2026 MLB Watchability Rankings
Major League Baseball is entering a season in which the sport has the most momentum with the sports public since McGuire and Sosa juiced up and smashed baseballs across the country in the summer of 1998. Thanks in large part to the new Evil Empire in the Los Angeles Dodgers. But also, to an upstart team full of mostly players nobody has heard of and an entire country backing them in the Toronto Blue Jays. Oh yeah, and an absolutely cinematic Game 7 of last year’s World Series that even the executives who greenlit Moneyball wouldn’t have believed could be real. There is also an enormous amount of pressure on this season to be incredible because of the impending labor war and lockout that could cut into the regular season for the first time since 1994. Viewership and engagement will have the slimmest chance of surviving a long exhaustive labor negotiation if the 2026 season is one of the best of the century. That is a heavy ask for any set of teams and players. Fortunately, the talent p...