Who's the Most Hated Team in Baseball?

The answer may surprise you. It's not the New York Yankees, which really surprises me because no one like the Yankees unless your a Yankees fan. It's not the Red Sox or the Cubs. It's the Cleveland Indian. Once again, Cleveland's baseball team is receiving negative press after a study was done to find the most disliked team.

The study was done using Neislon Scale, scoring teams from -5 to 5. The Scale is made by using Internet algorithms built by Nielsen Co. that analyzes how people feel about certain things. This service typically uses various keywords to find out whether people have positive, negative or neutral reactions to different brands and products.

So how was Cleveland voted the worst? In my opinion, their score was hurt two ways. The first is, the Indian's are terrible. So anything written by non-Cleveland fans is going to be negative. Secondly, Indian's fans are so frustrated with their team, they aren't saying anything positive. In fact, they are probably joining in on the bashing of the team. So they have lots of criticism to bring their score down, but nothing positive to raise it up.

So we know Cleveland is the most hated team in baseball...but who else scored low. Indians had a rating of 0.9, followed by the Boston Red Sox (1.1), Cincinnati Reds (1.1) and the Houston Astros (1.8). The most popular teams are the San Francisco Giants with a score of 4.5 followed closely by the Oakland A's with 4.2.