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.
[Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league for the 2026 MLB season]
Yahoo Fantasy baseball returns in 2026 with new features designed to help fans optimize their lineups, commissioners manage their leagues and the entire Yahoo Fantasy baseball community stay better connected.
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New features
A new team screen calendar view gives fans a single weekly scan of their team, enabling them to see which day of the week their pitchers are scheduled to start. Launching early this season, this feature will help fans more easily spot gaps in their lineups and plan for the week ahead.
An updated draft settings tool enables league commissioners to manage draft times and formats, as well as set draft orders, directly from the Yahoo Fantasy app.
Fantasy Feed — which launched for the football season — will be available for the baseball campaign. Fantasy Feeds enable fans to follow, react to and talk with other fans about every big play from the games that matter most to their fantasy season.
Matchup of the Week — which also launched in the fall — highlights one must-watch league showdown every week. Fans who win the Matchup of the Week earn a custom badge to flex on their leaguemates.
Even more to get excited aboutDraft With Friends!
Ever had a few friends who wanted to play but not enough to fill a fantasy baseball league? You can instantly invite up to seven 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.)
Prestige Leagues for baseball
These are the exclusive leagues for diamond, platinum and gold users that are available in Yahoo’s live draft lobby.
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 desktop or from the Yahoo Fantasy app, the free Start Active Players feature will set your lineup for you, filling it with healthy players who have a game on that specific day/week and benching those who are off and/or injured.
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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 for baseball!
Yahoo Fantasy+ premium features help you win from draft day to the playoffs. Subscribers win their leagues 81%‡ more often and will also now have access to a trio of popular features that were available for football season, including:
Instant Mock Draft: Practice your draft in seconds. Test different strategies, positions and roster constructions as many times as you want, anytime, instantly.
Draft Kits: A personalized cheat sheet with rankings, tiers and projections tailored specifically to your league. Additionally, player insights surface real-time expert analysis directly in those cheat sheets. Exclusively in the Yahoo Fantasy app.
Assistant GM: A virtual assistant that starts your best players and alerts you if you need to make a move before the action starts.
‡ Based on 2024 Yahoo Fantasy Sports LLC data.
Now’s your chance to gain an edge — unlock premium draft tools, player projections and more with Yahoo Fantasy Plus.
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.
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Pumped to get your team? Drafts are open now or you can practice with mock drafts to get ready for the real thing. 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 fade, bold predictions and much more from top-notch analysts, including Scott Pianowski, Fred Zinkie and Corbin Young.
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!
Now go sign up for Yahoo Fantasy baseball to start prepping for the 2026 MLB season. Good luck!
Note: 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.