Monday, April 1, 2013

2013 MLB Preview

The 2013 Major League Baseball season got underway last night. As spring training comes to an end, teams are filling out roster spots, and setting lineups and rotations in preparation for the marathon season. Below is a look at where each team ranks as an infield unit, outfield unit, starting pitching, and relief pitching. The biggest impact player in each unit is listed in parenthesis.

Infield
1. Texas (Elvis Andrus)
2. Arizona (Aaron Hill)
3. Detroit (Prince Fielder)
4. Washington (Ryan Zimmerman)
5. Cincinnati (Joey Votto)
6. Toronto (Jose Reyes)
7. Kansas City (Billy Butler)
8. Cleveland (Asdrubal Cabrera)
9. Philadelphia (Ryan Howard)
10. NY Yankees (Robinson Cano)
11. LA Angels (Albert Pujols)
12. San Francisco (Buster Posey)
13. St. Louis (Allen Craig)
14. Boston (Dustin Pedroia)
15. Milwaukee (Aramis Ramirez)
16. Baltimore (Manny Machado)
17. Atlanta (Dan Uggla)
18. LA Dodgers (Hanley Ramirez)
19. NY Mets (David Wright)
20. Colorado (Troy Tulowitzki)
21. San Diego (Chase Headley)
22. Seattle (Kendrys Morales)
23. Chicago Sox (Paul Konerko)
24. Tampa Bay (Evan Longoria)
25. Chicago Cubs (Starlin Castro)
26. Pittsburgh (Neil Walker)
27. Minnesota (Joe Mauer)
28. Houston (Jose Altuve)
29. Oakland (Brandon Moss)
30. Miami (Placido Polanco)

Outfield
1. LA Angels (Mike Trout)
2. Atlanta (Justin Upton)
3. St. Louis (Carlos Beltran)
4. LA Dodgers (Matt Kemp)
5. Milwaukee (Ryan Braun)
6. Toronto (Jose Bautista)
7. NY Yankees (Curtis Granderson)
8. Tampa Bay (Ben Zobrist)
9. Cincinnati (Jay Bruce)
10. Colorado (Carlos Gonzalez)
11. Baltimore (Adam Jones)
12. Chicago Sox (Alejandro De Aza)
13. Oakland (Yoenis Cespedes)
14. Boston (Jacoby Ellsbury)
15. Cleveland (Michael Bourn)
16. Pittsburgh (Andrew McCutchen)
17. Miami (Giancarlo Stanton)
18. Detroit (Austin Jackson)
19. Arizona (Cody Ross)
20. Washington (Bryce Harper)
21. San Francisco (Hunter Pence)
22. Kansas City (Alex Gordon)
23. Texas (Nelson Cruz)
24. Minnesota (Josh Willingham)
25. Seattle (Mike Morse)
26. Philadelphia (Delmon Young)
27. San Diego (Carlos Quentin)
28. Chicago Cubs (Alfonso Soriano)
29. Houston (Justin Maxwell)
30. NY Mets (Lucas Duda)

Starting Pitching
1. Washington (Stephen Strasburg)
2. Detroit (Justin Verlander)
3. San Francisco (Matt Cain)
4. Philadelphia (Cole Hamels)
5. LA Dodgers (Clayton Kershaw)
6. Toronto (RA Dickey)
7. Tampa Bay (David Price)
8. NY Yankees (CC Sabathia)
9. Cincinnati (Johnny Cueto)
10. LA Angels (Jared Weaver)
11. St. Louis (Adam Wainwright)
12. Texas (Yu Darvish)
13. Arizona (Ian Kennedy)
14. Atlanta (Tim Hudson)
15. Oakland (Brett Anderson)
16. Chicago Sox (Chris Sale)
17. Chicago Cubs (Jeff Samardzija)
18. Seattle (Felix Hernandez)
19. Boston (Jon Lester)
20. Milwaukee (Yovani Gallardo)
21. Pittsburgh (AJ Burnett)
22. NY Mets (John Niese)
23. Kansas City (James Shields)
24. Baltimore (Jason Hammel)
25. Cleveland (Justin Masterson)
26. Houston (Lucas Harrell)
27. Miami (Ricky Nolasco)
28. Minnesota (Vance Worley)
29. San Diego (Edinson Volquez)
30. Colorado (Jhoulys Chacin)

Relief Pitching
1. Atlanta (Craig Kimbrel)
2. Cincinnati (Aroldis Chapman)
3. Texas (Joe Nathan)
4. LA Angels (Ryan Madson)
5. St. Louis (Jason Motte)
6. Philadelphia (Jonathan Papelbon)
7. Baltimore (Jim Johnson)
8. Washington (Rafael Soriano)
9. Arizona (JJ Putz)
10. NY Yankees (Mariano Rivera)
11. Tampa Bay (Fernando Rodney)
12. Boston (Joel Hanrahan)
13. Chicago Sox (Addison Reed)
14. Kansas City (Greg Holland)
15. San Francisco (Sergio Romo)
16. LA Dodgers (Kenley Jansen)
17. Seattle (Tom Wilhelmsen)
18. Milwaukee (John Axford)
19. Cleveland (Chris Perez)
20. Colorado (Rafael Betancourt)
21. San Diego (Huston Street)
22. Oakland (Grant Balfour)
23. Chicago Cubs (Kyuji Fujikawa)
24. Miami (Steve Cishek)
25. Pittsburgh (Jason Grilli)
26. Toronto (Casey Janssen)
27. Minnesota (Glen Perkins)
28. Detroit (Phil Coke)
29. NY Mets (Bobby Parnell)
30. Houston (Jose Veras)

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