind the Marlins dugout.
March 30, 20179 yr Author Exactly. Misleading. And picking on the Marlins when two other capable teams are worse off and very few teams are that much ahead of us anyways. Stupid. Fake news. Miami is still one of the worst baseball towns in existence though. It is undeniably bottom three.
March 30, 20179 yr Miami is still one of the worst baseball towns in existence though. It is undeniably bottom three. You could make a real argument that either Miami or Tampa are the absolute worst.
March 30, 20179 yr Exactly. Misleading. And picking on the Marlins when two other capable teams are worse off and very few teams are that much ahead of us anyways. Stupid. Fake news. I agree. #fakenews #wrong Sad!
March 30, 20179 yr Author You could make a real argument that either Miami or Tampa are the absolute worst. It's probably one of those two to be honest, but at least the Rays have a shitty stadium in a bad location. It's hard to refute Miami being the worst baseball town.
March 30, 20179 yr You could make a real argument that either Miami or Tampa are the absolute worst. They trade places. Miami currently ahead by a long shot.
March 31, 20179 yr Fake news. The Marlins haven't made the playoffs in 14 years and are in lower demand, duh. The Cubs just won the World Series and are in highest demand, duh. Is this rocket science? if you want to go high then yes
March 31, 20179 yr Doesn't the opening day always be the only one sellout game of a season in the last decades years !? so why not just to setting the high ticket price to earn more money !?
March 31, 20179 yr who would pay $99 for the Rays or $92 for the A's ..goo lawh The one that went to only one game a season.
March 31, 20179 yr I don't have much trouble admitting Miami is a horrible sports town but the one thing that really sticks out about Tampa is that they don't even support that team during times of success. Marlins fans are more likely to show up during the successful times which are admittedly not that often but not too long ago the Rays were contenders with a couple of postseason appearances and that shithole was still empty.
March 31, 20179 yr I thought the headline meant that Volquez will be the worst opening-day starter in MLB.
March 31, 20179 yr It's probably one of those two to be honest, but at least the Rays have a shitty stadium in a bad location. It's hard to refute Miami being the worst baseball town. Bad owner? Bad baseball?
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