Ranking MLB’s 6 biggest disappointments of 2026 regular season

It’s no accident that a team with a losing record might reach the postseason for the first time in a full Major League Baseball season.

You have to have a lot of terrible play to pull that off. And, more specifically, a significant number of teams that greatly disappointed in 2026.

Oddly enough, many of them are still in playoff contention with roughly a dozen games remaining. That doesn’t mean they haven’t significantly underperformed, though, not unlike an NFL team canning its coach even if the bottom’s not falling out.

With that, we examine the six most disappointing teams this season – even if one or two still have a decent shot at the playoffs:

Projected win totals (USA TODAY Sports, betting consensus): 91, 91.5

In a sense, the Blue Jays have played their way off this list, back at .500 and just a game out of the final American League wild-card spot. But they were expected to do much more than simply tread water.

Injuries have not helped, of course. They lost starter Cody Ponce for the season during his first start, waited three months for Shane Bieber to return from offseason arm woes and twice lost playoff hero…

Original source: https://www.usatoday.com/sports/