Thursday is one of the most exciting days in baseball, and not just because we have three elimination games in the Wild Card Series on tap. We also started our Rotoworld Staff and Friends Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft for the 2026 season.

While many places do a “too early” mock draft, we’d argue that it’s not really too early to look ahead to next season. Sometimes, drafting now, when we’ve been dialed into games and stats for so long, is more educational than doing mock drafts in February.

Right now, we have the ability to react in a clear-headed way to the results of the 2025 season and think of what we would have done differently. Once we get into spring training, we start to get inundated with narratives about who did what in the offseason, and that can influence our thought process to

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