Minnesota Twins single game tickets for the entire 2023 home schedule went on sale in mid-January and for the first few days the Twins even waived all ticket buying fees. Nice gesture but the fee gouging on ticket sales needs to stop. It is not just the Twins, it is across the board, selling tickets is a part of doing business and it should not be an extra charge thrown on top of already high ticket prices. Maybe the fee waiver for that short span of time was to try to cover the Minnesota Twins embarrassment for their ticket price increase of about 4.29% after a 2022 season in which they finished in third place with a 78-84 and 14 games behind the division winning Cleveland Guardians. Prices in 86 categories of 93 categories across all three tiers went up by anywhere from $1 to $5. The Twins are coming off their lowest attendance since 2001 excluding the the 2020-2021 season impacted by COVID.
Single Game Tickets
Tiered ticket pricing for single game tickets first started in Minnesota back in 2006 and over the years the Twins have had anywhere between two to five ticket tiers. In 2019 the Twins dropped back to three price tiers and that policy remains in place in 2023. Assuming, that all goes as planned there will again be 81 home games in Target Field, 65 of the 81 games (including the Home Opener) have been designated as “select” or middle of the road games while the “value” and “premium” tiers which each had 16 games last season dropped to 8 each in 2023.
The Twins continue to use demand-based ticket pricing that they implemented in 2012 and that means that ticket prices will fluctuate based on a variety of factors but will not drop beneath a floor price that season ticket holders pay. Some people call this variable or dynamic ticket pricing and is used by many sports teams but whatever you call it, it means digging deeper in your pocket for a ticket to the ballgame. Some folks look at it as scalping your own tickets. This process kicked in the day after single game tickets went on sale.
Average ticket prices for the various tiers in 2023
As I mentioned earlier Minnesota Twins single game ticket prices for 2023 went up in most (86 of 93) ticket categories. When all is said and done an average ticket price for 2022 was $38.94 and in 2023 the average ticket price is $40.61, an average increase of $1.67 per ticket or 4.29%. Ticket prices in 2023 went up 4.71% in the “value” category, 4.29% in the “select” category and 4.04% in the “premium” category. If you want to see the details, stop by our Twins Ticket Price History page.