The Worst MLB Cities in America 

The fact that so many Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, etc... live in Miami and they can't get fans to show up is astounding. And not in a good way.

For the Rays, their biggest issue is location. Nobody is driving an hour from the other side of the bay to St. Pete on a Tuesday to watch baseball. The Lightning are very popular, and I think their downtown Tampa location is a big reason why they are able to get Floridians to care more about hockey than baseball.

The Atlanta Braves organization got it right. They moved the park nearer their fan base, north of Atlanta. The park experience is first class and they provide a consistently competitive team, which equals a winning formula. More sports franchises should copy this model.

One of the things that struck me about the Rays is that in 2008 when they were in first place and winning the pennant, the team was STILL in last place as far as attendance goes, and they didn't start to sell out until the playoffs.

It's not a surprise Miami attendance fell off a cliff after the Marlins got rid of Stanton, Yelich, Ozuna, and Gordon in the same year.

1) Oakland 2) Oakland 3)Oakland 4) Tampa 5) Arizona

If the Rays were to move to Tampa, they would absolutely pull more fans, especially if they are consistently good-great and make the playoffs. Look at the lightning and how much support they have built.

Marlins are giving tickets away at 4 for 44.00 you’ll get four (4) game tickets, four (4) hot dogs, four (4) sodas or waters and two (2) small popcorns. That would never happen in larger markets

As an Arizona fan it’s a shame they can’t get more fans to show, but ownership since Jerry Colangelo sold the team has been pretty miserable. They don’t want to renovate the ballpark and don’t want to put a winner on the field.

I’ve lived in Florida for 25 years, and I wish that the people here were more passionate about their pro sports. I understand that there definitely are some, but overall that’s a huge problem. And I grew up in the Midwest until I was 19, and because of that am fans of other teams too, like you mentioned. It’s going to take time with Florida I think. It’s just not a place where generations of people have permanently lived and grown up. I think that’s only just started to happen the last 25-35 years a little. But that might mean only one generation here. And even if that generation now has kids, they might just be very little still. Whereas cities like Chicago, Boston, New York, or others might have as many as 200 years of families living there, and multiple generations. Fans attitudes make a difference too. I’m a big Cubs fan, and love everything about them and Wrigley. I’d never leave s game before the last out, and I’d stay at the ballpark and surrounding area all day if I could. But for example in Tampa Bay, where I do see a handful of games each year, I’ve seen Rays fans yell “Hurry up! We want to go home!” in the 8th inning when the Rays have been up. So I think some fans just have a poor mentality when it comes to their teams. If going to your team’s venue to see them is just s chore for you, then why are you even a fan?

Tampa's biggest problem is location. I lived in St. Pete. In fact, I lived within walking distance of Tropicana. There are really only three ways to get to the stadium if you don't live in the city, and all three ways are incredibly congested. One of them is over a bridge unless you want to drive an hour or more north and then wait another hour to get into St. Pete. If they built a stadium in Tampa proper, that all changes. No more having to drive north to go south or south to get north.

I think Cincinnati needs to be on this list now, which is incredibly sad.

The fact that residents paid for these stadiums is the saddest fact.

Arizona and the Florida teams have the problem that so many people moved to those cities from elsewhere in the country, and when they get there, they mostly continue to support their old teams. That's why you'll always find lots of fans of the opposing team at their games. I could see the Rays relocating, but they might have the same problem in the next city they move to.

You can add Cincinnati to this list. Incompetent ownership

It's interesting that 3 of the 4 most recent expansion teams (all except Colorado) are on this list. I think MLB bears a lot of the blame, for misreading potential markets and awarding franchises to cities that obviously lack enough of a fan base. And this is despite each of these three teams making at least one World Series appearance, with Phoenix winning one, Miami winning 2, and TB appearing in 2.

It feels like the WBC sold out more games in Miami and Phoenix than the home teams did last year.

I really thought you'd put Pittsburgh on this list, especially when you talked about Cleveland and their fans' opinions of their owners.

I am born and raised in Tampa. I was a lifelong baseball fan. Most middle class whites ie Baseball fans live in Tampa and Brandon. Many in North Tampa. It is a nightmare getting over the Howard Franklin Bridge for a night game in St. Pete. Nobody from Tampa wants to go to a 7pm game. Get off work at 5:30, with traffic and parking you will make it right on time. 45 min drive home late at night. Not fun! and you can't drink because you have a long drive home, plus Uber is too expensive. There are many people in Tampa from Tampa. NOBODY in St. Pete is from St. Pete. Day games are impossible unless you have the entire day off, or leave work at 11am. Tropicana Field is ugly, but it's actually not that bad. But I don't have high standards, I think TIAA field in Jax is nice too.

