Archive for the ‘The Strasburg Effect’ Category


Average Attendance in Stephen Strasburg Starts

There is no doubt that a great pitcher can draw a crowd. When a top level pitcher is pitching you almost always see an attendance spike. Roy Halladay, Ubaldo Jimenez, Felix Hernandez, CC Sabathia, Tim Lincecum… they always pack the fans in.
Stephen Strasburg is the same. When he pitches fans are coming out in droves [...]

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The Strasburg Effect in Cleveland

Cleveland was a HUGE beneficiary of the Stephen Strasburg Effect. Hosting the second game of Strasburg’s rookie season they had almost double their average attendnace. They were seeing around 16,600 per game and in this game they had an attendance of 32,876.
Remember this is the Cleveland team that sold out 455 straight games [...]

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Strasburg helps local TV ratings

Yesterday we looked at how Stephen Strasburg will help the Nationals with ticket sales and all the other stuff that goes with but let’s take a look at the TV ratings for the local MLB affiliate in the DC area, MASN.
Just a couple years ago the games were only watched at about 8,000 households in [...]

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The Strasburg Effect

Let’s talk about the Strasburg Effect. By this I mean the economic impact Stephen Strasburg will have on the Washington Nationals and Major League Baseball. 
Stephen Strasburg signed the biggest deal ever for a #1 pick at $15.1 million over 4 years and the Washington Nationals need to make that up somehow. By putting butts in [...]

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