2014 MLB Preview

The 2014 Major League Baseball season gets going this week. As spring training has come to a close, rosters, lineups, and rotations are being set. Below is a look at where we rank each team as an infield unit, an outfield unit, starting rotation, and relief pitching. The biggest impact player in each unit is listed in parenthesis.

Infield
1. St. Louis (Matt Carpenter)
2. Arizona (Paul Goldschmidt)
3. Seattle (Robinson Cano)
4. Texas (Adrian Beltre)
5. Baltimore (Chris Davis)
6. Cleveland (Jason Kipnis)
7. Washington (Ian Desmond)
8. Atlanta (Freddie Freeman)
9. Milwaukee (Jean Segura)
10. Boston (Dustin Pedroia)
11. Tampa Bay (Evan Longoria)
12. Oakland (Josh Donaldson)
13. Colorado (Troy Tulowitzki)
14. NY Mets (David Wright)
15. Toronto (Edwin Encarnacion)
16. Kansas City (Eric Hosmer)
17. San Diego (Chase Headley)
18. Cincinnati (Joey Votto)
19. San Francisco (Buster Posey)
20. Detroit (Miguel Cabrera)
21. Houston (Jose Altuve)
22. Philadelphia (Chase Utley)
23. LA Angels (Albert Pujols)
24. NY Yankees (Brian McCann)
25. LA Dodgers (Hanley Ramirez)
26. Chicago Cubs (Starlin Castro)
27. Minnesota (Joe Mauer)
28. Chicago Sox (Alexei Ramirez)
29. Pittsburgh (Pedro Alvarez)
30. Miami (Jarrod Saltalamacchia)

Outfield
1. Milwaukee (Ryan Braun)
2. NY Yankees (Jacoby Ellsbury)
3. Tampa Bay (Wil Myers)
4. LA Angels (Mike Trout)
5. Texas (Shin-Soo Choo)
6. Atlanta (Justin Upton)
7. LA Dodgers (Yasiel Puig)
8. Washington (Bryce Harper)
9. Baltimore (Adam Jones)
10. St. Louis (Matt Holliday)
11. Colorado (Carlos Gonzalez)
12. Oakland (Yoenis Cespedes)
13. Arizona (Martin Prado)
14. Pittsburgh (Andrew McCutchen)
15. Miami (Giancarlo Stanton)
16. San Francisco (Hunter Pence)
17. Philadelphia (Dominic Brown)
18. Cincinnati (Jay Bruce)
19. Toronto (Jose Bautista)
20. Detroit (Austin Jackson)
21. Houston (George Springer)
22. Chicago Sox (Adam Eaton)
23. Cleveland (Michael Bourn)
24. Kansas City (Alex Gordon)
25. Boston (Daniel Nava)
26. NY Mets (Curtis Grandeerson)
27. Minnesota (Josh Willingham)
28. San Diego (Will Venable)
29. Seattle (Dustin Ackley)
30. Chicago Cubs (Nate Schierholtz)

Starting Pitching
1. St. Louis (Adam Wainwright)
2. Washington (Stephen Strasburg)
3. Cincinnati (Johnny Cueto)
4. Detroit (Justin Verlander)
5. Tampa Bay (David Price)
6. LA Dodgers (Clayton Kershaw)
7. Atlanta (Julio Teheran)
8. San Francisco (Matt Cain)
9. Seattle (Felix Hernandez)
10. Philadelphia (Cliff Lee)
11. NY Yankees (CC Sabathia)
12. Boston (Jon Lester)
13. LA Angels (Jared Weaver)
14. Oakland (Sonny Gray)
15. Pittsburgh (Gerrit Cole)
16. Cleveland (Justin Masterson)
17. Milwaukee (Matt Garza)
18. Texas (Yu Darvish)
19. Chicago Sox (Chris Sale)
20. Kansas City (James Shields)
21. San Diego (Josh Johnson)
22. NY Mets (Zack Wheeler)
23. Baltimore (Ubaldo Jimenez)
24. Miami (Jose Fernandez)
25. Chicago Cubs (Jeff Samardiza)
26. Toronto (RA Dickey)
27. Arizona (Wade Miley)
28. Minnesota (Ricky Nolasco)
29. Houston (Jarred Cosart)
30. Colorado (Brett Anderson)

Relief Piching
1. Atlanta (Craig Kimbrel)
2. Detroit (Joe Nathan)
3. St. Louis (Trevor Rosenthal)
4. LA Angels (Ernesto Frieri)
5. Kansas City (Greg Holland)
6. San Diego (Huston Street)
7. LA Dodgers (Kenley Jansen)
8. Boston (Koji Uehara)
9. Pittsburgh (Jason Grilli)
10. San Francisco (Sergio Romo)
11. Minnesota (Glen Perkins)
12. NY Yankees (David Robertson)
13. Philadelphia (Johnathan Papelbon)
14. Tampa Bay (Grant Balfour)
15. Arizona (Addison Reed)
16. Washington (Rafael Soriano)
17. Miami (Steve Cishek)
18. Oakland (Jim Johnson)
19. Toronto (Casey Jansen)
20. Seattle (Fernando Rodney)
21. Colorado (LaTroy Hopkins)
22. Cleveland (John Axford)
23. Milwaukee (Jim Henderson)
24. Chicago Sox (Nate Jones)
25. Baltimore (Tommy Hunter)
26. Cincinnati (Aroldis Chapman)
27. Texas (Neftali Perez)
28. NY Mets (Bobby Parnell)
29. Chicago Cubs (Jose Veras)
30. Houston (Jesse Crain)