A lot of those great Cleveland attendance numbers occurred during the Browns hiatus, or whatever you call it. The Browns are like an albatross around the neck of Cleveland sports fans. Even in years when the Indians were doing great, attention turned to the Browns as soon as summer camp started, then interest in baseball dropped. This, despite the fact that the football franchise didn't even try to put a competitor on the field. Didn't have to. Sellouts were commonplace. Almost hate the Browns now because of it. The fans were stupid, not demanding a better product when 5 out of every 6 years the team was dog crap. The name change didn't affect me one bit. I'm a Cleveland baseball fan.

In defense of Marlin fans. They endured 5 separate fire sales in their history. And the new ballpark was built 20 miles south of the bulk of the franchises fanbase. Broward County. Stadium is also located in one of the poorest neighborhoods in all of Florida so everyone who does go to a game is coming at a minimum from 10 miles away.

Another reason why Florida teams don't have high turnout across sports is that there is also so much more to do there. Beaches with maritime activities, world class resorts and theme parks, generally higher standard of living, traveling back to their "home" town once or twice a year, etc. People only have so much discretionary income, so teams have to compete with where people spend their time and money.

Miami proved it will support baseball during the World Baseball Classic. Miami blew away all of the prior attendance marks. Miami likes baseball ... Miami just HATES the Marlins ownership group. The team has really never had decent ownership.

I love the Miami stadium. I'm a Red Sox fan, but if I were to move down to Florida I would definatly try to grab a ticket package for the Marlins. It's convenient parking and easy to get out after the game (of course that's because of the low attendance) but I've been there twice and really enjoyed it.

It's the prices of the tickets. For all baseball, and not just MLB. Get people in the stadium, and they'll spend money on concessions.

Won't be long until Oakland has zero professional sports teams. At one point they had the Warriors, Seals, A's, and Raiders.

The sad thing is that the people of Jacksonville (Marlins' AAA city) are more into baseball than Miami is. I remember reading an article at one point the attendance in a month was higher in Jacksonville (as AA) than it was in Miami.

Montreal Expos during the 1994 season had a team for the ages and looked like a real threat to win a World Series until the league went on a strike during the season with only a quarter of a season left before the playoffs. After that from 1995 to 2004 the attendance dropped and dropped at an alarming rate and fans in Montreal lost interest in Baseball as attendance kept declining, next it was evident a city like Montreal Quebec in Canada isn't really a destination to attract big ticket high priced free agent superstars. After the 2004 season and the last year the Expos played in Montreal it was the departure and relocation to Washington DC.

From 1999-2006, the Moneyball Era, the A's were one of the most competitive teams. The only thing missing was a title. These days the owner is just a horrible cheapskate.

I live in Clearwater and I can say that if the Rays' stadium were in a better location there'd be better attendance. I am 18 miles from both the Rays and the Buc's stadium. It takes 20 minutes to get to the Buc's and over 50 minutes (on a good day) to get to the Rays' ballpark.

Oakland had 3,000 in attendance last night.

If the Marlins get a winning team, they will pack loanDepot park. There are a lot of baseball fans in South Florida. The WBC proved that in March.

If the Brewers ownership keeps it up, they'll quickly be on this list! They royally pissed off their fans and their players with the 2022 disaster of trading away Josh Hader to the Padres. Then they doubled down, and took the best pitcher in baseball, a Cy Young award winner to arbitration over $700K...then doubled down on THAT by trying to blame him for not making the playoffs in 2022. They've cut payroll $12m from 2022 and raised prices for everything from season tickets (then lowered the bene's) to even spring training games!

Some of these "bad MLB cities" has more to do with bad ownership. I do think he was right about Tampa and a new park. They'd get some novelty gate for a couple of years and then back to where they are now. Same is true if the A's stay in Oakland. The Rays have been a very good team , winning their division in 20 and 21 plus a wildcard in 22, and they still can't draw flies.

