When the Mets announced their season-opening rotation in March, Sandy Alderson hinted to reporters the alignment – which has Matt Harvey scheduled to start the second home game of the season – could at least have been partially influenced by ticket sales.
While there were a bevy of baseball reasons to align the rotation as they did, it looks like the strategy could be paying dividends for the club.
In a report for the New York Post, Lou DePaoli, the club’s executive vice president and chief revenue officer, said the team has sold around 30,000 tickets for Tuesday night’s game against the Phillies.
“Once people heard what the rotation would be, it started bringing up sales a little bit,” DePaoli said.
A lot of fans were angry Harvey didn’t get the home opener, and grew angrier when Alderson made the comment about ticket sales influencing the decision.
I get it, but this is a business in the end, the club has arguably one of the most marketable and interesting players in the game, so why not try and center the attention around him?
The second home game typically has a quieter atmosphere, and this is clearly helping to create two consecutive days of electricity inside Citi Field Field, and if this has any merit, it’s not stopping people from going to the second game.
I know I’m going when I otherwise might not have.
Just Mets 