If you’re no stranger to fantasy sports, you’re likely coming off a successful (or unsuccessful) fantasy football season. Perhaps you also play fantasy basketball or fantasy hockey and are enduring the rigors of those seasons. If all of the above apply and you’re ready for your next challenge, or you’ve just been anxiously awaiting fantasy baseball, we’ve got some good news.
Yahoo Fantasy Baseball is officially live for the 2026 MLB season! Sign up now and get ahead on making your league plans.
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Make the most of this fantasy baseball season
If you’ve played fantasy sports before, great — welcome back! If you’re new to fantasy baseball, we’ve got a very useful and informative Fantasy Baseball 101 that will give you everything you need to know before playing.
Pumped to get your team? Drafts are open now or you can practice with mock drafts to get ready for the real thing. The Yahoo Fantasy analysts are also ready to help you win your league, kicking off draft prep season with our top-250 rankings so you can start mapping out which players to target. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to our fantasy baseball content.
We will be delivering all kinds of advice leading up to the season, including positional previews, draft strategies, breakouts, sleepers, players to avoid drafting, bold predictions and much more from top-notch analysts, including Scott Pianowski and Fred Zinkie.
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[Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league for the 2026 MLB season]
Plenty to get excited about and more to come
We’ll have some awesome new features to announce for the 2026 season soon, but here are a couple of things to get excited about now:
Draft With Friends!
Ever had a few friends who wanted to play but not enough to fill a fantasy baseball league? Well, now you can instantly invite up to three people to join you in a free public league. All you have to do is enter a free public draft room and tap the “Add Friends Pre-Draft” button to invite people to join your draft! (This feature is currently only for public leagues.)
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Rest easy with Start Active Players!
Want to lessen the load of having to meticulously set your fantasy baseball lineup, day in and day out? With the tap of a button on the web or from the Yahoo Fantasy app, the free Start Active Players feature will set your lineup for you, filling your lineup with healthy players who have a game on that specific day/week and benching those who are off and/or injured.
If you’re ready to take your game to the next level, you can get something even better …
Gain an edge with new Yahoo Fantasy+ features!
Yahoo Fantasy+ premium features help you win from draft day to playoffs. Players with Fantasy+ are 81%‡ more likely to win their league. Here are three new tools* for coming for this baseball season for Fantasy+ subscribers:
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Instant mock draft: Practice your draft in seconds. Test different strategies, positions and roster constructions as many times as you want, anytime, instantly.
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Draft Kits: An AI-Powered Draft Kit featuring a personalized cheat sheet with rankings, tiers and projections tailored specifically to your league. Exclusively in the Yahoo Fantasy App.
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Assistant GM: Manage smarter, not harder with the new feature that helps set your perfect lineup with one click and so much more.
*These Fantasy+ tools are coming to Fantasy Baseball. They already exist for other fantasy sports. ‡ Based on 2024 Yahoo Fantasy Sports LLC data.
Now’s your chance to gain an edge — unlock premium draft tools and more with Yahoo Fantasy Plus.
A reminder that the default scoring in all newly created fantasy baseball leagues will be head-to-head points. This is the standard across all new leagues, but private-league commissioners can change their scoring settings if they so choose, while those in public leagues will also have head-to-head category and rotisserie scoring as options as well.
Once drafts are in the books and the first pitch is thrown on Opening Day, our analysts will be with you all season long with waiver wire targets, trades to pull off, lineup tips and more. And for personalized advice, Yahoo Fantasy+ offers a wealth of in-season tools — and several other membership perks — to give you an extra edge when it comes to roster moves. All of this will help you stay ahead of your leaguemates on your quest to take home a fantasy baseball championship!
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Now go sign up for Yahoo Fantasy Baseball to start prepping for the 2026 MLB season. Good luck!