I want to see if I have this right: a "good MLB city" is populated by gormless suckers who'll reward their team for whatever old crap they deign to put on the field, and be grateful for it to boot? Here's three cheers for "bad MLB cities."

oakland of course. the stadium is a giant piece of concrete that just looks like it nests on the bottom of a freeway overpass. im watching the A’s game right now and from the looks of it, there’s barely 2,000 people

Do you think Arizona suffers from baseball fatigue? Spring training is there, cheaper tickets etc.

I think Tampa can succeed if they had a park in Tampa proper.

I’m not proud to say that I haven’t been very helpful as an A’s fan, but I’m able to justify it through my support for their Single-A team. Stockton Ports tickets are much cheaper for better seats in a newer and better maintained park, that in my case takes less than half as long to drive to. It’s less so me not being a devoted fan and more that there isn’t much drawing me in compared to everything else going on in the area. The best case scenario for me would be the A’s getting a new venue somewhere in the bay area, but I realistically don’t see that happening anymore. I completely understand the appeal of moving to Las Vegas and it probably won’t feel like much of a loss to me as long as I have one of their Minor League affiliates nearby, especially if I stop seeing empty stands when they’re on TV. I wonder what’s going to happen with the Triple-A team currently in Vegas though

Be careful painting the State of Florida with a broad brush when it comes to attendance at sporting events. The NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning have sold out every game since 2015. That’s 41 home games every year plus a lot of playoff games as well. The Rays would draw much better if their stadium was located in or near Downtown Tampa (like the Lightning) instead of across the bay in St Pete. The worst news of all is that it appears that if the Rays are going to build their new stadium that it’s going to again be located in St Pete. Big mistake. It will be just like the situation in Miami. Beautiful new stadium in a bad location equals poor attendance. Location matters.

I think that the biggest problem with the Rays is the location of three minor league teams within the Tampabay area along with them. You have the Blue Jays in Dunedin, the Phillies in Clearwater, and the Yankees in Tampa. In what other major league cities do you have this much competition for fans? The only cities that come close would be NY (Yankees and Mets), Chicago (White Sox and Cubs) and LA (Angels and Dodgers)

Will never understand why people blame fans where most if not all the blame belongs on the owners. Loyalty, ha...

I remember the renderings for that new Tampa stadium in Ybor. That would have skyrocketed the Rays to one of the best baseball cities for sure.

I vacationed in Clearwater one year, and it seemed like it took forever to get over to Tropicana. I actually liked the park, bc it was so different. But the drive took like 45 minutes to an hour iirc

It's all because of the crazy prices to attend a game!! come on!! $10 for a Soda?

The other Floridians who say if the Rays move to Tampa proper it'd make a difference must not remember that the Lighting drew large crowds at the "Thunderdome" in St. Pete when it was their temporary home. And now the Lightning are good so they have an even better fan base now. Tampa Bay area loves hockey, but just aren't as big of fans of baseball. Part of that might be because Florida transplants might not have had an NHL team where they were originally from or didn't follow hockey then. Similar to how Vegas Golden Knights are the favorite team for Nevada.

The Marlin's attendence would double if the stadium was in a better location.

As a baseball>football guy in Cleveland, I really hope things turn around. I do really believe the fans can return if this team gets to be more exciting.

I think Tampa's unfair cus when the lightning do as good as they do in attendance it just shows they'll show up but I really think the location of the stadium is killing them

There's more WATER around Tropicana Field than actual land. Tough to draw fans from its location at the tip of a peninsula. Unless you live in the area, you have no clue how difficult it is to move around from the Tampa side of the bay to the Pinellas side. There is no 'mass transit' for fans to use. Pinellas is full of retired snow birds with affiliation to other teams. The Rays began in 1998 and their young fanbase is just now getting to the point where they can get to the games themselves. But yes, if a stadium were to be built on the Tampa side of the bay, it would make an enormous difference. Unfortunately, it looks more and more likely that they will build in the same area.

I once compared the attendance of the entire existence of the old KC A's verses the same number of years of the Oakland A's. KC supported the A's far better despite never having a winning season than Oakland which had multiple WS winners. My conclusion KC A's should have never moved, and most likely there would be a different MLB today.

The Trop is a good place to watch a game. Just too hard to get to. Especially from the Lakeland and Brandon area. Last Sunday game I went to cost me $240 for 2 in the middle deck area. Took 9 hours including the drive over and back. They're red hot now so maybe more will show up.

