This is the third annual version of my ranking of all 30 MLB teams by their core of talent. The idea is to rank teams based on who they have under team control through the next two full seasons.
For this exercise, salaries don't matter and age isn't a factor -- but I'll round up on projecting young players (and vice versa against older players) since I'm projecting/ranking teams for a two-plus year period.
To make it easier to see which team has more talent when comparing them, I split players into three tiers: elite (5+ WAR talent, or MVP candidates), plus (3-5 WAR types) and solid (1.