Every MLB Stadium’s Fan Sentiment

1. Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Facility rank: 1

Family rank: 6

Fan experience rank: 6

Food and drink rank: 7

Overall rank: 1

Baltimore’s Camden Yards ranks tops overall and we’ve already praised its staff — but one thing that you may not know is that fans really like its barbecue.

Thank Boog’s Barbecue for that. Since Camden Yards opened 25 years ago, the one-time AL MVP, Boog Powell, has been dishing out brisket at O’s games. And now his barbecue is the most popular in baseball – more popular than BBQ in Kansas City or either of the two Texas stadiums.

Maybe that makes sense. If you buy barbecue from a guy named “Boog,” you’re going to enjoy it.

2. PNC Park

Facility rank: 3

Family rank: 1

Fan experience rank: 1

Food and drink rank: 12

Overall rank: 2

3. AT&T Park

Facility rank: 10

Family rank: 9

Fan experience rank: 2

Food and drink rank: 5

Overall rank: 3

4. Safeco Field

Facility rank: 9

Family rank: 10

Fan experience rank: 9

Food and drink rank: 6

Overall rank: 4

5. Ewing M. Kauffman Stadium

Facility rank: 4

Family rank: 2

Fan experience rank: 7

Food and drink rank: 15

Overall rank: 5

Kauffman Stadium features a 100 by 85 feet jumbotron, known as “Crown Vision.” It’s topped by a light-up crown, and at the time of its installation in 2007, it was the largest HD scoreboard in the world. Needless to say, fans really like it:

6. Great American Ball Park

Facility rank: 6

Family rank: 11

Fan experience rank: 4

Food and drink rank: 14

Overall rank: 6

7. Progressive Field

Facility rank: 7

Family rank: 15

Fan experience rank: 10

Food and drink rank: 9

Overall rank: 7

If you’re in Cleveland, the thing to do, apparently, is eat ice cream:

Progressive Field has almost twice the amount of mentions of ice cream as the next stadium. The reason is Pierre’s, a local Cleveland ice cream brand that has been in operation since 1932.

The most popular flavor we saw mentioned by name was “Moose Tracks,” so be ready for peanut butter cups in your ice cream.

8. Coors Field

Facility rank: 14

Family rank: 4

Fan experience rank: 5

Food and drink rank: 10

Overall rank: 8

9. Petco Park



Facility rank: 15

Family rank: 12

Fan experience rank: 12

Food and drink rank: 8

Overall rank: 9

Congratulations, Padres fans, your bathrooms are the best the baseball:

10. Citizens Bank Park

Facility rank: 12

Family rank: 20

Fan experience rank: 8

Food and drink rank: 3

Overall rank: 10

11. Busch Stadium

Facility rank: 2

Family rank: 13

Fan experience rank: 3

Food and drink rank: 19

Overall rank: 11

You’ll hear people tell you that the Cardinals fans are the best fans in baseball.

You’ll hear that a lot.

Sometimes from Cardinals fans themselves.

So we wanted to check the review data. As it turns out, fans at Busch are 12 times more likely to describe themselves as “the best fans” compared to the typical team’s fans.

To be fair, we should also check the sentiment scores every time someone mentioned the crowd at a stadium:

As it turns out, people really do talk about the crowd at Busch more positively than at any other stadium.

12. Comerica Park

Facility rank: 13

Family rank: 7

Fan experience rank: 11

Food and drink rank: 13

Overall rank: 12

It may sound silly, but one of the things Tigers fans really enjoy is the entrance to the stadium, which features giant statues of tigers, tiger gargoyles, and large photos of Ernie Harwell and Ty Cobb. For what it’s worth, more fans talk about the entrance at Comerica than the entrance at Wrigley (and its iconic “Home of Chicago Cubs” sign).

Comerica also has a perfect score for its staff. In all 160 times our algorithm flagged a mention of Comerica Park’s staff, a reviewer was talking about them positively.

13. Miller Park

Facility rank: 21

Family rank: 8

Fan experience rank: 14

Food and drink rank: 4

Overall rank: 13

In what will come as no surprise to anyone who has crossed the Wisconsin state border, Miller Park has the most mentions of Sausage.

Note: this is only food-related mentions of sausage. All sausage race mentions were left out.

14. Globe Life Park

Facility rank: 8

Family rank: 3

Fan experience rank: 13

Food and drink rank: 17

Overall rank: 14

15. Chase Field

Facility rank: 11

Family rank: 14

Fan experience rank: 20

Food and drink rank: 16

Overall rank: 15

16. Target Field

Facility rank: 5

Family rank: 30

Fan experience rank: 15

Food and drink rank: 2

Overall rank: 16

Target Field’s staff score very highly (.98 vs. league average of .90) so perhaps there is something to the whole Minnesota nice thing.