"But really sports in general just struggles in Florida to draw people" is true but somehow The Lightning a hockey team of all things team has over 300 consecutive sellouts

It’s honestly kind of sad when you think about it with Oakland especially considering that they are tied with the Boston Red Sox for second most World Series in the American League and third overall at 9. I also feel like the Oakland Athletics would be more geared towards the blue-collar workingman’s team of northern California, while the Giants are more of your upper class, white-collar and corporate team. Also, having watched your best city in both city less, I am somewhat surprised that New York city didn’t make either list

I went to a few diamondbacks games when I lived in PHX. Sadly it felt more like going to the mall/food court than going to a real ball park. There was no soul to the place at all.

I remember the Oakland A's of the early 1970s were the creme de la creme of MLB with the three-peat World Series crowns. What a difference five decades make.

Bank One ballpark does have a dope Rube Goldberg machine tho.

The biggest reason in Oakland is a city council that ballpark as well past its prime when the management decided hit the city council wasn't going to help them they wouldn't try improve the team and then the people stop coming

For teams like the Rays and Marlins, the added negative of starting games at 8 p.m. isn't helping them. If you're bringing your family to a game that starts at 8 and lasts three hours, you're not putting the kids to bed until midnight. You're not gonna do that on a school night.

Baseball in general is dying. They may overall see at temporary boost in revenue due to exploding TV deals for sports teams, but kids aren't fans of baseball or playing it like they did in say the 50s. This is due to baseball being a really boring sport to watch, a boring sport to play, and too many games. Football (college and Pros) is just much more exciting to watch. With more things to do than ever before, its not worth spending my time. I've declined free tickets.

Cincinnati has a boring, generic ballpark and lousy food. I'm surprised it's not on this list. Attendance is dismal. I tried going there, not worth the money.

I've been to Phoenix and attended a D-Backs game, and i think the biggest problem is the weather. There's just something wrong about playing baseball indoors on a summer day. i understand it's necessary since the midsummer heat in Phoenix is just brutal but it has the same charm as going to a shopping mall in the summer. I've been to 8 or so stadiums in the US and this was my least favourite. You can't really compare it to the Rockies because Coors Field is a great ballpark, great scenery, good brewery, and the population there is very active and into sports. However in the early and late season Phoenix is probably great when the roof is open.

I go to Arizona about once a year during the summer and I always end up going to a Dbacks game because tickets are cheap. I don’t know if it’s just because I’m from LA and am used to Dodger games, but Chase Field is so quiet. The announcer, the music they play, the fans, everything.

St Louis Cardinals: 3 to 3.5 million fans a year, always in top 5, and there are 19 metro areas with MLB teams that have bigger populations. They were 2nd in average home attendance last year, only behind the Dodgers.

Tropicana field is literally right on the highway outside of tampa nowhere near the centre of tampa, I can't even count the amount of times I've passed that arena and not even thought I might eventually attend a game. The lightning are a better bet in town in my opinion and so are the bucs. Idk what needs to happen but I lived in the gulf Coast area for probably 7 years and never thought about going to a game. The last point I think is big though, "there's so many people from somewhere else living in Florida" especially with all the snow birds who come in the winter months its crazy how much traffic there is, would take me maybe 20 minutes to get to work normally then all of a sudden took me about 1 hour to get into work, though I did work at the beach so it's expected, crazy thing is when covid hit it was a ghost town when it should have been the busiest season. I'm proud that Florida is a part of me though

aaah...actually...I really liked Chase Field! 110° outside, 65°! the fans are friendly and knowledgeable. not a bad 'seat in the house'. they even had a Hard Rock Cafe!

Agree 1000%. And I'm one of the fans who regularly attend games in Miami...

Cleveland what a fall from grace. 1990's Indians where on top with out winning a championship. I'm a Dodgers fan.

florida and arizona are the worst sports states in general due to all the people migrating from other states with sports teams just for the weather.

Rockies fan here. Coors field is known as the most popular bar in Denver. lol. People just go for a good time, barely watching the game, but at least they come. Tampa and Miami attendances are shameful; especially considering how many great players come from Florida. Is everyone at the beach?

Costs to much to go. We are stuck with a single A team since the realignment. 17 bucks a seat plus parking fee. Add popcorn and a drink you're looking at a 50 dollar date for two. I'll games on the MLB network. Damn blackouts don't help at all.

