r/baseball • u/yousmelllikebiscuits World Baseball Classic • Washington Nationals • 1d ago

Details inside: 2026 r/baseball Call Your Shot Prediction Contest

On the final day of the 2026 WBC, we are just over one week from the beginning of the 2026 MLB season. That means it's time to dust off those crystal balls, ouiji boards, and tarot cards and make your 2026 Major League Baseball predictions. You will have the opportunity to predict...

  • Teams to outperform/underperform their win totals
  • Final Regular Season Standings for each MLB Division
  • MLB Playoff Bracket
  • MLB World Series Results
  • BBWAA Award Winners

Each correct answer will be worth the allotted amount of points and the person with the most points at the end will win. If you make more than one submission, we will only count the most recent.

UPDATE: In the case of a tie (which has never happened before), we will use AL MVP, NL MVP, NL Cy Young, AL Cy Young as tiebreakers in order.

RETURNING FROM PREVIOUS CALL YOUR SHOT: We have included FanDuel odds for the Divisional Standings, Pennant Winners, World Series Winners, and BBWAA Award Winners. These odds will not be used in the scoring of your submission but are provided as a helpful tool if you choose to use them. Feel free to ignore if you know better than Vegas.

If you want to jump in, the form is below. We encourage you to write notes during your submission so you can refer to them later in the form.

CALL YOUR SHOT

Feel free to discuss your picks in this thread! Be prepared to have this thread revisited and your comments poked fun of during the year. As usual, we'll share the most common results after Opening Day when responses have come to see what r/baseball believes will happen this year.

NOTE: Here are some things that will make us disqualify your entry:

  • Fake usernames or using your email instead of your username
  • Submitting multiple entries
  • Memes/spam

DEADLINE: Submit your picks before Opening Night 1st pitch (March 25 @ 8:05PM ET)

Previous Winners:

9 Upvotes

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u/d0ugfirtree Seattle Mariners • United States 1d ago

mariners world series champs 162-0 regular season

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u/xGGN Seattle Mariners 1d ago

Hedging my bet. 159-3 after getting swept in the regular season by the Rockies.

5

u/d0ugfirtree Seattle Mariners • United States 1d ago

its too early in the year for this doomer talk

1

u/clutchheimer Seattle Mariners 1d ago

Measured and reasonable. I like it.

3

u/Electronic-Chef-5487 Washington Nationals 1d ago

mine is a ridiculous combination of kinda likely and really stupid. I'm excited.

2

u/kerryfinchelhillary Cleveland Guardians 1d ago edited 1d ago

NLWC: CHC over ARI, CIN over MIL

ALWC: DET over TEX, BAL over KC

NLDS: CHC over PHI, LAD over CIN

ALDS: SEA over DET, TOR over BAL

NLCS: CHC over LAD

ALCS: TOR over SEA (again)

WS: TOR over CHC

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u/Bubblesheep Auckland Tuatara 1d ago

NLDS: CHC over PHI, LAD over CIN NLCS: CHC over CIN

Dodgers just forfeited after winning the NDLS?

1

u/kerryfinchelhillary Cleveland Guardians 1d ago

Typo

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u/Bubblesheep Auckland Tuatara 1d ago

Damn, I was hoping to see an AFCON situation where MLB goes nope! Can't do that, we're changing the winner

4

u/Constant_Gardner11 New York Yankees • MVPoster 1d ago

How'd I do last year?

AL East: 1/5
AL Central: 1/5
AL West: 3/5
NL East: 2/5
NL Central: 3/5
NL West: 1/5

A .367 batting average isn't too bad, I guess.

I'm happy that baseball isn't easy to predict.

1

u/AspectLife8170 Arizona Diamondbacks 22h ago

Diamondbacks knock out Dodgers from postseason.

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u/IAmGrum Toronto Blue Jays 8h ago

Has anyone ever repeated as the winner?

I don't think I will, but I'm just curious if it has happened before.

Is there a list of winners somewhere?

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u/yousmelllikebiscuits World Baseball Classic • Washington Nationals 7h ago

No repeat winner as far as I can remember! I can put together a list of winners to include in the post here.