Once again the Marlins were the only team to be outdrawn by minor league teams last week.  But it gets worse. The Miami Marlins are the first team since AMSTS has tracked MLB and MiLB attendance to ever be outdrawn by a Rookie League team in the same week.  The Ogden Raptors drew 5,368 on Friday night for their game against the Missoula Osprey, while on Wednesday the Marlins managed only 5,265 against the Brewers. The overview: MLB teams outdrawn by AAA teams:  Miami (below 47 AAA games) MLB teams outdrawn by AA teams:  Miami (below 19 AA games) MLB teams outdrawn […]

MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 7/16: ...

 in Baseball by
Nobody last week was outdrawn by a minor league team! This is great! Well…. Everyone except the Marlins.  And boy, did they get outdrawn by minor league teams again this week.  With a low of 6,004 fans, the Marlins were outdrawn by ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY FIVE minor league games last week.  This week also got the Marlins past a season milestone: the Marlins have been outdrawn by ONE THOUSAND minor league games thus far on the season. The overview, as if it’s even needed: MLB teams outdrawn by AAA teams:  Miami (below 79 AAA games) MLB teams outdrawn by AA teams:  Miami (below […]

MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 7/9: ...

 in Baseball by
The Marlins are at it again, drawing only 6,105 fans in attendance to a game against the Diamondbacks last week. To put that in perspective, the lowest attended MLB game not involving the Marlins last week drew over double that when the Rays put 12,305 paying customers through the turnstiles. To put that in even more perspective, the Marlins were outdrawn by more Single A teams last week than any other MLB team has been all season, combined. A breakdown: MLB teams outdrawn by AAA teams:  Miami (below 56 AAA games), Tampa Bay (below 3 AAA games), Baltimore, Oakland, Chicago White […]

MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 7/2: ...

 in Baseball by
Tempers finally have flared in the past two weeks as we’ve gone from 56 ejections to 76 in no time flat. This week alone had eleven ejections, including the Dodgers getting three ejected in one game.  This didn’t do much to help the American League, who has held the ejection crown since we started tracking this sort of thing, they now trail the NL by twelve ejections on the full season.  Lots of work to do!   Attendance was overall good, with the Marlins, and A’s on road trips, and the Rays hosting the Yankees, the real professional baseball team of […]

MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 6/18: ...

 in Baseball by
All good things must come to an end.  After a slow start that led to me complaining last week that there weren’t enough ejections, MLB umpires listened to AMSTS and sent NINE players/coaches to the showers early this week, the high water mark of the year.  The NL extended its lead slightly by getting rung five times to the AL’s four. Most interesting was that only the Royals had two players ejected in one game and in separate incidents. There has yet to be a major ejection event (defined by three ejections or more on one play) this season.   […]

MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 6/18: ...

 in Baseball by
A big round of applause due to the Miami Marlins this week, as they hosted a three game series in which every single game had more than 10,000 in attendance. That gave the crown this week to the Oakland A’s who managed only below 8,000 on Thursday against the Royals.  Impressively, only seven teams drew below 20,000 on the week with four of them averaging below the mark.  However, only three teams had more than 40,000 in attendance on the week with only three of them averaging above the mark.  The attendance band constricted this week! Your minor league underperformers: […]

MLB 2018 Attendance, Ejections & Weather – Week of 6/10: ...

 in Baseball by
Only one team drew below 10,000 this week, as the Marlins and Rays were on road trips. That left the A’s, who played the aforementioned Rays in a matchup that couldn’t rely on fans from either side showing up. The four game series averaged fewer than 9,300 fans with the low point being 6,705.  This also put the A’s below double digit games played in AA and Single A, as we can see below. For all intents and purposes, the A’s seem to draw at more of a AA level.  Perhaps we could call them the… Oakland AA’s.   MLB […]

2018 MLB Attendance, Ejections, Time of Game, and Weather: Below ...

 in Baseball by
A belated BtBS this week on account of Memorial Day, which I hope you enjoyed. Oakland made an attempt to reclaim their low attendance crown from the Marlins, drawing 6,991 in their lowest attended game of the week, while the Marlins were able to muster a relatively strong crowd of 7,512 and were the only team to average below 10,000 fans on the full week.   Overall, nine teams were outdrawn by at least one AAA game last week when Monterrey drew nearly 20,000 for their game against Aguascalientes.   MLB teams outdrawn by AAA teams:  Oakland (below 57 AAA […]

2018 MLB Attendance, Ejectons, Game Time, and Weather: Below the ...

 in Baseball by
  The Marlins continue to draw nobody, but the story this week is that ejections have finally heated up.  Seven ejections this week, fairly distributed between the two leagues and allowing the NL to maintain its lead in the ejections race this year.   But how bad was that Marlins attendance?  One in three AAA games had a higher attendance last week than the Marlins’ lowest attended game of 5,721.  The next closest team was the Pirates, which were below only FIVE AAA games.  Woof.   MLB teams outdrawn by AAA teams:  Miami (below 55 AAA games) Pittsburgh (below 5 AAA […]

MLB 2018 Attendance, Time of Game, Weather and Ejections, Week ...

 in Baseball by
The 2018 season for the Baltimore Orioles could not be going any worse at this point.  The Orioles have one of the worst records in baseball, and attendance is floundering.  As of the completion of the series against the Royals last week (May 10th), the O’s have had only six games with more than 20,000 fans in attendance.  They’ve had 12 games that couldn’t hit that mark, including a couple with fewer than 10,000 in attendance.   But this isn’t about the attendance. The future for this Orioles team is bleak. Coming into this season, the Orioles were predicted to […]

Are We Watching Chapter Three of the Orioles Relocation Story?

 in Baseball by
Attendance up slightly while time of game ticked up. Let’s take a look at this week’s Below the Box Score: Tensions remain low across the league with only three ejections, keeping the NL ahead of the AL by a margin of eight on the full season.  Is it too much to ask for a few fastballs to the thighs? A few bat flips? Elsewhere, Oakland dethroned the Marlins this week as the low attendance mark, but Miami made up for it in volume. The Marlins averaged 9,311 fans on the week while Oakland averaged 11,693. The lows were 7,360 for […]

2018 MLB Attendance, Ejections, and Weather, Week of 5/13/18: Summer ...

 in Baseball by
John Gibbons has had enough of the National League leading the ejections race, and he’s doing something about it.  Gibbons accounted for 60% of this week’s ejections, getting rung in three separate games of the eight played by the Blue Jays on the week.  John may not be the hero the AL needs right now, but he’s certainly the hero the American League deserves. Last week we pointed out that the Marlins were outdrawn by 59 minor league games, but they really upped the game this week. Their entire three game series against Philadelphia didn’t draw more than 6,000 for […]

2018 MLB Attendance, Ejections, and Weather, Week of 5/6/18: John ...

 in Baseball by