Major League Baseball’s quest to make their product more accessible to foreign markets appears to have at least one significant flaw.
The National League West rival Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres are meeting for a weekend series in Monterrey, Mexico that begins on Friday. Dodgers beat writer Pedro Moura of The Athletic, who is in town to cover the games, tweeted out an interesting tidbit that he learned from his Uber driver in Monterrey. The driver revealed that tickets for the series are selling for ten times the cost of those at a typical Mexican League game.
My Monterrey Uber driver said tickets to this weekend’s Dodgers-Padres series sold for 10 times the cost of seats at a typical Mexican League game. “I want to go, but it’s not accessible,” he said.
— Pedro Moura (@pedromoura) May 4, 2018
For reference, tickets for Friday’s game are selling on StubHub for over $94 for nosebleeds and up to almost $1,900 for field level.
MLB games played on international soil have made for some pretty cool moments already this season. But if the games are not a realistic option for the majority of the population where they are taking place, it seems a bit counterproductive.
