{"id":885440,"date":"2026-09-06T10:53:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/885440\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T10:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:53:53","slug":"2026-mlb-season-defined-by-underachieving-teams-with-mets-at-the-forefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/885440\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 MLB season defined by underachieving teams \u2014 with Mets at the forefront"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was the season in which Pete Crow-Armstong broke out<\/a>. The year in which Cam Schlittler chiseled himself as an ace<\/a>. A 2026 when the White Sox rose from the depths.<\/p>\n

But what we will remember most is this being the year of the disappointing teams \u2014 emphasis on the plural.<\/p>\n

This is the year in which the Mets didn\u2019t learn their lesson<\/a> from last season \u2014 and were actually far worse. This was the season in which being in the final four of the ALCS in 2025 was a near curse for all but the Yankees \u2014 we see you Blue Jays, Mariners, Tigers. This is the year, in fact, when the American League was so rotten-on-steroids bad that some of the most galling teams in the majors still had a chance at the playoffs with three weeks left.<\/p>\n

This was the year when Pittsburgh put a better team around Paul Skenes and then Skenes went the wrong way <\/a>\u2014 and took the Pirates with him. Terry Francona could not sprinkle his managerial pixie dust on the Reds for a second straight year, nor could Tony Vitello bring collegiate mojo to the Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This was the season in which Pete Crow-Armstong broke out. The year in which Cam Schlittler chiseled himself…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[3966,49,496,48,490,3640,307162,462,475,470,82,2091,2089,507,502],"class_list":["post-885440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-ca","tag-cal-raleigh","tag-canada","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-hardball","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}