Preview/Prediction

From the Zack Greinke-less Los Angeles Dodgers to the injured and depleted St. Louis Cardinals, it's been a bummer of an offseason for some of the top MLB clubs from 2015.

Scanning the league, the Dodgers and the Cardinals headline the list of October hopefuls who have been far too quiet this winter if they want to keep up with the best of the best.

From the reloaded Chicago Cubs to the restocked San Francisco Giants, there's no shortage of teams who have gone big during the MLB offseason.

Now that the hype machine is in full swing, it's time to look back at the winter and predict which club's offseason activity will translate to regular (and post) season success.

The first step was to scan the entire league to single out the franchises who have moved the most aggressively since the close of the 2016 campaign.

The long, cold winter may still be going strong in some parts of the country, but one wouldn't know it in sunny Arizona and Florida, as pitchers and catchers have officially begun reporting to spring training.

We're still a few weeks from Grapefruit and Cactus League games getting underway, but in the meantime we've decided to take a crack at predicting some various odds and ends surrounding the 2016 spring training action.

These five writers made up our panel of prognosticators:

Spring training has finally arrived, bringing with it the optimism that only a new baseball season can offer. 

Of course that optimism runs higher in some camps than others, with a handful of clubs still scrambling to bolster their rosters before Opening Day arrives. The good news for those teams is that a larger-than-expected number of players are still looking for new homes, increasing their options.

Spring training is about to begin, and so too should your preparations for the upcoming fantasy baseball season.

While most drafts are still a few weeks away, nobody wants to be caught unprepared by relying on the preset rankings supplied by whatever site you use and haphazardly scribbled names on a sticky note that you can barely make out.

The American League has won two of the past three World Series, with the Kansas City Royals defeating the New York Mets in five games last year.

However, the National League is favored to rebound in 2016, led by a team that has not won the World Series since 1908 in the Chicago Cubs at 4-1 odds at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark.

From the Toronto Blue Jays' mini-extension for Josh Donaldson to the New York Mets' pact with Yoenis Cespedes, MLB brain trusts across the league have been swinging some seriously shrewd deals during the 2016 offseason.

While the new contracts for J.D. and La Potencia headline the list of "best" moves, there has also been no shortage of suspect signings and trades.

Before we get to the following list, let's first define what we mean by "best" and "worst" moves.

Thanks to the Toronto Blue Jays' relentless offense and the Chicago Cubs' incredible stable of talented young position players, those two teams are the kings of these 2016 MLB predictions.

The Jays and the Cubs land the title of "team to beat" in the American League East and the National League Central, respectively, which just so happen to be two of the most fearsome divisions in the game.

So long, Super Bowl. Hello, spring training and the dawn of a new Major League Baseball season.

Are you ready?

No, you say? Oh. Well, then. We'd better get you up to speed.

The unofficial end of baseball's offseason is quickly approaching. Pitchers and catchers will begin reporting to camp next week, and soon, we'll have a clear picture of how every team's roster is going to look on Opening Day.

Of course, with a slew of notable free agents still available and both the inevitable injuries and surprise performances that come along with spring training, those pictures are sure to change. In fact, some teams could be ordering new photos before the exhibition games gets underway.