Which ballpark is better

In fact, when installed before the season, the team claimed it was the largest HD LED board in the world. Additionally, there's plenty of room to move around within the park.

Everyone needs to stretch their legs once in a while, right? History is undoubtedly a major draw at Fenway Park, which opened in to house the Boston Red Sox. The outfield is arguably the most unique in all of baseball, largely thanks to the foot-tall Green Monster. The left field foul pole is only feet from home plate, while the right field fence is feet away. The point of the triangle in center field, however, is a monstrous feet.

Although some fans can find themselves in an obstructed view, the mystique of Fenway is both relevant and apparent when inside. No, this is not Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. This beauty of a stadium is Coors Field, where the Colorado Rockies play.

If you're a fan of food — let's be serious, of course you are — and adult beverages, there's a bevy of terrific state-produced options. Coors has a built-in disadvantage because of Denver's elevation. As a way to counteract increased ball flight, the fences are deeper than at most stadiums, so several seats can feel distant.

With MLB 's third-largest capacity, though, other seats are readily available. Similar to a day at Fenway, there's something extra special about taking in a baseball game at Wrigley Field. The city of Pittsburgh is pretty cool, with all the stadiums on top of one another and all the teams the same color.

It's really cool. Of all the new-age ballparks, this one does it the best. Well, because of the warehouse in right field. Taking in the game from the concourse in right field, between the warehouse and the field, is definitely my favorite spot!

This new ballpark does a great job of continuing to upgrade. From my first visit to my most recent, the stadium has improved greatly. I definitely recommend This park is a perfect mixture of a good view and great history. Plus, you can almost always be certain the weather will be pristine. The All-Star Game is when I got to check this stadium off of my list! They nailed it with the renovations of this ballpark.

This one might have some bias behind it. But it truly is awesome. With the Detroit skyline in the background, the big fountain out in center and the statues of all-time greats next to the fountain, Comerica Park is definitely one of my favorites. Busch Stadium Home of the St. Louis Cardinals Built in For me, this ballpark is all about the view. With the St. Speaking of the arch, did you know you can go up in it?!

With blue and orange features throughout the ballpark, they kept it classy with this Shea Stadium upgrade. It's a perfect mixture of retro and modern. The planes taking off from nearby LaGuardia Airport every few minutes are cool, too This is a fun ballpark. The Liberty Bell that lights up is an awesome touch. This field plays really small, so expect lots of home runs, which are always fun to see. The ball flies out of this stadium, and there are huge smokestacks that shoot fire after home runs.

All the history in and around this ballpark makes it a good all-around experience from pregame to postgame. This is truly a stadium unlike any other, and when the roof is closed, it gets LOUD. This is your typical new-age ballpark. It's very nice, and there really isn't a bad seat in the place. It's worth a visit. This is a typical new stadium. It's very nice all around, and the left-field concourse is my favorite spot from which to watch the game.

I really wanted to love this stadium. Old Yankee Stadium was one of my favorites. But this new stadium feels too corporate. Everything is very expensive, from the food to the tickets, and that just makes it difficult for many to get to a lot of games during the season. I always thought I would love this stadium. The rocks out in center field look so cool.

It turns out they are cool, but that is about the only great part of this stadium. It needs major renovations to turn the fan experience into a good one. There's not much to it when walking around, and it's pretty old. To no surprise, Tropicana Field is toward the bottom of the list.

I looked back up, and the ball was gone. I ended up making the catch somehow, but it was definitely not fun. The Rays need a new stadium. Everyone knows that. It was the loudest stadium I had ever been to at the time. The place itself is awful and needs to be torn down now that the Raiders are gone.

This fan base deserves the best because A's fans like to party. The history, the day games, the ivy wall, Wrigleyville — I want to witness it all so badly! San Diego has beautiful weather, the Western Metal Supply Company building in left field is so unique, and now the team is great. I need to take in a game here soon. Also, what other stadium can say it hosted the entire World Series? In , Globe Life Park did just that in its first year open. Now that Derek Jeter has taken over, this place looks less like an amusement park and more like a place where I'd love to watch a baseball game.

Who knows? In a couple of years, I might get to watch a playoff game in this ballpark. In fact, the day my brother was drafted by the Tigers, I said, "When you play the Braves, I will root for you to do well, but I hope the Braves win! This place looks different, and I want to see if I love it or hate it. Stay tuned. But I want to go because the slide looks cool. Not that I can slide on it, but the mascot sliding down after a home run seems pretty neat. This is definitely the second of the two stadiums I want to check out in Chicago.

Maybe I can catch a day game at Wrigley and then drive to the South Side to catch a night game. This one just seems old and not like a stadium I would love, but eventually, I will get to knock off all 30 stadiums, and I hear great things about Toronto. Follow him on Twitter Verly Sign In. Premier Boxing Champions. Skip and Shannon: Undisputed. The Herd with Colin Cowherd. Club Shay Shay. Flippin' Bats with Ben Verlander.

