Teams across Major League Baseball are just weeks away from beginning the 2023 season with the same record. What will become of them after that, only the baseball gods know.
What we can do right now is size up where teams are going into the year, for which the categories can't be as simple "good" or "bad." We've instead fit all 30 teams into one of eight tiers that, while not exactly scientific, generally get at where they are heading into 2023:
- 1. Please Excuse Whatever It Is We're Doing
- 2. Please Excuse Our Tanking
- 3.