We’ve researched the average costs that a fan attending every home game in the 2023 season will face across every MLB team, to see how they compare.
Being a Major League Baseball fan is more than just a pastime, it's an investment, both emotional and financial.
While it’s hard to measure emotional investment, with a bit of number crunching it’s possible to calculate the exact dollars and cents that a typical fan of each MLB team needs to spend throughout a season to attend every home game.
And we’ve done just that, by researching and compiling the following costs for the 2023 season:
The Cubs and the Yankees are neck and neck for most expensive, with the cost of being a Cubs fan coming in at $10,770, while being a Yankees will set you back $10,633.
At the other end of the rankings, the Pittsburgh Pirates are less than half the cost of the most expensive team, costing the average fan a mere $4,059 in 2023. While the second cheapest are the Arizona D-Backs, coming in at $4,659.
Here are the highlights from our research:
And here’s our ranking of the total cost of being a fan for every MLB team in 2023, from most expensive to least expensive, using the above formula:
So there you have it, the average cost of being an MLB fan broken down by team, for the 2023 season. Hopefully it’s money well spent and your team is World Series champion!