Mets ticket sales are exceeding expectations and are now projected to be significantly higher over last year, Mets chief revenue officer Lou DePaoli told Newsday.
“Obviously, we’re going to project for the attendance to go up again,” said DePaoli. “We’re still trying to wrap our hands around exactly what that could look like. Ticket sales are up 19.26 percent ahead of last year, season tickets are up 12.5 percent. What we look at it is that we’re pacing in the right direction. At this time last year, we were pacing about 1 percent up and we wound up .62 percent up from 2013.
“Obviously, people have belief in the team. The return of Matt Harvey, a healthy David Wright, I think people want to see Juan Lagares play centerfield. Michael Cuddyer is here, Lucas Duda‘s starting to get a fan base, Jacob deGrom. This is a likable, followable team that we have higher expectations for on the field.”
The team sold roughly 2.1 million tickets in 2014 which ranked 21st in MLB. It was their first increase in sales since 2009 when Citi Field opened.
