One of the running issues of the 2018 MLB season is that attendance at games is down this year. In fact, MLB is expected to have its worst attendance season since 2003.
There have been a lot of explanations for this trend. The widespread use of “tanking” by teams out of contention has been mentioned as a big reason.
The problem with that explanation came out late last week when minor league baseball announced their attendance figures for 2018. MiLB trumpeted that they were over 40 million fans for the 14th-consecutive season. Left unsaid was that it was the lowest mark since 2003, just before the 40 million streak began.