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The following rankings are based off of ESPN.com mock draft rankings for each position. The assigned dollar values for all of a team's players were added up to figure out each team's overall worth
Overall Rankings:

1. New York Yankees- $183
2. Philadelphia Phillies- $169
3. Boston Red Sox- $157
4. Tampa Bay Rays- $138
5. Arizona Diamondbacks- $126
6. Texas Rangers- $114
7. Seattle Mariners- $111
8. St. Louis Cardinals- $107
9. L.A. Dodgers- $102
10. New York Mets- $100
11. Florida Marlins- $93
12. Atlanta Braves- $90
13. L.A. Angels- $89
14. Colorado Rockies- $87
15. Milwaukee Brewers- $86
16. Chicago White Sox- $84
17. Minnesota Twins- $83
18. Detroit Tigers- $81
19. Baltimore Orioles- $75
20. Houston Astros- $75
21. San Francisco Giants- $71
22. Cincinnati Reds- $60
23. Cleveland Indians- $59
24. Kansas City Royals- $58
25. Chicago Cubs- $54
26. Washington Nations- $43
27. San Diego Padres- $40
28. Toronto Blue Jays- $36
29. Oakland Athletics- $31
30. Pittsburgh Pirates- $31

Notes:

• Don't sleep on the Diamondbacks in the NL West, they're loaded with talent
• The so called "talent-rich" cubs have almost none.
• It's easy to see why the AL Central is so hotly contested, the White Sox, Tigers and Twins are all within $3 of each other.
• Mariano Rivera is worth $15. Without him, the Yankees rank second to the Phillies by exactly $1.
• The Phillies are the best team in the NL by a large margin...right now. The Diamondbacks stars are all in their low to mid-twenties. The Phillies window is closing.
• Albert Pujols, Hanley Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez are each separately worth equal or more than two teams.

Top 5 Infields:

1. New York Yankees- $106
2. Philadelphia Phillies- $77
3. Boston Red Sox- $63
4. Tampa Bay Rays- $63
5. Arizona Diamondbacks/Texas Rangers- $56

Bottom 5 Infields:

1. Houston Astros- $14
2. Toronto Blue Jays- $14
3. L.A. Dodgers- $9
4. Pittsburgh Pirates- $7
5. Oakland Athletics- $2

• Anyone else surprised to see the Dodgers ranked in the bottom 5?
• The Yankees infield, comprising of 2 future hall of famers (Rodriguez and Jeter), someone with a fighting chance (Posada), and two All-Stars who, while young, have an outside chance at the Hall of Fame someday (Teixeira and Cano.), is far and away the best in the league, and quite likely one of the best of all time.
• The Yankees infield would rank 9th among teams.

Top 5 Outfields:

1. L.A. Dodgers- $58
2. Tampa Bay Rays- $45
3. Philadelphia Phillies- $44
4. Houston Astros- $40
5. Baltimore Orioles- $39

Bottom 5 Outfields:

1. Chicago Cubs- $8
2. Oakland Athletics- $7
3. San Diego Padres- $2
4. San Francisco Giants- $1
5. Kansas City Royals- $0

• Astros and Orioles make a surprising cameo in the top 5
• The Yankees were ranked 23. Seems odd, considering last year they had Damon out there last year
• It looks like the Giants offense is yet again going to be historically awful.

Top 5 Pitching Staffs (Closer included):

1. Boston Red Sox- $62
2. New York Yankees- $60
3. San Francisco Giants- $51
4. Philadelphia Phillies- $48
5. Seattle Mariners- $47

Bottom 5 Pitching Staffs:

1. Baltimore Orioles- $5
2. Cleveland Indians- $4
3. Pittsburgh Pirates- $4
4. Toronto Blue Jays- $1
5. Washington Nationals- $1

• Toronto's Rankings seem odd. Seems like only a few years ago they had loads of young talent. Keep in mind that Shaun Marcum is coming off Tommy John, but the year before had a 3.39 ERA in 151 innings. And then there's Ricky Romero.
• The Red Sox are the only team that had 5 pitchers with a price tag. 4 other teams had 4, and 7 more had 3.
• Four teams did not have a single starter worth money. Those 4 teams did have closers though.
• The Athletics Closer is worth $12 of their $31

Divisional Rankings (With the per team average in parenthesis):
AL: 1226 (87.57) NL: 1334 (83.375)

1. AL East- $589 ($117.8)
2. NL East- $495 ($99)
3. NL West- $426 ($85.2)
4. NL Central- $413 ($68.83)
5. AL Central- $365 ($73)
6. Al West- $345 ($86.25

• No surprises here. Except maybe the much maligned NL west suddenly being not so bad.
• NL Central has 6 teams, yet can't even break the top 3.

Closing Thoughts:

• At the moment, it looks unlikely that any team can eclipse the Phillies in the NL. Arizona seems like the dark horse to do so however.
• The AL East will be another dog-fight, but Tamba Bay looks like it will have the short stick, in large part due to pitching.
• The two central divisions are the weakest by far. NL Central especially, with the Cardinals posed to take the division with ease.
• The Angels will be thwarted by a pitching staff that severely lacks an Ace. This will be beaten into everyone's head for the entire season. The Mariners, with excellent pitching, appear to have an edge there.
• The Central division as always is up for grabs. Look for the Twins to capture it in the first season of their new stadium.