There’s more than one way to build a winning baseball club. You can rely almost exclusively on homegrown talent, like the Guardians are doing this year with 16 players on their projected postseason roster coming from the Draft or international…
Major League Baseball analyzed the roster construction of the 12 teams competing in the 2026 postseason. Teams utilized varying strategies across the amateur draft, international signings, trades, and free agency to assemble their rosters. The Cleveland Guardians feature the most homegrown talent with 16 such players, while the Los Angeles Dodgers derived 24.5 of their 52.0 regular-season WAR directly from free-agent signings.
The Houston Astros reached the postseason by winning the American League West on the final day, relying heavily on trades for stars Yordan Alvarez and Isaac Paredes. Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Rays, Milwaukee Brewers, and Boston Red Sox led the postseason field in relying heavily on acquired trade acquisitions.
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