2026 MLB Predictions from the Lookout Landing staff—and you
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Photo by Cooper Neill/MLB Photos via Getty Images | MLB Photos via Getty Images AL West: Mariners (17 votes)
Crowd: Mariners (95.6%)
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- Zach: Knock it off. Get serious.
- Isabelle: This is weird, it makes me nervous, but it doesn’t mean it’s wrong…
- Eric: Such confidence in a Mariners roster is a very unfamiliar feeling, but the rest of the AL West just doesn’t scare me at all.
- John: MARITIME LAW IS IN EFFECT!
- Ryan: goms
Royals (6), Guardians (2)
Crowd: Tigers (71.2%)
- Kate: I picked the Royals for everything last year and then they were terrible, but this year will be different, I swear. Did you watch the Wittz Carlton digital short? They are powered by friendship!
- Eric: I picked the Royals because other smart people picked them.
- Ryan: The Royals brought in their fences so much that even Jonathan India can hit a home run there now.
- John: The Royals are plucky (see the Wild Card section) and Maikel Garcia is a monster. But the Tigers got better at multiple spots this winter, much as I’d like Framber to be laughable. It’s theirs to lose.
- Max: I hate this division. (Royals)
- Nick T: Someone has to win this accursed division. (Tigers)
Red Sox (4), Yankees (4)
Crowd: Blue Jays (50.8%)
- Isabelle: Evidently a hot-ish take, but I am afraid of the Red Sox and I think they’re going to be very good.
- Nicky V: People are sleeping on the Red Sox. They’ll finish one game behind the Jays.
- Eric: This is my reverse jinx on the Jays.
- Ryan: I love the Sox rotation
- Ezra: I’m a little surprised people are so low on the Yankees. The Red Sox will be a factor, but I think it’s far from a sure thing that they’re going to step over them into the playoffs. Especially considering the Yankees beat em 2 outta 3 in the wildcard last year.
- Nick T: I’m emotionally hedging on the Blue Jays. I want so badly to be wrong. Toronto’s pitching is certainly a reason to assume there will be some regression but it still feels like their division to lose.
Tigers (6), Astros (3), Rays (2), A’s (1), Orioles (1), Rangers (1)
Crowd: Yankees (69.9%), Red Sox (45.9%), Guardians (24%)
- Zach: Get you a man who believes in you the way Kate believes in the 2020s Rangers.
- Kate: It is important to have a brand.
- Eric: Any person who believes in the Texas Rangers is not someone Kate will want to spend time with, I would wager.
- Ryan: The Rays are sneaky good. If I were braver, I’d pick them in the East.
- John: The Rays are too sneaky and will get trampled for at least one more year. I cannot take seriously their pitching staff, perhaps to my peril. Kansas City, meanwhile, will feast upon much of the Central and be pesky against the coasts.
- Ezra: Whoever picked the A’s let me know. I want some of whatever you’re smoking.
- Nick T: I’ve said I’ll stop believing in the Astros when they miss the playoffs. Well, as it happens I’m not built like that. Might need some professional help process these fears. For now I’m dumping them in WC3, and dumping my trauma here.
Red Sox (2), Blue Jays (1), Royals (1), Yankees (1)
Crowd: Mariners (61%)
- Ryan: Smitty Werbenjägermanjensen
- Nick T: Mariners have the highest odds in the American League to make the playoffs (80.4%) and win the World Series (8.9%). I am extremely susceptible to propaganda.