From the reloaded Chicago Cubs to the restocked San Francisco Giants, there’s no shortage of teams that 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-season (and playoff) success.
The first step was to scan the majors to single out the franchises that moved the most aggressively since the close of the 2015 campaign.
The next step was to consider whether these teams successfully addressed their most pressing issues from last year, how fierce the landscape of their respective divisions figures to be and whether they can count on any holdovers turning in bounce-back seasons after lackluster ones in 2015.
All six of the “rebuilt” clubs made important improvements to their rosters, and in the case of the Cubs, that roster was already ridiculously good.