When it comes to quality ballparks to watch some MLB action, one of the best options in the nation sits right in the backyard of the Crossroads, with Kansas City Royals' Kauffman Stadium posting solid scores across a host of baseball-related metrics in 2025.
The ballpark, which is the fifth oldest in the league (built in 1973), scored 29 points across the metrics used for this story, ranking behind baseball palaces like Minneapolis’ Target Field (16 points), Miami’s LoanDepot Park (21 points), Seattle’s T-Mobile Park (23 points) and Denver’s Coors Field (28 points).
As Spring Training kicks off this week and is about a month until Opening Day, BetMissouri.com paused its Missouri sports betting coverage to figure out what ballpark was the best location to catch a game this upcoming season. Factoring in stadium atmosphere rankings from USA Today, along with average ticket and concession prices, we created a scoring system to see which ballpark is the best to catch a game. Lower prices for concessions and tickets favored better for ballparks, while higher atmosphere rankings was better for the location.
Top 10 Ballparks to Catch a Game in 2025
Rank | Ballpark | Total Score |
1 | Target Field (Minnesota Twins) | 16 |
2 | LoanDepot Park (Miami Marlins) | 21 |
3 | T-Mobile Park (Seattle Mariners) | 23 |
4 | Coors Field (Colorado Rockies) | 28 |
T-5 | Kauffman Stadium (Kansas City Royals) | 29 |
T-5 | PNC Park (Pittsburgh Pirates) | 29 |
7 | Citi Field (New York Mets) | 33 |
8 | Truist Park (Atlanta Braves) | 36 |
9 | Comerica Park (Detroit Tigers) | 38 |
10 | Citizens Bank Park (Philadelphia Phillies) | 40 |
Where Kauffman Stadium Ranks
Overall, Kauffman Stadium’s score of 29 points finished in a tie for fifth alongside PNC Park in Pittsburgh and ahead of baseball meccas like Citi Field (home of the New York Mets), Truist Park (home of the Atlanta Braves), Comerica Park (home of the Detroit Tigers) and Citizens Bank Park (home of the Philadelphia Phillies).
PNC Park finished with 29 points to rank alongside Kauffman Stadium leaguewide, while Citi Field (33 points), Truist Park (36 points), Comerica Park (38 points) and Citizens Bank Park (40 points) were the parks that rounded out the MLB top 10 in 2025.
Overall, few ballparks in America held the type of sway across a host of metrics that Kansas City’s beloved bastion of baseball did in 2025, though, as Kauffman Stadium showed itself to be more than up to the task of being a quality ballpark, some 42 years after it opened its doors to the public on the eastern fringes of the city.
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USA Today photo by Jay Biggerstaff
Author
Christopher Boan is a lead writer for BetMissouri.com, specializing in covering state issues. He has covered sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.
