If you’re of a certain age, you may remember a time when the Atlanta Braves were called America’s Team. It’s a nickname given to the franchise by then-owner Ted Turner, whose cable superstation aired nearly every game across the country.
For baseball fans in the 80s, if you wanted to watch baseball, you had the Braves on TBS, the Chicago Cubs on WGN and the national game of the week. That led to a lot of people from across the country becoming Braves fans, even when the team struggled for most of those years.
Now, though, technology allows baseball fans to watch their favorite team’s games, even if they live outside of their team’s broadcast territory. How do the Braves stack up against other MLB teams in terms of being easy to cheer for? Especially when there's no Georgia sports betting to get in on the action?
At BetGeorgia.com, we came up with a weighted rating system to determine which team is the best to become a fan of this season. To accomplish this, we averaged out the rankings of each team in four separate categories: 2025 World Series Champion Odds (from DraftKings Sportsbook), 2024 National TV Appearances (from ESPN), 2024 Year-End Farm System Rankings (from Bleacher Report) and 2025 MLB Stadium Rankings (from USA Today).
Rank | Team | 2025 Odds Ranking | TV Ranking | Farm System Ranking | Stadium Ranking | Overall Average |
1 | Los Angeles Dodgers | 1 | T-2 | 8 | 7 | 4.5 |
2 | Chicago Cubs | T-13 | T-2 | 4 | 3 | 5.5 |
3 | Boston Red Sox | 9 | T-9 | 3 | 5 | 6.5 |
4 | Seattle Mariners | T-10 | T-16 | 1 | 9 | 9.0 |
5 | Atlanta Braves | 2 | T-2 | 18 | 16 | 9.5 |
6 | New York Mets | 4 | T-9 | 15 | 11 | 9.75 |
T-7 | Baltimore Orioles | T-6 | T-9 | 23 | 4 | 10.5 |
T-7 | Philadelphia Phillies | 5 | T-7 | 17 | 13 | 10.5 |
9 | Texas Rangers | T-10 | T-5 | 10 | 22 | 11.75 |
10 | Houston Astros | T-6 | T-5 | 24 | 15 | 12.5 |
T-11 | Cleveland Guardians | T-10 | T-19 | 5 | 19 | 13.25 |
T-11 | New York Yankees | 3 | 1 | 29 | 20 | 13.25 |
T-13 | Detroit Tigers | T-13 | 23 | 6 | 14 | 14.0 |
T-13 | San Diego Padres | 8 | T-14 | 28 | 6 | 14.0 |
15 | Minnesota Twins | T-13 | T-16 | 22 | 10 | 15.25 |
16 | St. Louis Cardinals | T-19 | T-7 | 19 | 17 | 15.5 |
17 | San Francisco Giants | 23 | T-9 | 30 | 2 | 16 |
18 | Pittsburgh Pirates | 24 | T-26 | 14 | 1 | 16.25 |
19 | Milwaukee Brewers | T-17 | T-16 | 9 | 24 | 16.5 |
20 | Tampa Bay Rays | T-19 | T-19 | 2 | 29 | 17.25 |
21 | Cincinnati Reds | T-19 | T-9 | 16 | 26 | 17.5 |
22 | Colorado Rockies | T-29 | T-26 | 11 | 8 | 18.5 |
23 | Kansas City Royals | T-17 | 24 | 25 | 12 | 19.5 |
24 | Arizona Diamondbacks | T-13 | T-14 | 26 | 27 | 20.0 |
T-25 | Chicago White Sox | T-29 | T-19 | 13 | 28 | 22.25 |
T-25 | Miami Marlins | T-27 | T-24 | 20 | 18 | 22.25 |
T-27 | Los Angeles Angels | T-27 | T-19 | 21 | 23 | 22.5 |
T-27 | Oakland Athletics | T-25 | T-28 | 7 | 30 | 22.5 |
T-27 | Washington Nationals | T-25 | T-28 | 12 | 25 | 22.5 |
30 | Toronto Blue Jays | 22 | T-28 | 27 | 21 | 24.5 |
This list is exclusive to BetGeorgia.com.
As it turns out, few teams have been as successful as the Braves have been in recent years. They’ve made the playoffs each season since 2018, and only the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros sport better records over that span.
If there can be a knock on Atlanta, it’s the lack of postseason success outside of the 2021 World Series title. That said, the MLB playoffs are typically a crapshoot. You play 162 games because you need that many to differentiate the good teams from the bad. Still, if you paired a 90-72 team with a 70-92 team over seven games, the team with the losing record still has a halfway decent chance to win four.
The Braves enter the 2025 season as the second choice on DraftKings World Series futures board. Oddsmakers there give Atlanta odds of +800 to win its fifth title in franchise history and third since moving to Georgia 59 years ago.
Sports betting unfortunately is not yet legal in Georgia, though it is available in Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida. In addition to giving you analysis on your favorite sports teams, BetGeorgia will also keep you in the loop on what’s happening with efforts to legalize GA sports betting apps.
USA Today photo by Brett Davis.
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