Bad baseball isn’t stopping fans from buying tickets
The Toronto Blue Jays have one of the worst records in baseball. Their games are among the best-selling contests on the secondary market for the month of June regardless according to VividSeats.com.
VividSeats.com has released its top 10 best-selling baseball match-ups for the month of June. These MLB ticket sales numbers show that dedicated fans are going to see disappointing teams like the Toronto Blue Jays and St. Louis Cardinals play regardless of their spot in the standings.
Four of the top 10 most highly-sold games for the month of June involve Toronto as either the home or road team, with three of those four games being held at the Rogers Centre. In fact, the top three MLB match-ups in June are games involving the Blue Jays.
No other team appears on the list more than twice. The St. Louis Cardinals appear on the list as both a home and road team, as do the Washington Nationals. The Houston Astros also nab two spots on the list, but as a road team in both instances, which is a fact that they have in common with the New York Yankees. The Texas Rangers claim two mentions on the list as the home team in both instances. Six other teams claim the remaining spots.
Despite being the most heavily-featured team on this list, demand for Blue Jays tickets isn’t necessarily reflected in the price. The average minimum price for the four games involving the Blue Jays is $15.25, while the average of the four average prices is $78. Those averages are driven up by the game at Safeco Field, the home of the Seattle Mariners, which is the most expensive ticket of the four games involving the Blue Jays.
Of the five teams who claim two spots on the list, the games for the St. Louis Cardinals command the most money. The cheapest tickets for those two games are going for an average of $34, while the average ticket price of those two contests averages out to be $105.50.
These numbers argue that it’s possible to still sell tickets even if the team isn’t winning series after series. With that in mind, there’s more to the story of under 1,600 fans showing up to a Philadelphia Phillies at Miami Marlins game than just the terrible records of both teams.