Baseball season is back and teams have already started playing spring training games.While all teams and their fans have hope in March some teams look a lot better than others with less than a month to go before the regular season starts.
To come up with the first power ranking of the season, we took into consideration each team's PECOTA projections (a calculation from Baseball Prospectus that is based on the projected stats for all players), how the teams performed last year, and what they did this offseason.
-1. Los Angeles Dodgers (92 wins last year)-
*PECOTA Projected Wins*: 98
*Las Vegas Wins Over/Under (via Bovada.lv)*: 92.5
*Consensus Offseason Grade*: B
*Key Additions*: 2B Alexander Guerrero, SP Dan Haren
*Key Losses*: SP Ricky Nolasco, 2B Mark Ellis-2. St. Louis Cardinals (97 wins last year)-
*PECOTA Projected Wins*: 88
*Las Vegas Wins Over/Under*: 90.5
*Consensus Offseason Grade*: A
*Key Additions*: SS Jhonny Peralta, 2B Mark Ellis
*Key Losses*: OF Carlos Beltran, RP Edward Mujica, RP John Axford-3. Detroit Tigers (93 wins last year)-
*PECOTA Projected Wins*: 88
*Las Vegas Wins Over/Under*: 89.5
*Consensus Offseason Grade*: B
*Key Additions*: RP Joe Nathan, OF Rajai Davis
*Key Losses*: SS Jhonny Peralta, SP Doug Fister, 2B Omar Infante, RP Joaquin Benoit
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