Dodgers, Yankees Overtake Astros as Most Hated MLB Team, According to Study

Baseball Twitter must have a soft spot for Dusty Baker because the Houston Astros are no longer MLB’s most hated franchise.  

After carrying the torch for Twitter’s most despised team the last few years, the Astros have slipped to third in the rankings, according to a recent social media survey. Unsurprisingly, the two teams that leapfrogged Houston are the Dodgers and Yankees.

BetOnline.ag collected more than 100,000 “negative sentiment” tweets, hashtags and direct keyword phrases for every MLB club over the last 60 days. As an example, "I hate the Yankees," "Yankees suck," "screw the Yankees," "Yankees are garbage," "Yankees are overrated," "Yankees are awful" and “Yankees are horrible" were used in the sampling.

It then tallied up all of those tweets, hashtags and direct keyword phrases to discover which team is the most dislike in all of baseball. The Top 10 most disliked team based on negative Twitter sentiment are as follows (based on negative tweets):

1. Los Angeles Dodgers - 9016

2. New York Yankees - 8712

3. Houston Astros - 7658

4. New York Mets - 6326

5. Atlanta Braves - 5822

6. St. Louis Cardinals - 4692

7. Philadelphia Phillies - 4552

8. Boston Red Sox - 4270

9. San Diego Padres - 4124

10. Kansas City Royals - 3642

The Dodgers took the top spot this year, and this is also when excluding any tweets about the recent Pride Night controversy involving the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence."

The Arizona Diamondbacks were the "least hated" as only 846 negative tweets were tracked.

- BetOnline News Wire