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So far in , Angel Stadium has been one of baseball's most explosive venues for offense, with no fewer than nine runs being scored in eight of the nine games that it has hosted along with an average of more than three home runs per contest. It's a trend that's unlikely to continue, as the "The Big A" has traditionally favored pitchers.

From to , Angel Stadium ranked 15th in runs scored 1, , 16th in slugging percentage. Enjoy the high-octane offense while you can, for the park is likely to regress back toward its norms the deeper we get into the season. As is the case with some of the other parks on this list, Busch Stadium is a pitcher's park that is playing like a hitter's paradise in Typically one of the more difficult places for a player to pick up an extra-base hit — evidenced by a. With more foul territory available to defenders than you typically find elsewhere, and with the home team boasting one of the more talented pitching staffs in baseball, it won't be long before offense at Busch Stadium falls back in line with its normal numbers.

When the Mets decided to reconfigure Citi Field's outfield dimensions after the season, the goal was to create a ballpark that was fair to both hitters and pitchers, as GM Sandy Alderson explained to MLB. We didn't want to completely alter the ballpark and make it a proverbial bandbox. That required looking at various dimensions and coming up with something that, based on home run rates and park factors and so forth, was more or less neutral as between pitching and hitting.

What they got was a park that, while more hitter-friendly than it had been since its opening in , still plays as one of the most pitcher-friendly venues in baseball. Over the past two seasons, Citi Field has seen the seventh-fewest runs scored 1, , the 12th-fewest home runs hit and a slugging percentage. It comes as no surprise, then, to see Citi Field's TPF in nearly identical to its mark from the two previous seasons. Due to an open-air park being next to Lake Erie, balls hit into the air at Progressive Field are often at the mercy of the winds that blow in off of the lake, which can either keep a ball in the field of play or push it well beyond the reach of an outfielder's outstretched glove.

While the park grades out as a slightly hitter-friendly venue in , it's been anything but that over the past two years, with a. The hardest place in baseball to put a run on the board, Dodger Stadium is, without question, a pitcher's paradise. One of baseball's most storied and celebrated ballparks, the subterranean ballpark fans enter in the middle of the stands, not at ground level has been home to the sixth-fewest home runs and fifth-lowest slugging percentage.

The uptick in offense this season can be at least partially attributed to mediocre home performances from pitchers like Paul Maholm The American League's most pitcher-friendly venue, Safeco Field consistenly ranks among the top third of parks when it comes to pitching-friendly factors — even with the changes the club made to the outfield before last season, which were intended to increase offense.

Progressive Field has moved a few spots up the list after the club made a bevy of renovations to the park and secured the All-Star Game. Season ticket holders now have access to a newly established club lounge behind home plate, while new outfield party decks and concessions have been installed throughout the stadium. New scoreboards that really make The Old Jake pop with modernity as well. The only real knock on this ballpark is the foot wall in left field that takes away the intimacy of the game from the fans sitting in the outfield.

The outside facade is nice, a tribute to Ebbets Field, and the outfield seating offers a touch of nostalgia from older parks as well. The new park is certainly an improvement over Shea Stadium anything would have been , but it seems like something is just missing with Citi Field.

Louis Cardinals Opened: Capacity: 45, Attendance: 42, 2nd. The team recently added large social gathering spaces in the upper deck of right field that includes cabana and lounge seating. SEC football?

Outside of the view of the Arch in center, nothing about the newest Bush really stands out. Everything is symmetrical. Everything is dark green or brick. There are no oddities or eccentricities, just a byfoot video board hanging above right field.

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Opened: major renovation completed in Capacity: 45, Attendance: 37, 5th. Despite having one of the oldest yards in the league and the Angels only making one postseason appearance in the last 10 seasons, Angels fans continue to pack their home ballpark.

Sure, having this generation's greatest player helps, but so does the amazing year-round Southern California weather. The rock waterfall in left-center still holds up as a fun ballpark quirk. But the foot wall in right field and the seating behind the bullpens in left take away some closeness from the action. Houston Astros Opened: Capacity: 41, Attendance: 35, 9th. The open-air left-field is highlighted by train tracks and the home run locomotive carrying a supply of oranges that compliments the huge video board above the double-decker right-field seating.

In recent years, the park has provided quite the home-field advantage for the Astros. When the sound is just right, you can just barely hear the trash cans banging over the roar of the Houston crowd. Seattle Mariners Opened: Capacity: 47, Attendance: 22, 20th. The newly dubbed T-Mobile Park originally known as Safeco Field is one of the biggest yards in baseball.

The view over the left-field wall of the Emerald City skyline is one of the best in baseball. The lower bowl offers solid sightlines but the action is too far away. While still young, the Mariners' home park is due for some minor upgrades to keep up with the times. Washington Nationals Opened: Capacity: 41, Attendance: 27, 16th. The glass and steel facade of the ballpark is really neat and fits in well with the rest of the classic D. The Navy Yard location has been a real boon for the area, but the park itself lacks character, especially for such a new stadium.

The fan experience and the sightlines could be the best in the league, but there is nothing that makes the field really stand out. Detroit Tigers Opened: Capacity: 41, Attendance: 18, 25th. Comerica Park is oft-forgotten, yet underrated.