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Expect Mets Payroll to Remain Low in 2015 and 2016

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Here is a picture, via MetsPolice of what the stands at Citi Field looked like last week.

 


This is not news, we know that Citi Field has been a ghost town all year. We also know that Sandy Alderson has said many times that the Mets putrid payroll has no chance of going up in any meaningful way unless that changes. So, we can all just set our expectations accordingly for 2015 and 2016. That’s right 2016. Because what Sandy Alderson must know, even if he is not saying it, is that tickets purchased lags behind performance. Recently, when Ned Yost couldn’t understand why his in-the-race Royals team wasn’t drawing better, Joe Posnaski explained it well.

1. A large percentage of tickets sold are season tickets – those were sold way back in the offseason and are unaffected by the Royals recent surge.

2. A large percentage of tickets sold are bought well in advance – that’s why certain nights of the week do way better than other nights. Tuesday night games tend to be some of the smallest crowds of the week for obvious reasons. Bill James, years ago, wrote about the myth that Nolan Ryan drew significantly more fans to the ballpark. People, for the most part, don’t say “Hey, Nolan Ryan’s pitching tomorrow night, let’s all go out.” They say, “Hey, we’re free next Friday night, let’s go to the game.”

3. Families build their plans around their children’s schedules – and school started this week. I wouldn’t take my kids to a night ballgame on the first week of school if Lou Gehrig and Satchel Paige came back to play. Well, MAYBE if Lou Gehrig and Satchel Paige came back – but for a late August Royals-Twins game? Are you bleepin’ kidding me? Again, the question was not why there were empty seats. The question was why anyone at all showed up.

So when it comes to the Mets, if you believe that as long as the Wilpons are in charge the chicken must come first, without the benefit of an egg, than that means expect very low payrolls in 2015 and 2016. And I believe that with every fiber of my being. That means the Mets only real hope for 2015 is that Sandy rolls high in the casino. Which was the 2014 Plan, and I believe is “The Plan.” Wish and hope, and with a lot of teams making the playoffs every year, one year we might get lucky. I hoped it would be 2014, hey, maybe it will be 2015.

Sandy, tell J.P. to blow on the dice!

J.P.-Ricciardi

 

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