MLB Rosters Reimagined: What If Players Stayed With Their Original Teams?
This article imagines what the MLB would look like if players couldn't change teams, and ranks all 30 rosters based on this scenario.

In this thought-provoking exercise, we envision a Major League Baseball landscape where players are stuck with the teams that originally signed them. No trades, no free agency, just the players and the teams they started with. This gives us an idea of which organizations have done the best job of identifying talent. The results are surprising, with some teams looking much better and some looking much worse. Read on to see how your favorite team fares in this alternate reality.