Jeter’s Marlins Stand to Make More Money With Ballparks Empty
- If baseball happens in 2020, it’ll be played in empty stadiums
- With secrecy around the numbers, here’s a stab at who profits
The Miami Marlins’s average game attendance last year was 10,016, by far the lowest in Major League Baseball. Zero fans in the ballpark might work out better for them.
The team may have lost money last year due to the costs of running $515 million Marlins Park, and if the ballclub were to play 2020 without fans in the stands, the Marlins could actually eke out a profit, according to back-of-the-envelope calculations from public records and guidance from a former MLB team official who requested anonymity.