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2026: Year Of The “Didn’t See That Coming!”

The 2026 baseball campaign has thoroughly dismantled preseason projections across the league. In the American League West, both the Astros and the Rangers hit their 81st defeat, guaranteeing losing records while one of them still secures the division banner.

Meanwhile, the Seattle Mariners stumbled badly after high expectations, with Cal Raleigh slumping severely in the first half following a sixty-homer year. Preseason prognosticators also completely missed on the Tampa Bay Rays, who were projected to finish at the bottom of the AL East with seventy-nine wins but instead captured the league's top record at ninety-seven victories, outperforming forecasts by nearly thirty games.

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