Before the 2016 MLB season officially gets underway next week and we roll out one last version of our official preseason power rankings, we've decided to stack up all 30 teams a bit differently in the article that follows.
We've decided to focus on three key areas and how each team ranks compared to the rest of the league: offense, starting pitching and relief pitching.
All 30 teams were ranked in those three areas, and then a cumulative average of those three rankings was calculated to determine where they stacked up to the other 29 teams.
Now, obviously there is more to winning games than just those three areas.
Team chemistry, coaching, defense, baserunning, overall organizational depth and eventual prospect arrivals will all make a significant impact on how a team performs this coming season.
However, being strong in those three key areas is usually a good sign a team will at least be competitive, so think of this exercise as a way of sort of separating the contenders from the pretenders.
Note: In the case of a tie in cumulative average, which did happen more than once, the team with the highest rank in their lowest category was given the higher spot in the rankings. The logic being that you never want one area to be a major weakness.
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