From superstar signings to under-the-radar finds: How each of MLB's four remaining teams were built

Every contender is built a little differently. That's certainly the case for this year's MLB final four. We have baseball's biggest revenue team and three clubs that have won with youth and/or efficient spending. We have four franchises with entirely different historical contexts. There are many paths to winning in baseball; here are the ones taken by the last four teams standing in the 2026 season. On the heels of a period during which the Brewers featured a power-based lineup full of strikeout-prone sluggers -- remember the "jumbo infield" of the last decade?