With Correa Gone, What Will Bring Fans Back to Target Field? 

Maybe they could play professional pickleball there after the baseball game. That's getting more popular.

IMHO the main focus of this team should be in identifying why we have so many more injuries than average and in creating a plan to keep our top guys on the field. It's still too early to speculate on what our roster might look like on opening day. Hopefully more quality help is on the way. As of today, the most positive thing I can say is that I like the new uniforms, Vazquez was a good pickup, and I'm thankful we didn't give Correa a mega-monster contract.

Bring back Dollar dog night 

Hmm.  Let's see.  Two of your three most consistent hitters are gone--Correa and Urshela.  Buck may or may not stay healthy.  Kirilloff may or may not be healthy.  Mahle may or may not be healthy.  Larnach may or may not stay healthy.  Winder and Ober may or may not stay healthy.  Arraez may or may not be traded.  Gray, Maeda, and Mahle are all in the last year of their contracts.  The young pitchers, Varland, SWR, and others, may or may not have breakout years.  With so many "ifs", I think attendance will really plunge if they don't start strong, and even if they do, it will be later in the summer before fans really start to believe.  Swanson won't move the needle if acquired.  Rodon would move it a bit. Frankly, I don't see how attendance rebounds.  Sorry.  

Minnesota is a classic front running market - winning brings fans.

2022 was saved by the club playing meaningful baseball into September.

A slow start and realistically out of it by mid-late June, coupled with this lineup, inflation pressures, and an iffy downtown, 18,000/game or under 1.5MM for the season sounds about right.

3 minutes ago, RJA said:

Arraez may or may not be traded. 

The only thing keeping fan interest by September may be Arraez competing for another batting title.  We’d better keep him now.

Distant memories of the '87 and '91 world series?  Oh wait... I can enjoy those memories from home.... never mind!

7 minutes ago, dberthia said:

IMHO the main focus of this team should be in identifying why we have so many more injuries than average and in creating a plan to keep our top guys on the field. It's still too early to speculate on what our roster might look like on opening day. Hopefully more quality help is on the way. As of today, the most positive thing I can say is that I like the new uniforms, Vazquez was a good pickup, and I'm thankful we didn't give Correa a mega-monster contract.

I agree with most of this dberthia.  However I do not like the new uniforms.  The "M" on the cap looks like Miami.  Teams who are not championship contenders change their uniforms to generate interest that their play on the field/rink/court does not (see Wild, Timberwolves).

As for the product on the field, the Twins need to try and be the "best of the rest" which in my opinion could include contenting for the A.L. Central. Fans SHOULD understand that they will not compete for a World Series title. 

Given that, how about lowering ticket prices...

14 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

Nothing? Casual fans show up for home runs and winning. 

You are correct.

Years past they had 1-2 guys that would draw in fans:
Kirby Puckett
Kent Hrbek
Joe Mauer
Johan Santana
Torii Hunter
Buxton could be that, but his health won't allow it

 

How about the FO admitting they failed and lower ticket prices and running another get to know them campaign?

Free beer.

Just now, Mike Sixel said:

Why do people keep posting this? Has it ever happened?

Mike read the question being asked? I gave an answer, it is the only legit thing they could do to bring in more fans in 23 IMO. Chances of it happening are zero, but there might not be any answer that is higher than zero. Unless they plan on trading Lee and Lewis for some super star(s), I don't think it will be hard to get a ticket to games in 23.

3 minutes ago, Craig Arko said:

Free beer.

I was wrong on a plan that would be higher than zero. ;)

Would borrowing the Saints pig spark interest?

Carlos Correa was with the Twins at the start of the season and played all year with the Twins.  With that in mind, the Twins finished with their lowest non pandemic years attendance in Target Field history.  Yes that was with the great Correa here.  It could be argued that if he wasn't here the attendance wouldn't even been as high as it was.  But he played in front of a lot of crowds less than 18,000.  The Twins the past two years in particular have been awful.  They play boring, mistake laden, baseball.  They are often listless and, like their manager, have an I don't care attitude.  There's perhaps several reasons people don't go to games.  I guess that's for another topic.  But playing sound fundamental baseball with players that have not been found in baseballs bargain basement,  would be a step in the right direction.

$35 million for 152 hits (22 HR) and 121 strikeouts for Correa. He had some long slumps and batted .292. Pretty good, but $35 million good?

I have a feeling some fans probably didn't go because they signed Correa. Sano hitting 45 bombs would have been better, but we went down that road one time too many.

Being competitive early in the season helps. The big mistake was not putting a roof on the new stadium. Outstate people like myself can't drive down and be assured a game. I know, it has been 10+ years of Target Field.

Freezing or cooking in the sun mid July probably is in the back of the fans minds. When we go mid summer, we think about shaded seats. Never had to do that in the Metrodome. Too late to turn back now.

I'll watch and listen to the Twins all summer no matter what. Try to hit a few games each summer. Everything is better with baseball on the air.

I'd go to more than twice the number of games I go to if they dropped the ticket price by 50%. 

Sorry, free beer ain't gonna cut it. We're talking Americans here; TV zombies trained to shop only "sales"; a discounted price. As such they believe 50% off is actually better than "free". So what the Twins have to do is offer two 50% off coupons for every adult ticket sold. If the Twins win, adults get handed another pair of 50% off beer coupons as they walk out of the stadium. This will accomplish three things; eliminate people leaving in the 7th inning to avoid the after-game rush, fill the stadium with all sorts of cheering and encouragement and encourage the ticket holder to come back for another game in order use their "new" coupons.

If the Twins loose, instead of more 50% coupons, adults get a Twins Crying Towel, a handkerchief-sized cloth bearing a likeness of a crying Baldelli. The backside will include a list of possible uses for the Crying Towel; blowing your nose, changing automobile oil, wiping up paint spills, wiping other things when hunting in the woods where bears go... all "feel good" activities.

Attendance will be off the charts. Guarantee it.