Race for the Ring: Every MLB Team’s Chance of Winning It All in the Near Future
February 26, 2011 by Joe Iannello
Filed under Fan News
Major League Baseball is in the air. All 30 teams have flocked to a warm weather site with the same goal in mind: Win a ring.
Whether it’s veterans of the league imparting as much knowledge as they can on the young guns, or legends from the past returning to the place that they loved, spring training is a beneficial and necessary time for baseball players.
Baseball is the one major sport in America where spending of loads of money can directly impact the product that you put onto the field. There is no salary cap, just a luxury tax that a team can choose to pay if they so dare.
Quite simply, some teams are contenders while most are pretenders.
There are the teams in baseball who spend mind-numbing amounts of money to keep or acquire top-flight talent and there are many other teams (owners) who are just happy that Bud Selig is so fond of revenue sharing.
Let’s get right to it, here are each team’s chances of winning a World Series in the next three years.