With spring training ending yesterday, it’s time to review attendance in the Grapefruit League and Cactus League. Here’s our listing of spring training attendance ranked by total attendance.
These are numbers coming directly from Major League Baseball. However, this is only one way to rank attendance, as these numbers include all games played by each team, including exhibitions far from Florida and Arizona. Numbers for the Giants, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Padres, Angels, Nationals, Astros, Athletics and Phillies are inflated because games at their home MLB ballparks are counted in these totals; similarly, Toronto benefits from 80,000 or so attendees at Olympic Stadium exhibitions. Florida and Arizona authorities will release numbers based on games played just in those states.
Still, you can get a good idea of how strong a draw each MLB team is in spring training:
| # | Team | League | Total | Games | Average | 2014 |
| 1 | San Francisco Giants | Cactus | 253,477 | 18 | 14,082 | 228,382 |
| 2 | Arizona Diamondbacks | Cactus | 237,009 | 20 | 11,850 | 177,323 |
| 3 | Chicago Cubs | Cactus | 232,790 | 16 | 14,549 | 222,921 |
| 4 | Los Angeles Dodgers | Cactus | 192,054 | 16 | 12,003 | 188,477 |
| 5 | Los Angeles Angels | Cactus | 190,706 | 17 | 11,218 | 152,518 |
| 6 | Texas Rangers | Cactus | 174,962 | 19 | 9,209 | 145,113 |
| 7 | New York Yankees | Grapefruit | 171,715 | 17 | 10,101 | 178,250 |
| 8 | Philadelphia Phillies | Grapefruit | 168,816 | 18 | 9,379 | 146,189 |
| 9 | Toronto Blue Jays | Grapefruit | 165,646 | 17 | 9,744 | 164,180 |
| 10 | Colorado Rockies | Cactus | 154,099 | 16 | 9,631 | 169,662 |
| 11 | Boston Red Sox | Grapefruit | 148,862 | 15 | 9,924 | 147,669 |
| 12 | Oakland Athletics | Cactus | 147,619 | 17 | 8,683 | 78,011 |
| 13 | Detroit Tigers | Grapefruit | 134,377 | 17 | 7,905 | 116,226 |
| 14 | Seattle Mariners | Cactus | 132,519 | 16 | 8,282 | 116,597 |
| 15 | Atlanta Braves | Grapefruit | 127,131 | 18 | 7,063 | 124,104 |
| 16 | Washington Nationals | Grapefruit | 119,847 | 15 | 7,990 | 77,585 |
| 17 | Minnesota Twins | Grapefruit | 118,579 | 16 | 7,411 | 107,806 |
| 18 | Baltimore Orioles | Grapefruit | 112,257 | 15 | 7,484 | 89,449 |
| 19 | San Diego Padres | Cactus | 106,328 | 15 | 7,089 | 81,212 |
| 20 | Pittsburgh Pirates | Grapefruit | 106,038 | 15 | 7,069 | 91,046 |
| 21 | Kansas City Royals | Cactus | 105,271 | 14 | 7,519 | 93,967 |
| 22 | St. Louis Cardinals | Grapefruit | 98,533 | 15 | 6,569 | 96,795 |
| 23 | New York Mets | Grapefruit | 91,329 | 15 | 6,089 | 86,499 |
| 24 | Chicago White Sox | Cactus | 87,294 | 14 | 6,235 | 87,759 |
| 25 | Cleveland Indians | Cactus | 85,874 | 16 | 5,367 | 67,445 |
| 26 | Milwaukee Brewers | Cactus | 85,022 | 15 | 5,668 | 100,415 |
| 27 | Tampa Bay Rays | Grapefruit | 80,406 | 15 | 5,360 | 78,624 |
| 28 | Miami Marlins | Grapefruit | 70,982 | 14 | 5,070 | 82,300 |
| 29 | Houston Astros | Grapefruit | 70,938 | 15 | 4,729 | 44,715 |
| 30 | Cincinnati Reds | Cactus | 64,228 | 15 | 4,282 | 69,478 |