Way-Too-Early 2026 MLB Power Rankings: How Teams Stand Before Winter Meetings

MLB's winter meetings begin this week and almost all the top free agents in baseball remain on the board.

But we should begin to see movement. All-Star sluggers like outfielder Kyle Tucker, third baseman Alex Bregman, outfielder Kyle Schwarber, infielder Bo Bichette, first baseman Pete Alonso, outfielder Cody Bellinger and others will make their decisions, and the rankings below will change. 

But as we wait to see how rosters take shape over the coming weeks and months, here’s where all 30 teams stand right now. 

Finally, something new…ish. Paul DePodesta of "Moneyball" fame returns to MLB as the Rockies’ president of baseball operations after spending the last decade in the Cleveland Browns’ front office. He inherits a Rockies roster that just won 43 games with a minus-424 run differential. Best of luck. 

They’re coming off a third straight 100-loss season, and the next good White Sox team is still a ways away barring something extraordinary. But 2025 went much better than the year prior, and they’re collecting an intriguing group of young talent. There’s at least a building-off point now with Colson Montgomery, Kyle Teel, Shane Smith, Chase Meidroth and company. 

The rebuild didn’t go to plan, prompting a regime change. Now, they have a new president of baseball operations in Paul Toboni and a new manager in 33-year-old Blake Butera. There are some quality building blocks in place in James Wood, CJ Abrams and MacKenzie Gore, but there’s a lot of work to be done to make this team competitive again. Only the Rockies had a higher team ERA in 2025, and the offense wasn’t much better. 

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Since 2018, here’s where All-Star slugger Mike Trout and the Angels have finished in