Bold fantasy baseball predictions for the 2026 MLB season: Which will come true?
Which of these predictions will come to pass for fantasy baseball?
It’s about that time. The Yahoo Fantasy baseball analysts — Scott Pianowski, Fred Zinkie and Corbin Young — share their boldest takes yet , ahead of Opening Day. Draft your Yahoo Fantasy Baseball team for the 2026 MLB Season 😏 Regression?
Not so fast Geraldo Perdomo will finish in the top 10 in the NL MVP race again. Perdomo already does one of the hardest things to do at an elite level: he makes contact against the fire-breathing dragons. He had more walks than strikeouts last year, a sign of elite skills and he almost never swung at a pitch out of the strike zone.
He’s also a plus defender, and when he wants a bag, he takes it (27 steals in 33 attempts last year). If Perdomo can keep most of his 20 homers from last year, he’s going to be somewhere between a 6-7 WAR player. His ADP (62) is expecting him to crash hard from last season, and I’ve viewed that as a buying opportunity all spring.
BONUS: If you’d like a deeper cut, go with this one — Marcell Ozuna returns to the All-Star game. Ozuna was a star in 2023 and 2024, conking 79 home runs and posting a . 289/.