For Miami, Tampa, and Oakland, the problems with their attendance are generally a combination of one or multiple of these factors: -Stadium is a dump (A's, Rays) -Stadium location sucks (Rays) -The team is constantly torn down by penny-pinching ownership (all 3) -Constant relocation threats, holding cities hostage if they don't get shiny stadiums every 2 decades (all 3) -Jacking up ticket prices in spite of any of these problems (A's) It feels like the ownership groups of these teams are actively trying to drive a wedge between their teams and the locals. The Rays are damn-near impossible to reach from downtown Tampa due to them being in St. Petersburg, which is an atrociously congested bridge traffic trip away from where most of the fanbase would actually be (the fact that Tampa can sell out a HOCKEY team in part because they're downtown is a damning statement on the Rays stadium location). You'd have to plan your entire day around a big chunk of it being dedicated to traveling to the stadium, your job be damned, and even when you get there, the stadium is garbage and the owner would rather die than actually invest in the team's success 99% of the time. The Marlins have torn down their roster so many times in the last 2 decades that it's hard to keep track, and even harder for the Miami faithful to actually feel invested in the team since people know the players will probably be sold off to line the owner's pockets anyway. They've had terrible owner after terrible owner. And then you have Oakland, the poster child for what bad ownership does to a fanbase. Over the last 20 years Fischer has completely ruined a once-proud franchise, selling off the team for pennies whenever they get even remotely competitive to actively sabotage them, letting the Coliseum become literal sewage and a possum sanctuary, an active and credible threat of imminent relocation to Vegas, and to add insult to injury the ticket prices have been jacked up to be more expensive than Oracle Park. It's disgraceful. It's not that these teams can't be supported by their cities, as these cities have shown immense support to local sports teams in the past and even recently to other franchises in the area. The common theme here is it is 100% on the owners that can't be bothered to give the fans more reasons to show up. If these teams had more competent owners running things, I guarantee the fans would show up for them.

MLB attendance keeps falling year after year. And now we have more crazy rules to try to fix the problems. What happened to the 2 1/2-hour games of the 1960s and 1970s? In the old days, the pitcher was ready for the next pitch immediately. And if the batter was fooling around, he was going to get a close shave on the next pitch. I once saw Bob Gibson mow down the Pirates in less than two hours. Now we have a bunch of primadonnas who go on injured reserve if they get a scratch on their hand from sliding.

Phoenix is one of the best baseball cities in America: it might as well be the metropolitan of baseball as more pro baseball is played in this metro than any other- with the cactus league, extended spring training, the fall league, and ASU's storied program, so add that with the SABR headquarters, MLB winter meetings, etc - it seems weird to pin everything on Diamondbacks regular season attendance as the be-all and end-all. The one issue with the MLB in Phoenix is that the sports is played in the Summer. When you live in Phoenix, the one thing you do in the summer is try to leave Phoenix and travel. You sure as hell pick and choose when you have to leave your house. Also the stadium just isn't that great which also doesn't help. Comparing it to attendance in a beautiful ballpark in balmy Denver is utterly inane. Imagine if there was a sporting event every day downtown in your city during the winter, but it was essentially always snowing out. And trust me, it doesn't matter if the game is nighttime; during the summer it won't drop under 100 until around midnight. You must be from the north or the midwest with that kind of thinking. For example, the pre-all star game break homestand in 2022 was 7 games, all triple digits, with 5 games having starting temperatures higher than any AL Central cities ALL TIME RECORD high. Wondering why only 21k people saw the Dbacks beat the Rockies 9-2? Well getting to the game in 109 F heat that it was at the game's first pitch might be a factor.

I live in Atlanta Metro area and routinely see Rays bumper stickers. Personally I love the Rays. I think some of us (throughout the country) have also adopted them because of their underdog status

I believe a simple rule change would fix some of the attendance issues. Make the owners spend their revenue sharing on the team and not just pocket the money. I personally won't go to a Miami game because there is not very much parking unless they fixed their parking dilemma since the last time I was there in 2016. Like I want to stand around in 92° heat that feels like 115° in the Sun and then add in 95% humidity. I wouldn't go if it was free with free beer. As for Phoenix, no one wants to go out when it is 110+ degrees and roof or no roof you have to walk across a 150° street to get to the stadium. I've been there when it was 115° F and on blacktop pavement it is pushing 180°, yes 180 degrees or 83°C. Death valley measured over 200° F in the Sun on pavement. If the A's move to Vegas they'll need to put shade over walkways and use white cement for the parking lots or better parking buildings like at Chase field where no one wants to park on the roof.

