Minnesota Twins Take Over Highest Ticket Price Spot from Boston Red Sox

At SeatGeek , we have been working hard on creating new ticket pages, which show average transaction price of each team on the secondary market, average listing prices, a historical ticket price tracker, top home/away games and more (See Minneosta Twins Ticket Price Page ). Transaction price is a great way to gauge fan sentiment, since it shows how much fans are actually willing to pay on the secondary market for tickets to see their team play. These pages also rank the teams by who has the highest transaction price for tickets over the course of the last week, and in essence, these rankings are a reflection of fan sentiment of that team.

Since we’ve began keeping track, the Boston Red Sox ticket prices have been the highest. The number one ranking has been due to the overall high demand for Red Sox tickets. The Red Sox are a great team, with a great fanbase, and Fenway Park has one of the smallest capacities in all of baseball, making it that much harder to get tickets. These factors, and more, have driven Red Sox prices on the secondary market up to an average of $90 in 2010. Recently, however, the prices of tickets have been trending downward, and the average sits at $79.

As the Red Sox prices have decreased, the Minnesota Twins prices have increased. The Twins are currently riding a five game win streak, and two weeks ago, swept their division rival Chicago White Sox at home, who had won nine games in a row prior to that series.

While the Twins have been playing well, a major factor in their high ticket demand has been the fact that the Twins are playing in a brand new stadium in 2010. 2010 is the first opportunity fans get to check out Target Field, and demand for tickets is very high—which drives up the price of tickets for Twins games. Recently, Twins ticket prices have been transacting for $80!

If you are wondering where your favorite team ranks amongst the rest of baseball, SeatGeek has a page for that too! Click here to see the prices and rankings for each team in the MLB.

Over the past week, transaction prices show that the Twins and Red Sox are 1 and 2 respectively, followed by the Blue Jays, Mets and Giants. See the screenshot below for the top ten teams in the MLB, and visit the MLB team pages for the complete rankings.

With these pages, fans, writers, bloggers and fans alike can inform themselves on how their team’s ticket sales on the secondary market are doing, and they can relate this data to fan sentiment.

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