MLB: 5 Most Disappointing Teams This Season

Which MLB teams are falling short of preseason expectations? Here are the five most disappointing clubs thus far in 2016.

Before every MLB season experts and fans alike try their best to determine which teams will make their mark on the coming season. They base their opinions on free agency additions, trade additions, budding prospects and the previous season. Usually fans, and especially the experts, are able to easily discern which teams will compete for a playoff spot and which teams will be out of the picture by June or July. However, each year there is a select group of teams that don’t live up to the hype built around them during the offseason.

Whether it be injuries or simply lack of execution, there are disappointing teams in every single season. Disappointing teams are not all the same though. Some are disappointing because they were expected to win the division or be in a playoff position, but have failed to put themselves in that position at this point in the season. Others are disappointing because they had a good start to the season, but have teetered off and suddenly look like last place teams.

Disappointing teams come from all around the league and have disappointed fans for many different reasons. Regardless of why fans are disappointed, the key point is that the teams on this list have not lived up to the potential many believed they had either before the beginning of the season or after the first month of the season.

One thing to keep in mind, however, is that it is only June. The teams on this list are by no means finished or out of it. The season is 162 games for a reason. These teams have been disappointing, but some of them still have a chance to turn it around and head toward being the teams everyone expected them to be.

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