2020 Off-Season Rumors/News

[Arketebel]

Has anyone done research seeing a correlation between population and attendance?

For example, the Atlanta metro area has about 3x the population Cleveland has. On top of that, I think the closest MLB team to Atlanta is Cincinnati. So any baseball fan within a few hours of Atlanta pretty much has the Brave or nothing.

It'd be great if we were the only MLB city close to Toledo, Youngston, Columbus, Dayton and Indy. Instead we have to fight with Pittsburgh, Cincy, Detroit and Chicago for those markets.

So I think a team in Atlanta has much easier time getting 30k people to come to a game as opposed to a team in Cleveland.

I can't post the image right now, but these links show fan maps, which has Atlanta as the team with the most counties. Cleveland's geographical influence is small:

https://seatgeek.com/tba/articles/where-do-mlb-fans-live-mapping-baseball-fandom-across-the-u-s/

https://www.caliper.com/featured-maps/maptitude-mlb-baseball-stadium-map.html

 

[mopete12]

Very true. I visit South Carolina/North Carolina a lot and I see Braves hats constantly.

I live in NC and see Braves hats everywhere. The Braves and the Reds are on cable, MLB.tv blacks out the Nationals and Orioles. It makes sense that Charlotte is listed as one of the possible expansion cities for the MLB.

 

[The Wizard of Moz]

Atlanta also gets fans from the other side. Most popular MLB team in Bama

 

[Ohio]

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

That's an absurd contract for Castellanos...

 

[Urban]

It would be fascinating to see what kind of deal he'd be looking at had he not been traded and subsequently went off with the Cubs. I imagine he'd be in a somewhat similar market with Puig

 

[Derek]

Good bat, no doubt. But Cincy will have him in the OF presumably where he has mostly been a disaster.

Never been worth more than 3 fWAR, and it's largely because his glove has been so negative.

It's tough for me to say it's too much though. The years stick out, but he's been slightly better than Ozuna the last two years, and Ozuna got 1 year $18 million.

 

[Steve_424]

The opt out is after 1 year.

 

[Amherstcavsfan]

double

 

[NorthCoastBias]

 

[sportscoach]

The biggest question is what would be the cost of Senzel? Also he is a Boras client which says he won’t be easy to extend or re-sign but otherwise he does fit into the type of guy the Indians would like.

 

[Otsego Mar]

That's an absurd contract for Castellanos...

Hardly. Just look at the money being thrown around.

Solid pickup.

 

[sportscoach]

Hardly. Just look at the money being thrown around.

Solid pickup.

Hence why we haven’t picked up a veteran OF this off season. They are all getting more years/money than makes sense for the Indians to offer.

 

[Otsego Mar]

Hence why we haven’t picked up a veteran OF this off season. They are all getting more years/money than makes sense for the Indians to offer.

*The Dolans

It would appear so.

 

[sportscoach]

*The Dolans

It would appear so.

Dolans not putting out money for an overpaid and overrated OF lol