The MLB offseason doesn’t generally kick into high gear until the calendar turns over to December and the winter meetings get underway, but we’ve had a busy month of November this year.
Jordan Zimmermann was the first marquee free agent to sign, while J.A. Happ, Rich Hill, Chris Iannetta, Alex Avila, A.J. Pierzynski and Franklin Gutierrez are also already off the market.
Meanwhile, the likes of Craig Kimbrel, Andrelton Simmons, Francisco Rodriguez, Joaquin Benoit, Erick Aybar, Nate Karns, Jed Lowrie, Cameron Maybin, Jesse Chavez, Liam Hendriks, Jeremy Hellickson, Leonys Martin, Logan Morrison, Brad Miller, Aaron Hicks and John Ryan Murphy have all moved via trade.
With so much roster shuffling going on already, now seems like the perfect time for the first offseason edition of our MLB power rankings.
The important thing to keep in mind with offseason rankings is that they are not meant to be a prediction for the year ahead.
Instead, they are a look at how teams would stack up with the rosters they currently have if the season were to start today.
Just something worth keeping in mind when considering where your favorite team falls in the following rankings.
The projected rosters at Roster Resource were used as a jumping off point for the projected rosters you’ll see in the following article, though some aspects were tweaked to reflect my own personal opinion.
Bolded players indicate a newcomer to the team, while an (R) indicates a player with rookie eligibility intact entering the 2016 season.