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While several teams spent the last three months collecting free agents and trading to make their clubs better heading into spring training, several others have done little or nothing to improve.

For those teams, that means lowered expectations heading into the new season.

The clubs that already had fairly low hopes have made sure improvement will be nearly imossible with their inactive offseasons. And for the teams that ended last season with promise, the ceiling has dropped considerably for one or more reasons.

So, as January closes and spring training report dates creep closer, let’s gauge those ceilings. A 10 on the expectation scale is “division title or bust,” a 5 signals “contend into September,” and a 1 means “when does spring training 2013 start?”

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