Yankees Home Opener Well Below Season Average

Today the New York Yankees will finally have their Home Opener for the 2014 season when the Baltimore Orioles come to the Big Apple. This will be the 20th and final Opening Day at Yankee Stadium for future Hall of Famer and Captain of the New York Yankees Derek Jeter who announced that the 2014 season would be his last. The Yankees being the classy franchise they are have decided to honor Jeter before the game by bringing in the other three members of the Core Four (Andy Pettite, Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada) to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.

Coming into the game today the Yankees sit at a record of 3-3 having won three of their previous four games. They will send out Hiroki Kuroda to the mound Monday with the intention of helping the Yanks move into a tie for first place in the AL East with the Tampa Bay Rays. Yankees tickets for today’s game are actually well below New Yorks home average for the season of $131 averaging the paltry $32. Yankees home opener tickets are one of the cheapest of the year follow a drastic decline in price of 83% as we grew nearer and nearer first pitch.

This is in stark contrast to the trend of previous Yankees home opener tickets which were significantly higher averaging $215 in 2012 and $207 in 2013 for a difference of over $150 in average ticket price. At an average price of just $32 this is by far the Yankees cheapest home opener in years which can be attributed to the fact it comes in the third series of the year and is a day game on a Monday compared to the last year when their home opener came at night for the first game of the season.