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MLB Franchises on the Verge of Becoming Perennial Contenders

There's no mistaking the powers that be in Major League Baseball. The Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals have done a lot of winning recently, and now the Chicago Cubs, New York Mets and Houston Astros look ready to follow their fine examples.

Eh, but enough about them. Let's act like we can read the future and pinpoint the teams that are on the verge of breaking into the Annual Contenders Club.

To do so, we'll disregard teams that made the playoffs in 2015 and zero in on clubs that have enough talent to break through sometime within the next, say, three years. And who, once they do break through, figure to be sticking around for a while.

By my reckoning, that gives us a list of six teams to to discuss. We'll do that in alphabetical order, starting with...

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