All 30 MLB Ballparks RANKED Worst to Best

Even though it may not seem like it since I mainly post, tweet, and make videos about video games and movies, I am a big MLB fan (Phillies fan and Mets hater for life.) One thing I love about baseball compared to other sports like football and hockey is the stadiums. Each MLB ballpark is unique and interesting in its own way, with neat quirks not seen at many or none of the other stadiums. So, why not rank each ballpark? I’ll be ranking all 30 MLB ballparks (2023 season) based on their unique additions, atmosphere, and structure. So, let’s begin.

Disclaimer: This list is based on the unique elements of each stadium. I have only been to one of these ballparks, so keep that in mind. Anyway, let’s get started.

#30: Oakland-Alamenda County Coliseum

Home Team: Oakland Athletics
Opening Season: 1968
Capacity: 46,847+

It doesn’t look the A’s are playing here for much longer because of their move to Vegas, and that’s a good thing, at least when it comes to the coliseum. This stadium is literally falling apart. It’s ugly, it’s home to a variety of animals that live on the property, and it has too many strange things going on. No dugout fences, bullpens on the field (which I hate about every stadium that has them like this) and a disgusting asthetic. This place has no uniqueness, and looks like it’ll just fall apart at any moment.

#29: Tropicana Field

Home Team: Tampa Bay Rays
Opening Season: 1998
Capacity: 25,000

While not as ‘falling apart’ as the Oakland Coliseum, the Rays play in another ugly MLB ballpark. The place is ugly and it looks stupid. Everyone loves the white domed roof that’s the same color as the baseball, the catwalks in play, and the gross colors. This place is so stupid and it looks stupid from the inside-out. 

#28: Guaranteed Rate Field

Home Team: Chicago White Sox
Opening Season: 1991
Capacity: 40,615

Guaranteed Rate Field takes the cake for two things: 1. The stupidest stadium name in the world and 2. The most uninspiring outfield. It has a cool facade, but inside it’s a pretty born ballpark. It’s very simple and lacks neat and unique features compared to the other ballparks on this list.

#27: Coors Field

Home Team: Colorado Rockies
Opening Season: 1995
Capacity: 46,897

Time to head to Denver for Coors Field! While not a terrible stadium, it’s pretty simple. I’ve always thought it was neat to have an open concourse in the outfield, which this park has. The new screen is neat since the top is shaped like a mountain. Plus, since the stadium is built above sea level, lots of homers are hit here, making games here fun to watch.

#26: Great American Ball Park

Home Team: Cincinnati Reds
Opening Season: 2003
Capacity: 42,271

Why not put a riverboat in centerfield? This simple yet interesting stadium has great views of the water and a nice screen in leftfield. Here’s another stadium with a dumb name, although the signs are much funnier since they say “Great American Ball Park presented by Great American Insurance Group”. Since it’s the oldest club in baseball, lots of history can be seen here. A nice but mediocre place to watch a ball game.

#25: LoanDepot Park

Home Team: Miami Marlins
Opening Season: 2012
Capacity: 36,742

Wow! Another stupid name! This stadium has an ugly outfield with too many weird colors that don’t work. Plus, the batter’s eye looks empty now without the home run statue, but at least the Clevelander is still there! Otherwise, one of the most drab and empty-looking ballparks in the MLB.

#24: Chase Field

Home Team: Arizona Diamondbacks
Opening Season: 1998
Capacity: 48,405

Here’s a ballpark that looks like nothing like a ballpark from the outside. From Google Earth, it looks like a giant box with a baseball field inside. However, the box has a neat stadium inside. Lots of seats, a nice screen in centerfield, and even a pool! However, that’s pretty much it. There isn’t a lot of unique stuff here. However, I do like the roof design.

#23: Minute Maid Park

Home Team: Houston Astros
Opening Season: 2000
Capacity: 40,963

If I wasn’t looking at the technical side, I would immediately say this ballpark is the worst. However, technically, it isn’t. It has lots of seats and an interesting design. The Crawford boxes are neat, but it’s also a high wall making it tricky for right-handers to hit home runs. Leftfield is much shorter than right, like Fenway Park, but with a much shorter wall than the Green Monster. 

#22: Rogers Centre

Home Team: Toronto Blue Jays
Opening Season: 1989
Capacity: 49,282

While a marvel for its time, 30 years later it’s starting to show its age. However, the refurbished outfield looks nice with more areas to watch the game, removing some seating (which is fine because there’s lots and lots of seats.) Plus, you can watch the game from a hotel room – what’s wrong with that?