As a native Miamian, I agree with this message.

Crazy how Florida produces such great baseball talent yet can be reasonably ranked as having the top two worst mlb cities.

Tampa & Miami Florida does not like baseball. Move the Rays to Montreal bring back the Expos & keep them in the AL east. Creating a natural rivalry w/ Toronto. Move the Marlins to Nashville (who wants a team badly) & keep them in the NL east.

would love to see this series with nba/nfl/nhl

So sad what has happened to Cleveland. MLB needs a salary cap in the worst way. Fans of small market teams get worn out by constantly seeing their best players leave eventually. Cleveland had such a stacked roster in the 90s and year by year, a piece would be lost due to salary.

Chicago. 2 summers ago we went to a White Sox night game. Just after getting on the Dan Ryan (expressway adjacent to the stadium) I thought I heard gunshots but my brother laughed it off. 2 days later I read about a newly retired special needs teacher who had been at the game with her former coworkers to celebrate her retirement and caught a stray bullet on the way home and died. I heard the shots that ended her life. And no this wasnt a random occurence. Theres like 200 expressway shootings a year in chicago. Stay away. Its like playing Russian Roulette but with someone else holding the gun to your head.

Hopefully the World Baseball Classic brings those numbers to Marlins games

About the only park worth seeing is Wrigley Field and maybe Fenway . I have watched a game at Milwaukees Retracto Dome and the only think cool about it is watching the roof close. Retracto Dome is about as sterile as it gets. Old School just works in sports - any sport. New Stadiums kind of suck no matter the sport or the city.

Admittedly attendance has been down in Phoenix, but I find it extremely hard to believe that Detroit, Pittsburgh or Cincinnati are any better off given the product they put on the field.

Cleveland fans were fiercely loyal and fanatical to their team. They felt there was nothing like Municipal Stadium, not even Wrigley Field or Yankee Stadium. They were crushed when they lost that stadium. Absolutely heartbroken.

Kiss my butt "Guardians" owners. Move the team!!!

Cleveland was a great baseball town, as was Oakland in the early part of the 2000's. It's pretty disappointing to see them both on this list.

As a Guardians fan, I can tell you very honestly that the Dolan family just will not spend to make a competitive team. They have been absolutely gifted with a great GM, who makes something out of nothing every year, along with a farm system that just keeps developing players (pitchers in particular) out of nowhere. Then as soon as a player hits their prime they get shuffled off to a team that will actually spend money on them. We as fans were told, "enjoy him while he's here," when we asked about Lindor's contract 2 years before his time was up. Imagine how insulting it is while you have a world series contender, to say that you have no interest in keeping your team together. They routinely are sellers at the deadline despite being in playoff contention. Just no commitment to winning. The only reason Jose Ramirez stuck around is that he took a one in a million hometown discount to stay. Cleveland will continue to have the longest World Series drought until Dolan sells to a person/ group who wants to win. They absolutely belong on this list.

i was working in phoenix last year and decided to catch a diamondbacks game while i was there and they just so happened to be playing the dodgers and there was a sea of dodger blue throughout the stadium it was so sad i caught two games and it was the same case in both games

I'm just happy my Royals didn't make this list.

Extremely stupid to look at cities when the teams are losing as people just aren’t going to put their money out when there is no winning.

When the Yankees & Red Sox come to Tampa, it basically becomes a home game for them, as they get more of their fans at the park than Rays fans.

Marlins winning two World Series titles and Tampa Bay won zero but the attendance I don’t know. Maybe it’s higher humidity that doesn’t have anyone coming to baseball games in summer in Florida

Cleveland RULED baseball in the late 90s / early 2000s. That Cleveland baseball team was a monster for like 10 years.

The problem is the that they keep giving away their best players to contenders with nothing in return. Whenever there's a rising star, they trade him for peanuts

Dishonorable mention for Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, although a lot of that is due to frankly cheapskate owners not paying for talent.

In warmer areas there are lots of other things to do, like go to the beach .

Such a shame the MLB spent so much time and money investing into the Florida markets when there is clearly 0 interest. Bring the Rays to Nashville!

No excuse for the Rays. If that team played in Kansas City, it would sell out every game.