2026 MLB Season

Snow Plow

Snow Plow

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Let’s kick it off with Kyle Tucker going to the LA Dodgers for 4 years and $240 million.

Congrats to him, but he’s a .270/ 25 HR guy. What am I missing? The sport is broken at this point.
 
It's unfortunate that Tucker agreed to a deal in the liberal hell hole of LA. Having grown up a Dodgers fan, they have morphed into a horribly woke organization. Despite this they do have some of my favorite players and a very good manager. The Dodgers are well positioned for a 3 peat in 2026.
 
Snow Plow said:
Let’s kick it off with Kyle Tucker going to the LA Dodgers for 4 years and $240 million.

Congrats to him, but he’s a .270/ 25 HR guy. What am I missing? The sport is broken at this point.
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Agreed. Honestly all sports are pretty much broken. I do think baseball was the sport that really opened the floodgates for all the absurd contracts.
 
Leonardfan said:
Agreed. Honestly all sports are pretty much broken. I do think baseball was the sport that really opened the floodgates for all the absurd contracts.
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It seems that all major sports are primarily funded by giant TV rights deals. Because the average person can’t afford to do anything but sit on their couch and watch TV.
 
Cubs will be a very white friendly team:

Cubs Sign Alex Bregman
By AJ Eustace and Tim Dierkes | January 14, 2026 at 11:03am CDT

The Cubs have made their third-largest signing in franchise history official, announcing Wednesday that they’ve signed third baseman Alex Bregman to a five-year contract that’ll reportedly guarantee him $175MM.
 
Leonardfan said:
Agreed. Honestly all sports are pretty much broken. I do think baseball was the sport that really opened the floodgates for all the absurd contracts.
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I can name a few watershed moment in North American sports salary history and as you stated baseball led the way because until maybe the late 80's it was still the number 1 sport in North America.

There was a race to 1 million a year in baseball after Marvin Miller won the rights in court for free agency. After this the top salary of the star players exploded to around a million with a year or two and this was in late 70's money so picture about 4 million in today's money.

A-Rod's contract with the salary bump and the term length did another salary bump to North American sports and now multibillionaires owning teams and spending like the salaries are tax write off(they probably are).

How could anybody justify the back end of the any of star players contracts when they will be 4th outfielder types making insane money for their skill level.

PS I remember when owners weren't corporations or being worth hundreds of millions dollars let alone billions, there were some real flim flam artists that owned NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB teams. The main reason why owners ran from city to city and black mailed various cities was because they were too broke to fund stadiums for themselves.

The Davis clan are among the last of those relics. I don't know how long Dumb and Dumber will own the team but if the sh(* hits the fan in Vegas expect the Raiduhs to hit the road begging and scamming another city.
 
knightedsoldier5000 said:
Cubs will be a very white friendly team:

Cubs Sign Alex Bregman
By AJ Eustace and Tim Dierkes | January 14, 2026 at 11:03am CDT

The Cubs have made their third-largest signing in franchise history official, announcing Wednesday that they’ve signed third baseman Alex Bregman to a five-year contract that’ll reportedly guarantee him $175MM.
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Cubs projected 2026 roster (Nearly all white!):

1B Michael Busch (White)
2B Nico Hoerner (White)
SS (Dansby Swanson) (White)
3B (Alex Bregman) (White)
C (Carson Kelly) (White)
OF (Ian Happ) (White)
OF Seiya Suzuki (Japanese)
OF Pete Crow Armstrong (White)
DH Moises Ballesteros (hispanic)
Utility/3B/DH/2B - Matt Shaw (White)

SP Matt Boyd (white)
SP Edward Cabrera (not white)
SP Cade Horton (white)
SP Shota Imanaga (Japanese)
SP Jameson Tallon (white)
SP Justin Steele (white) - not sure when returning from injury
 
Crazy that pitchers and catchers will be reporting in a month or so. Time flies. I have said this for the past few years but I'd like to cover more baseball on the site. I love early spring baseball especially. Something about those first few weeks for me.

I've skipped out on fantasy baseball the past couple of seasons. Plan to jump back into it this year so I'll go through and get some lists together of players to watch.

@knightedsoldier5000 does an excellent job covering MLB throughout the season. MLB has also gotten increasingly White.
 
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