Preview/Prediction

Another week. Another round of questions about Yoenis Cespedes, Chris Davis and Justin Upton—baseball's unfortunate free-agent trio.

As Week 10 of the 2015-16 MLB offseason draws to a close, the future remains murky for those prime-time mashers who are still hanging out in a winter purgatory. The good news for one of those guys (and the bad news for another) is that there's a new five-year offer to report.

For many players already locked into roster spots, spring training is a time to shake off the rust and gear up for the upcoming grind of a 162-game season.

However, for those on the roster bubble, it's a chance to make an impression that could prove to be the difference between breaking camp on the big league roster and heading back to the minors to start the year.

Most roster decisions boil down to deciding on a final bench piece or relief arm to round out the bullpen, but there are always at least a handful of legitimate position battles at key spots.

Thanks to the folks over at MLB.com's Cut 4, we know that it's a fact that Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers had better odds of breaking Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak—and that the Mets' Bartolo Colon had better odds of hitting an inside-the-park home run—than any of us had of winning Wednesday's $1.6 billion

Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion of the Toronto Blue Jays are not only two of the most dangerous hitters in the American League, but they are also two of the headliners of the 2017 MLB free-agent class.

"Joey Bats" is the top right fielder and Encarnacion is the scariest designated hitter, but who are the prime-time guys at all the other spots?

Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson isn't just the reigning American League MVP—he's also a man who deserves to get paid.

Looking around the league, there are plenty of MLB stars like Donaldson whose current employers should be racing to lock them up.

The 10 big leaguers who make this list are all arbitration eligible, which means they are one to three seasons away from hitting the free-agent front.

From the arrival of Zack Greinke at Chase Field to the landing of David Price at Fenway Park, it has been an ambitious offseason for big spenders like the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Boston Red Sox.

The question now becomes whether that offseason ambition will transform into wins on the field in 2016. As we get set for the latest round of "contender" or "pretender," let's begin by laying out the ground rules.

With so many impact MLB free agents still available—a group that includes Yoenis Cespdes, Wei-Yin Chen, Chris Davis, Yovani Gallardo and Justin Upton—a list of the 10 free agents set to improve their new club the most figures to look drastically different a month from now.

The amount of unsigned talent speaks to the depth of this offseason's free-agent class, as the players that found their way onto this list will each have a major impact on their new clubs in 2016.

With a little over a month to go until the start of spring training, we've reached the point of the offseason where things are typically kind of boring.

There's nothing typical about this offseason, though. It started with maybe the deepest class of free agents in MLB history, and a handful of them are still looking for work. There are also some notable trade chips who haven't been dealt yet. In all, quite a few impact players are still in the mix for new homes.

So, let's try to find their new homes for them. 

There was a time when it was tough for young players to rise to All-Star status, but that time is long gone. The 2015 season saw a record 20 players ages 25 and under earn All-Star nods, and it doesn't take much to guess there's more where that came from.

So that's what we're going to do.

With the 2016 season fast approaching, let's look at eight prospects who figure to be All-Stars sometime in the next three years. These aren't the only prospects who have All-Star potential, mind you, but they look like the best bets based on three things:

There's still a year to go before MLB will announce the 2017 Baseball Hall of Fame class, but it wouldn't be the worst idea for Tim Raines, Jeff Bagwell, Trevor Hoffman and Vladimir Guerrero to start looking into travel arrangements in upstate New York.

After we dug through the numbers—both advanced and otherwise—and examined the recent voting trends, those are the four former big leaguers who have the best odds of making it to the Hall in 2017.