Ranking Every MLB Team by Its All-Time Starting Lineup | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

It's a simple question, but finding an answer was decidedly more difficult.

First things first, some ground rules are needed for constructing the all-time lineups:

While WAR is a statistic that will be featured prominently in this article, it was not the end-all, be-all statistic in determining who made the all-time lineup. Rather, it was used as a tool to narrow the field of candidates, before a decision was made based on each player's full statistical body of work.

Once each team had an all-time lineup in place, all 30 teams were then ranked based on the quality of that lineup. Quantity of Hall of Fame talent and overall balance top-to-bottom were among the biggest factors in determining where each team ranked, though a healthy amount of subjectivity played a part as well.