This won't shock you if you have last year's standings memorized, but the premium talent in baseball isn't exactly spread evenly across the sport. The Yankees had nine players crack the MLB Rank top 100, the Astros had seven (including six in the top 40) as did the Red Sox, and eight other teams had at least five. Meanwhile, four teams had no players in the top 100 and eight others had just one. That helps explain why we had three 100-win teams and three 100-loss teams.
I don't know if this talent dispersion is a historical anomaly, but I do know the level of talent is unbelievably high these days.