17. Citi Field

Facility rank: 19

Family rank: 19

Fan experience rank: 18

Food and drink rank: 11

Overall rank: 17

Citi Field boasts the most popular burgers in baseball. In fact, it accounts for 15% of all burger mentions, likely due to the popularity of Shake Shack at Citi Field.

18. Angel Stadium of Anaheim

Facility rank: 17

Family rank: 5

Fan experience rank: 21

Food and drink rank: 21

Overall rank: 18

19. Minute Maid Park

Facility rank: 16

Family rank: 18

Fan experience rank: 16

Food and drink rank: 22

Overall rank: 19

20. Guaranteed Rate Field

Facility rank: 26

Family rank: 24

Fan experience rank: 24

Food and drink rank: 1

Overall rank: 20

As we covered above, Guaranteed Rate has the top-rated food in MLB, 40% better than average. This is remarkable simply because food, in general, has lower sentiment scores than any other part of the stadium experience.

That isn’t to say that food at stadiums is bad. Likely, what we’re seeing is that fans are more critical about food than other parts of the stadium experience.

21. Fenway Park

Facility rank: 22

Family rank: 16

Fan experience rank: 17

Food and drink rank: 24

Overall rank: 21

There are a couple of ways Fenway stands out compared to other stadiums.

First, is its tour. Fenway gets three times more mentions of a tour than Wrigley Field, and way more than any other stadium.



Second, it’s the most likely stadium for fans to mention it’s on their “bucket list.”

22. Tropicana Field

Facility rank: 18

Family rank: 17

Fan experience rank: 28

Food and drink rank: 23

Overall rank: 22

One the most common complaints fans have with the Trop is the dome (a just barely negative sentiment score -.04).

Fans also are critical about its location. Tropicana Field is located outside of Tampa, and many have suggested that this distance causes low attendance at Rays’ games. Sure enough, Tropicana Field scores 76% below league average for its location (.212 sentiment score vs. league average of .885.)

23. Nationals Park

Facility rank: 25

Family rank: 23

Fan experience rank: 22

Food and drink rank: 20

Overall rank: 23

This may not be the *most* statistically significant finding, but we checked which stadiums had the most mentions of bros:

Nats fans, the trophy is all yours.

24. Marlins Park

Facility rank: 24

Family rank: 27

Fan experience rank: 23

Food and drink rank: 18

Overall rank: 24

Forget the fountain, the best part of Marlin’s Park is probably the bobblehead museum which is the second most popular museum in reviews.

25. Wrigley Field

Facility rank: 27

Family rank: 22

Fan experience rank: 19

Food and drink rank: 25

Overall rank: 25

There’s no easy way to say this: Wrigley’s fans are the drunkest. By far.

Wrigley’s reviews are 8 times more likely to have someone complain about drunken behavior than the typical stadium.

26. Yankee Stadium

Facility rank: 23

Family rank: 28

Fan experience rank: 27

Food and drink rank: 26

Overall rank: 26

When the Yankees moved from the House that Ruth Built to the house Steinbrenner built across the street, there was concern they’d lose some connection to its history. While its reviews have below average sentiment scores across the board, the Bronx Bombers still boast the most popular museum:

27. Dodger Stadium

Facility rank: 29

Family rank: 21

Fan experience rank: 26

Food and drink rank: 27

Overall rank: 27

28. Rogers Centre

Facility rank: 20

Family rank: 29

Fan experience rank: 25

Food and drink rank: 30

Overall rank: 28

29. SunTrust Park (& Turner Field)

Facility rank: 28

Family rank: 25

Fan experience rank: 29

Food and drink rank: 28

Overall rank: 29

Despite being a brand new stadium, SunTrust hasn’t performed better in terms of fan sentiment than Turner Field. It’s still early in the stadium’s history, of course. The staff is still working out a few kinks.

Here’s how SunTrust compares with Turner Field in a few of the top keywords reviewers use to describe each stadium:

30. O.co Coliseum / The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum

Facility rank: 30

Family rank: 26

Fan experience rank: 27

Food and drink rank: 29

Overall rank: 30

Sure, Oakland may not have the nicest bathrooms. But what it lacks in terms of cleanliness and modern design, it makes up for in nachos:

Nachos = the new market inefficiency?