#21: T-Mobile Park

Home Team: Seattle Mariners
Opening Season: 1999
Capacity: 47,929

While there aren’t a ton of unique elements here, T-Mobile Park is still a nice place to watch a ball game. The retractible roof is well-designed, and the outfield is designed well with lots of seating and a concourse. The field also has really good dimensions and it’s overall a nice ballpark.

#20: Comerica Park

Home Team: Detroit Tigers
Opening Season: 2000
Capacity: 41,083

This place is pretty short compared to other ballparks, and it has a nice, classic design. A nice scoreboard and even Chevrolet Mountain. Plus, each gate has a neat design. One has a giant tiger statue, one has a ferris wheel. Comerica’s neighbor Ford Field can’t say that.

#19: American Family Field

Home Team: Milwaukee Brewers
Opening Season: 2001
Capacity: 41,900

Milwaukee has one of the most interesting and well-designed retractible roofs in the MLB with the two ends that turn and fold in towards each other. It looks so weird from the outside that the design is literally the ballpark’s logo. Otherwise, the new Miller Park is very nice. Heck, there’s even a slide!

#18: Progressive Field

Home Team: Cleveland Guardians
Opening Season: 1994
Capacity: 34,830

Next is Progressive Field, which looks well-designed and unique in many ways. The stadiun gives a nice view of Cleveland, a nice batter’s eye, and even a bar area by the leftfield foul pole. It’s all very neat, and makes for a very nice stadium for baseball.

#17: Globe Life Field

Home Team: Texas Rangers
Opening Season: 2020
Capacity: 40,300

Though not quite as nice as Globe Life Park, its successor Globe Life Field is still a very nice stadium. There’s seats all of the ballpark as well as multiple concourses, the nice, big scoreboard in rightfield, and a well-designed retractible roof (which makes sense for Texas). Overall, a very nice-looking ballpark.

#16: Angel Stadium

Home Team: Los Angeles Angels
Opening Season: 1966
Capacity: 45,517

And now I invite you to Trout and Ohtani’s playhouse, Angel Stadium of Anaheim. Two nice big scoreboards, a giant rock think in left-center, and you can’t talk about this park without talking about the facade. The home plate gate has giant bats holding up the sign with huge Angels hats on either side. Why not?

#15: Kauffman Stadium

Home Team: Kansas City Royals
Opening Season: 1973
Capacity: 37,903

Although it’s view behind the outfield is just highway and trees, the inside of this ballpark is pretty neat. The scoreboard is shaped like a shield with a crown on top. There are fountains that used to shoot up when a Royal hit a home run, and there’s a large grassy area right behind the stadium. It’s all very unique, but also very interesting and the feel of the ballpark is great.

#14: Citizens Bank Park

Home Team: Philadelphia Phillies
Opening Season: 2004
Capacity: 42,792

Surprisingly, I wasn’t that bias! Though Citizens Bank Park is the ballpark I always go to, home to my Fightin’ Phils, I tried to place it on this list technically. The new scoreboard is breathtaking and very big, Ashburn Alley is a great place to get some food, buy souvenirs, or watch the game. There’s lots of history here too, which is always nice to see. However, its view of Philly can’t be seen at the second deck or lower and it can make it hard to get to the ballpark as it is farther from the city. Still a great ballpark. GO PHILS!

#13: Citi Field

Home Team: New York Mets
Opening Season: 2009
Capacity: 41,922

Though I’ve already made my hate for the Mets very clear, their ballpark is still very nice. There’s a lot of neat-looking building and amenities in rightfield that look perfect for a New York team’s ballpark. There’s also a big scoreboard in centerfield, and even an apple that pops up under it when a homer is hit. Pretty cool.

#12: Target Field

Home Team: Minnesota Twins
Opening Season: 2010
Capacity: 38,544

Honestly, from the outside, this place looks sort of like a Target. Anyways, the Twins stadium is a nice improvement from the Metrodome. A large concourse area in right-center field, lots of buildings in the middle of the seating bowls, and a great new scoreboard. Overall a very nice ballpark.

#11: Truist Park

Home Team: Atlanta Braves
Opening Season: 2017
Capacity: 41,084

A lot of people like to hate on the Braves’ newest ballpark, it’s still very nice. There’s a lot of neat stuff going on here, including the Chop House in rightfield and a nice enough view of Atlanta. There’s also the huge area of stores and resteraunts outside of the gates surrounding the ballpark, which is all perfect for a stadium.

