Now allowing micro-betting; what could go wrong?! It's your 2026 Fantasy Baseball thread! (also we have a team up for grabs for you lurkers)

Over-under on anyone breaking 100 moves? How many NSB can someone manage drop in one day? How many small ways can we think of to degrade the sport we love so much?! Let'a keep this season of fantasy baseball "Clase-y"!

League has been renewed and everyone who's not Clemenza has been added. Vladdy, Gore, Pena and others will be heading into the draft if no one adopts the orphaned team.

STAT CHANGES: goodbye hated doubles and will be taking wins with it out the door.

Season starts Wed March 25, so I'll set us to draft Sunday March 22, 4pm EST and lets try to have our selects in before that weekend.

This year's baddie is Billy Childish Bambino (Steve Shasta), with pretty much a dynasty going on in the 2020's.

You may all now proceed to complain about your teams/keepers...

Corbin Burnesen keepers

Corbin Carroll (25)
Riley Greene (25)
Fernando Tatis Jr (27)
Tarik Skubal (29)
George Kirby (28)

My OF is sorted, looking forward to my annual tradition of having a mediocre season from my starting first baseman!

my keepers are such a mess only have two options for my above 27 picks and have gambled and lost two years in a row on my early prospect picks...

Shane McClanahan, 28 (hasn't pitched in two years)
Steven Kwan, 28 (.705 OPS in 2025)
Gunnar Henderson, 24
Hunter Goodman, 26 (last round flier that I didn't expect to pan out, but *probably* taking him over the other options)

and then can't decide between:
Spencer Schwellenbach, 25 (probably injured for a good amount of 2026)
Zach Neto, 25 (not crazy about his OBP and don't need a second SS)

also likely not keeping:
Jackson Holliday, 22
Roki Sasaki, 24

i'm probably going with

PCA (skeptical he won't have a slump this season but obv worth the gamble, especially given my options)
brayan bello (i guess? my only other option for <27 is jasson dominguez)
hunter brown (feel pretty OK about this)
cole ragans (feel pretty OK about this too despite his health issues)
nico hoerner (i need to figure out how the loss of 2b impacts his value - michael busch might make more sense if power has become even more important)

but obviously still thinking through my >27 options

wondering why you'd be down on a 30/30 CF... but then i saw his OBP. yikes.

i just also have javy baez-related trauma re: flashy sparkplug/energy cubs who could get really hot or suddenly look hopeless at the plate

is this still the best link for this year’s keepers?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ppox9Hl6zWBKnwkQ0po2UAeaHn6KhbmTy7Mu58SFX0/edit?gid=664111364#gid=664111364

keeping these little guys, most likely:

jazz chisholm jr (28)
freddy peralta (29)
elly de la cruz (24)
hunter greene (26)
ryan pepiot (28)

most likely dropping these little guys

jordan walker
jordan lawlar
brendan donovan

yamamotopsycho nightmare likely keepers

roman anthony
bobby witt
spencer strider
oneil cruz
yoshinobu yamamoto

jordan walker
jordan lawlar

this threw my dyslexia for a loop. to bad there isn't a jordan kwaller.
RIP the jordan lawlar experiment.

it wouldn't surprise me at all if one of these jordans has a big year soon! but man it's been brutal carrying these jordans

spreadsheet for those who are interested

my tentative keepers are:

Cal Raleigh (29)
Ronald Acuna Jr. (28)
Vinnie Pasquantino (28)
CJ Abrams (25)
Jackson Merrill (22)

couple of potential cuts in there, i have a lot of guys hovering right around the same level

thanks will!

thinking i will go with Schwellenbach over Neto.
my fear is, in doing so, i might be jinxing Schwell to a career of horrible injuries.

so my pics, probably, will be:

Kwan, 28
McClannahan, 28
Goodman, 26
Schwellenbach, 25
Henderson, 24

don't know much about him and also dont wanna jinx it, but Schwellenbach is just about the most "1400 IP of fairly decent pitching" surname i have ever heard

keeperzz:

Junior Caminero (22yo), Tampa Bay Devil Rays 3B
James Wood (23yo), Washington National Expositions LF
Garrett Crochet (26yo), Boston Red Sox SP
Juan Soto (27yo), New York Metropolitans RF
Kyle Tucker (29yo), Los Doyers de los Angeles RF

my fear is, in doing so, i might be jinxing Schwell to a career of horrible injuries.

:````(

i do believe you mean the "Red Stockings", my good man

Skenes, Herrera, Luzardo, Lee. Not seeing much use for any of my others at this point...but who knows what spring will bring?

i might know someone who would be willing to take over The Missing Team, should i mention it to him or ?

keepers for Naked Ragans

Jasson Dominguez (23)
Pete Crow-Armstrong (24)
Hunter Brown (27)
Cole Ragans (28)
Cristopher Sanchez (29)

decided not to keep brayan bello despite the temptation to do so just to allow me to change my team name to brayan bello's safari planet (did i steal this joke from somewhere?)

i might know someone who would be willing to take over The Missing Team, should i mention it to him or

Appreciate it, but unless you *really* want you friend to join, there’s no need. We still have a decent sized league and I would be hesitant to add someone who isn’t already on ilx, since all our announcements/deliberations/trash-talk happens here.

We could probably all step up our trash talk game tbh

little guys are so strong we can drop two jordans and we don’t even care

little guys are gonna pass you up in nsb this year

my trashtalk is really bad, i’m just establishing my baseline here so i can look back and see how far i’ve gone

https://c.tenor.com/e5BOpTCQRo8AAAAM/strawberry-simpsons.gif

little guys gonna take the ball and go home, you’ll have to find new ball

Not much to choose from on the Bichette's Brew keeper list, it's mostly a bunch of failed prospects. I need a killer draft this year.

Bichette's Brew keepers

Luis Garcia Jr. (25)
Michael Harris II (25)
Yordan Alvarez (28)
Logan Webb (29)
Bo Bichette (28)

Send Nootbaar's hot noots include:

Bryan Woo (26)
Wilyer Abreu (26)
injured Jordan Westburg (27)
Logan Gilbert (28)
Austin Riley (28)