{"id":470832,"date":"2026-02-10T15:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/470832\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:19:16","slug":"the-50-most-interesting-people-in-baseball-mlb-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/470832\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50 most interesting people in baseball \u2014 MLB and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tarik Skubal radically changed the arbitration system last week.<\/p>\n<p>Next on his 2026 agenda is to take on the world, win the World Series, make award history, and stay on trajectory for the largest pitching contract ever.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if it came to it, Skubal would create one of the biggest trade deadline bidding wars the game has seen.<\/p>\n<p>This is the checklist worthy of the No. 1 spot in our 2026 \u201cMost Interesting People in Baseball\u201d spring opener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tarik Skubal radically changed the arbitration system last week. Next on his 2026 agenda is to take on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[6097,64,63,1828,1829,591,5147,3273,5149,85,2136,735,205673,240419,6100],"class_list":["post-470832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-judge","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-juan-soto","tag-mlb","tag-paul-skenes","tag-rob-manfred","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-spring-training","tag-spring-training-preview","tag-tarik-skubal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}