During two different April road trips, Rockies veteran outfielder Carlos Gonzalez was already noticing the roots of a troubling trend across major league baseball this season, where attendance is down 5.9 percent from 2017 and those numbers haven’t risen annually for six years now.
“It’s really obvious when you go to Miami, and there’s nobody in the stands,” Gonzalez said. “And places like Pittsburgh — which had really impressed me because not too long ago, we were going in there and the place was packed and they had a really good team — were half-empty too.