With so much attention heaped onto the National League this offseason—namely the Padres, Mets and Dodgers—it's been easy to forget about the teams in that other league. The American League is really a bit of a mess. Two of the three division winners (Tampa Bay and Oakland) subtracted key players over the winter, and another playoff team (Cleveland) traded its franchise star.
What are we to make of the AL? Who are the five best teams? SI's MLB experts weigh in:
Tom Verducci
1. Yankees: This ranking assumes New York made smart calls in replacing Masahiro Tanaka and James Paxton with Corey Kluber and Jameson Taillon, two pitchers who combined to throw one inning last year.