Fangraphs: Team Ownership Ratings, By the Community

[OakleyDokely]

Just how good is a particular owner or ownership group, relative to the rest? It’s just about impossible to say. As fans, what we see is pretty well removed from what goes on at the ownership level, so it’s not like those executives can be evaluated like a pitcher with a sub-3 FIP. So we don’t know that much about who’s good or bad, really. But that never stands in the way of opinions. Oh, people have opinions, and those opinions aren’t based on nothing. A few days ago, I asked you all for your thoughts on your teams’ owners. What follows is the resulting information, based on many thousands of votes from presumably many thousands of participants.

The polls were simple. After each prompt, you could select from two positive opinions, two negative opinions, and one middle-of-the-road opinion. People don’t usually compare ownership groups, since situations are so different, but now we can at least try to do that, with numerical data. Of course, what you see won’t be infallible evaluations. This is opinion-polling, but I think it’s just interesting to see what people think, even if it turns out plenty of people are wrong. I love what crowd-sourcing can indicate, and I love that we get to do it. Thanks again for all your help

Team Ownership Ratings

Team Very bad Pretty bad Average Pretty good Very good Rating
Giants 3% 1% 5% 31% 60% 4.44
Cubs 2% 2% 7% 30% 58% 4.39
Cardinals 6% 1% 7% 28% 57% 4.29
Dodgers 5% 5% 8% 24% 58% 4.26
Red Sox 5% 6% 11% 38% 41% 4.04
Tigers 4% 7% 14% 38% 37% 3.97
Rangers 3% 3% 25% 55% 14% 3.73
Astros 2% 6% 28% 48% 17% 3.73
Yankees 7% 12% 17% 36% 27% 3.63
Royals 5% 10% 27% 38% 21% 3.61
Pirates 5% 12% 24% 44% 15% 3.52
Nationals 5% 14% 36% 38% 7% 3.28
Rays 12% 25% 27% 24% 13% 3.02
Brewers 9% 25% 40% 18% 7% 2.89
Twins 8% 23% 51% 17% 1% 2.80
Indians 8% 26% 49% 15% 2% 2.77
Phillies 17% 25% 30% 24% 4% 2.75
White Sox 10% 30% 42% 15% 3% 2.71
Braves 15% 28% 35% 16% 5% 2.68
Diamondbacks 17% 27% 35% 15% 6% 2.65
Angels 15% 34% 27% 19% 5% 2.65
Athletics 18% 31% 30% 15% 6% 2.61
Mariners 13% 34% 39% 10% 3% 2.57
Padres 14% 36% 40% 10% 0% 2.46
Orioles 15% 36% 36% 11% 1% 2.46
Blue Jays 19% 34% 32% 13% 2% 2.44
Reds 12% 40% 40% 7% 1% 2.44
Rockies 43% 38% 17% 2% 1% 1.81
Mets 56% 27% 11% 6% 1% 1.69
Marlins 89% 8% 1% 1% 1% 1.19

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[JaysRule15]

Not a surprise to see Rogers near the bottom of the list. They took a huge PR hit after AA left and lost pretty much all of the goodwill the team had built up. If AA is still around as GM (or is made President), I bet Rogers ranks in the top half.

[The_Hater]

Not a surprise to see Rogers near the bottom of the list. They took a huge PR hit after AA left and lost pretty much all of the goodwill the team had built up. If AA is still around as GM (or is made President), I bet Rogers ranks in the top half.

I'm not sure bringing AA back would have changed the ranking very much as most of the same corporate ownership issues would still exist including the lower payroll forcing some tough roster decisions to be made and the turf not being replaced. Now had Rogers increased the payroll significantly, enough to re-sign Price or a few other significant free agents that probably would have helped the ranking quite a bit.

[LLJ]

Rogers was hated when AA was here, and hated even more now that AA is gone. That said, I think the casuals probably had a more favorable view of Rogers prior to the offseason. It was mostly diehards that hated Rogers all along.