Lead Story - 3/6/2026

League news after day 87

Current win streak: Jays 6 (season: Orioles 11)
Current losing streak: Royals, Nationals 6 (season: Red Sox 12)

Braves Byron Watts won his 11th straight start, and leads with 14 wins overall.

Mark Prior (CIN), Armand Fox (CLE), and Mike Duran (TOR) threw shutouts.

Rockies Jaq O'Neal has taken over the HR lead with 28. Travis Swift, who led with 26 for a long time, hasnt hit one in his last 19 games.

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Bump outburst not enough to carry Dodgers

Dale Bump blasted 2 homers, but it wasn't enough to lift the Dodgers over the Padres. San Diego won by a score of 8-3. | Box

Stovall baffles Marlins, Phillies win

Ray Stovall struckout 8 Miami batters in a 6-0 win for the Phillies. | Box

Diamondbacks fall to Blue Jays despite McHale's efforts

Chaz McHale whiffed 8 batters, but the Blue Jays managed to beat the Diamondbacks, 4-3. Spencer Strider struckout 11 Arizona batters in the contest. | Box

Big game for Abreu lifts Tigers to victory

Bobby Abreu drove in 4 runs, carrying Detroit to a 12-3 victory over the Pirates. Bill Martin had a big game as well, knocking in 3 runs for Detroit while recording 3 hits. | Box

Didion dominates, White Sox win 6-1

Bruce Didion was brilliant last night, allowing just 2 hits over 7 innings, leading the White Sox to a 6-1 win over the Cardinals. | Box

3/6/2026

Draft pick trades and position changes

TRADED picks - can only trade picks for upcoming draft
LAD receives #2 from TOR (Boston and Hartenstine)
PIT receives #1 and #2 from SF (Bemus)
BOS receives #1 from NYM (Salt)
PHI receives #2 from SD (Chase)
TB receives #1 and #2 from SEA (Brunsberg)
BOS receives #2 from NYM (Jone deal)
BOS receives #2 from HOU (Montgomery)
PHI receives #1 from HOU (Patton and Duran)
PHI receives #1 from TOR (Percival)
PHI receives #1 from ATL (Smoltz)
LAA receives #2 from MIL (Thompson)
PIT receives HOU#1 and SD#2 from PHI (Strand)

Position Changes (1 allowed per off-season, cant be under rookie contract)
DBacks - C/OF Jorge Weeks to OF/C
Giants - 1B/C Kareem Livingston to C/1B
Mets - 1B/C Adley Rutchsman to C/1B
Reds - SS/OF Oneil Cruz to OF/SS
White Sox - SS/2B Oliver Curtis to 2B/SS

SP to RP conversions (1 allowed per off-season, must be 30 or older)
Rangers - Vlade Andrews
Red Sox - Merk Clark
White Sox - Irvin Elysian

2/19/2026

Pennant Chase strength rating

Below is Pennant Chase's power ranking. It's based on the Real Stats of your team, and pretty much based on rank. PC doesnt know how they'll play or how you manage, it's just looking at numbers. Some teams listed here in the top ten will miss playoffs, teams listed in the bottom ten will do well. So take this for what it's worth. Just PC opinion of your team based on whatever stats it looks at. We've already seen many times teams at the bottom go far and teams at the top fizzle out. PC is looking at Real Stats, which never tell the whole story.

DBacks
Padres
Mets
Cardinals
Rockies
Dodgers
Guardians
Reds
Braves
Orioles

White Sox
Brewers
Marlins
Twins
Jays
Phillies
Cubs
A's
Royals
Giants

Nationals
Astros
Angels
Rangers
Pirates
Yankees
Mariners
Tigers
Red Sox
Rays