Cheapest Tickets in the MLB

24/7 Wall St.: The Cheapest Tickets in Baseball

The Major League Baseball (MLB) season is in full swing, with the National League winning the All-Star game earlier this month. We are now also in the middle of summer, when millions of Americans grab their friends, families, some ballpark food and the cheapest bleacher seats they can find to watch the national pastime. Of course, exactly how cheap these “cheap seats” are depends on where you live. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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Cheapest Tickets... The Major League Baseball (MLB) season is in full swing, with the National League winning the All-Star game earlier this month. We are now also in the middle of summer, when millions of Americans grab their friends, families, some ballpark food and the cheapest bleacher seats they can find to watch the national pastime. Of course, exactly how cheap these “cheap seats” are depends on where you live. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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5. Los Angeles A... Price of Cheapest Section: $7.96
2012 W/L Record: 50-41 (9th highest)
Stadium Seating Capacity: 45,957 (10th highest)
Avg. home game attendance: 37,211 (9th highest)

Owners of the Angels and its crosstown rivals, the Dodgers, have 101,957 seats to fill between them 81 times a season. The Los Angeles metropolitan area, second in number of households to New York, helps in building a sizable fan base. This year, those fans may find games much more exciting this since the Angels are on track to make the playoffs. But cheap tickets also may help attendance at Angel Stadium, where more 37,000 people attend the average home game. The team has managed to fill an average of 82% of the seats in home games this season, better than all but two teams on this list. Tickets cost $36.53 on average, but if you are willing to sit up high, you can snag a seat for $7.96 in section 535. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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4. Los Angeles D... Price of Cheapest Section: $7.04
2012 W/L Record: 48-44 (10th highest)
Stadium Seating Capacity: 56,000 (the highest)
Avg. home game attendance: 41,212 (6th highest)

While tickets in section 8 of Dodger Stadium’s top deck have sold for an average of $7.04 this year, upgrading out of the nosebleed section may not break the bank either. The average ticket price throughout the stadium is $33.97, lower than any other team in the majors. But the Dodgers have 56,000 seats to fill for 81 games a year, and nearly 15,000 seats a game have gone unsold during the 2012 season. Attendance as a percentage of capacity is 73.2%, lower than the Angels’ 82%, but an improvement over the 64.7% the Dodgers managed to fill last year. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

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3. Texas Rangers Price of Cheapest Section: $6.61
2012 W/L Record: 55-35 (2nd highest)
Stadium Seating Capacity: 48,194 (7th highest)
Avg. home game attendance: 43,607 (2nd highest)

Even though the Rangers were American League Pennant winners in 2010 and 2011 and have the second-highest record in baseball this year, tickets in section 341 at Rangers Ballpark have sold for under $7 on average this year. But just because some seats are cheap does not mean you can snag a bargain everywhere. The average ticket costs $56.25, the sixth highest of all MLB teams. Yet that has not stopped fans from going to games. On average, 89% of seats were filled so far during home games in 2012, a higher percentage than any team on this list. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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2. Miami Marlins Price of Cheapest Section: $6.50
2012 W/L Record: 44-46 (11th lowest)
Stadium Seating Capacity: 36,742 (3rd lowest)
Avg. home game attendance: 28,442 (13th lowest)

The Miami Marlins, formerly the Florida Marlins, are currently in their first season playing at Marlins Park. This year marks the first year that the Marlins have played in Miami after moving from Ft. Lauderdale. With a new ballpark with limited seating, one might think that tickets would be hard to come by. But tickets in section 325 of the Vista Reserved section have sold for an average of $6.50. Part of this may be due to the fact that the Miami metro region has the second-lowest median household income among all 30 teams, at $45,352. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

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1. Milwaukee Bre... Price of Cheapest Section: $5.38
2012 W/L Record: 43-47 (9th lowest)
Stadium Seating Capacity: 41,900 (13th lowest)
Avg. home game attendance: 34,943 (11th highest)

The cheapest tickets in baseball are in Terrace Reserve 421, running just north of $5. Although, if you sit there, you might not know who’s on first. Gerry Abell of stadium-advisor.com points out that two huge columns in sections 420 and 421 block the view of much of the field. Yet, irrespective of the columns, going to a Brewers game is generally an affordable outing. The average ticket on the secondary market costs only $35.13, the third lowest of all major league teams. Attendance has gotten a boost from this — Milwaukee is the smallest metropolitan area with a major league baseball team, yet it has the 11th highest average attendance at home games, filling almost 35,000 seats. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

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