The days are longer, it’s getting warmer, and baseball has arrived. MLB Opening Day is upon us, and with it, the hope that 2026 can finally be the year our team turns it all around. Sure, functionally this is another season where everyone is trying to catch the seemingly-unstoppable Dodgers’ monolith, but everyone is 0-0 right now and that means we can dream.
It’s time to take stock of the Major League Baseball landscape before the first pitch and dive into the players who will shape the grand narrative of the season. These aren’t necessarily the best players in baseball (though there will naturally be some overlap), but more so
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