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Come Fan with UsWednesday, June 24, 2026

Which Of MLB’s Early-Season Surprises Is The Most ‘For Real’?

Over at SB Nation’s Beyond The Boxscore — our baseball blog for the saber-oriented among us — they posed this question to 10 of their writers: “How for-real are these teams who are currently outperforming expectations?”

↵The results, in order from realest to fakest:

↵1. Rays
↵2. Twins
↵3. Blue Jays
↵4. Padres
↵5. Nationals

↵Check out the full post, which features plenty of commentary on those five teams, along with telling us which underperforming team is really that bad. (Hint: It’s the team whose best player is Ty Wigginton.)

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