The Boston Red Sox plan on increasing ticket prices to games at Fenway Park next season by an average of 1.7 percent, reports MassLive’s Christopher Smith.
The Red Sox vastly underachieved this year to fall out of the postseason picture for the first time since 2015. Their win total plummeted from the franchise-record 108 they piled up a year ago to 86 this season.
Ownership has publically stated a desire to trim the payroll in order to duck under the $208 million luxury tax threshold. Rumors are swirling that some of the team’s biggest stars could be traded to dump salary and we can rule out any high profile free agents being brought in to upgrade the roster.