All 30 MLB Stadiums, Ranked From Worst to First

The debate over what makes a good stadium experience isn’t an existential one … even though it might feel like it sometimes. 

Going to the ballpark is our oldest American sports tradition. It’s also a tradition that’s continued to evolve over time. And by evolving, that means we want a little bit of everything when we go to an MLB stadium. Great concessions. Great seats. Great city. Great team. 

No one stadium can really have it all, but some try harder than others. Here’s our ranking of all 30 MLB stadiums, from worst to first. 

Location: Oakland, California

Capacity: 46,847

Opened: 1966

Bottom line: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum was going to be low on any list of this type put out in recent decades. But it gets the very bottom spot here because it will no longer exist as an MLB ballpark once the A’s move to Las Vegas. 

The thing the Coliseum always had going for it was history — of great players and winning teams and, in one case, a story so unique in MLB history it became arguably one of the greatest movies of the last 20 years. 

None of that exists anymore. Just the pain of losing a team. 

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Location: St. Petersburg, Florida

Capacity: 25,000

Opened: 1990

Bottom line: That a baseball field located in heavenly St. Petersburg is ranked this low gives you all the information you need to know about the oversized trash can of a ballpark called Tropicana Field. 

How bad is this stadium, and how bad are baseball fans in the greater Tampa area? The Rays have made the playoffs for four consecutive seasons, yet barely get over 10,000 fans per game. There has to be a city somewhere in America that would actually appreciate this team, and please believe Tropicana Field gets the bottom spot back once the A’s leave Oakland for Las Vegas. 

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Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Capacity: 41,500

Opened: 1989

Bottom line: The SkyDome was the place to be in the early 1990s as the Toronto Blue Jays took baseball by storm, winning back-to-back World Series titles in 1992 and 1993. 

Thirty years later, the franchise has done its best to try and make the ballpark (now known as Rogers Centre) seem like it was made just for baseball (it wasn’t). But the question remains: At what point will Toronto bite the bullet and actually build a stadium specifically for baseball?

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Location: Detroit, Michigan

Capacity: 41,083

Opened: 2000

Bottom line: Being in Detroit — for whatever reason — isn’t great. That the few good experiences you can have in the city include watching professional sports doesn’t do much to enhance things when you consider how terrible Detroit’s teams have been in recent years. 

Comerica Park has all the icy appeal of a billionaire’s third wife. It really says something that Comerica Park can spark feelings of longing for Tiger Stadium, where home games sometimes felt like stepping into a post-apocalyptic movie. The Tigers also haven’t made the postseason since 2015. 

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