#10: Yankee Stadium

Home Team: New York Yankees
Opening Season: 2009
Capacity: 54,251

New Yankee Stadium usually gets shrugged off in comparison to Old Yankee Stadium, but the 2009 refurbishment of this legendary ballpark still looks nice. The facade looks nice and neat (although more like a museum than a baseball stadium), a well designed outfield, and lots and lots of ads. Still a great stadium with lots of history inside.

#9: Nationals Park

Home Team: Washington Nationals
Opening Season: 2008
Capacity: 41,313

Here’s another neatly-designed ballpark. Nationals Park’s outfield looks like a bunch of pieces put together, including seating, Budweiser Brew House with a bunch of tables outside, the batter’s eye with a large Nationals logo, more seating, and the bullpens. It all fits nicely and looks really great. However, I don’t really understand the appeal of the white and gray colors and the overall design of the facade behind home plate. It looks a little bit weird in comparison to the standard-looking inside.

#8: Busch Stadium

Home Team: St. Louis Cardinals
Opening Season: 2006
Capacity: 46,000

Not only do you get a great view of St. Louis from Busch Stadium, but you can even see the famous Gateway Arch. Busch Stadium feels original and unqiue with lots of charm. The outfield concoyrse is well-designed, there’s Big Mac Land, and so much more. A charming home for the Cardinals.

#7: Petco Park

Home Team: San Diego Padres
Opening Season: 2004
Capacity: 40,209

Here’s another MLB ballpark with a stellar outfield view, this one of San Diego. The beautiful home of the Padres is one of the most unique in the league. The Western Metal Supply Co. building in leftfield, Gallagher Square beyond centerfield, and so much more. Such a neat place to watch a ball game.

#6: Fenway Park

Home Team: Boston Red Sox
Opening Season: 1912
Capacity: 37,755

The oldest park in the MLB is still one of the most strange and interesting fields. Since leftfield is much shorter than right, the leftfield wall was built to be huge, creating the 37-foot tall Green Monster. There’s a lot of charm and interesting aspects about Fenway. Heck, you can get a drink at a bar and watch the game behind the centerfield wall. Where else can you do that?

#5: Dodger Stadium

Home Team: Los Angeles Dodgers
Opening Season: 1962
Capacity: 56,000

Dodger Stadium is classic baseball, and it’s awesome to see. The symetrical outfield with the two sets of bleachers and the single scoreboard behind each set is a simple yet recognizable and famous outfield design. Dodger Stadium has so many ammenities, with so many things to do beside watching the game. Plus, the color of the seats representing the sun reflecting on the sea is beautiful.

#4: Oracle Park

Home Team: San Francisco Giants
Opening Season: 2000
Capacity: 41,915

Located right next to South Beach Harbor and McCovey Cove, Oracle Park gives a beautiful view of the sea while also giving players a chance to get a famous splash hit. Oracle Park is beautiful with a great design, especially with Levi’s Landing in rightfield which opens up the view of the water. Plus, what’s better than marketing your soda with a giant bottle on the concourse in leftfield?

#3: Wrigley Field

Home Team: Chicago Cubs
Opening Season: 1916
Capacity: 41,649

How can something so old and beloved stay put for over 100 years and still be able to evolve with the modern era without losing its charm? Well, ask Wrigley Field. The Friendly Confines has been the beautiful ballpark in the neighborhood of Landsdale that baseball fans have loved for over a century. The fact that Wrigley can stay relevant with modern baseball fans whiel still feeling like early 1900s baseball is an incredible feat.

#2: PNC Park

Home Team: Pittsburgh Pirates
Opening Season: 2001
Capacity: 38,747

If you ask me, I’ll say that PNC Park in Pittsburgh has the best outfield view in all of baseball. Right up against the Allegheny River with the golden bridges and the beautiful Pittsburgh city skyline behind it. PNC Park is a beautiful ballpark with a great outfield area and great places to watch the game.

#1: Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Home Team: Baltimore Orioles
Opening Season: 1992
Capacity: 45,971

The original new-classic era stadium where jewel-box fields were reborn. Oriole Park is as classic as it gets with a beautifully-designed stadium and a great feeling of old-school baseball. The outfield is well-design and there are some great views of Baltimore’s inner harbor. Spectacular.

What’s your favorite MLB ballpark? Let me know in the comments.

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