Baseball Teams

Part of what makes major league baseball so exciting is the Major League Baseball teams. Whether it is the team colors, the fun mascots, or cheering on the home team, the sport would be nothing without the major league baseball teams.

If you are wondering what are all the MLB teams, a quick stop at the MLB official site can help. There you will find the complete MLB team list.

In the American League, you have the Baltimore Orioles, the Boston Red Sox, the Chicago White Sox, the Cleveland Indians, the Detroit Tigers, the Kansas City Royals, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the Minnesota Twins, the New York Yankees, the Oakland Athletics, the Seattle Mariners, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, the Texas Rangers, and the Toronto Blue Jays.

In the National League are: the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, the Cincinnati Reds, the Colorado Rockies, the Florida Marlins, the Houston Astros, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Milwaukee Brewers, the New York Mets, the Philadelphia Phillies, the Pittsburg Pirates, the San Diego Padres, the San Francisco Giants, the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Washington Nationals.

For some fans, major league baseball is almost a religion. MLB team apparel, autographed MLB team clothing, MLB team logo desktop wallpaper, and almost anything you can think of, from coffee mugs to foam fingers, sporting the various MLB team logos is available for purchase at gift and pro shops everywhere.

Of course, along with all of the fanfare and excitement of the major league baseball teams, there has long been some criticism of the MLB team names. For instance, some of the major league baseball team names do not make a lot of sense, such as in the Oakland “A’s”. There are few people out there that know what an “Athletic” or an “A” really is. Others, like the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians, spur some debate as to whether they portray a negative image on the Native American community.

Despite any debate, MLB team salaries continue to go up, so the business must be going well. The New York Yankees, with the highest of the MLB team payrolls, is estimated to over $189 million this year in salaries. The payroll for other major league baseball teams is also in the millions of dollars.

Despite the rising costs of tickets and paraphernalia, major league baseball teams set records in attendance each year. And as with anything else, MLB team records are made to be broken.