CBL presents - MLB OD Rosters featuring Top 500 MLB draft prospects & rat updates from 2026 season

[CBLCardinals]

Hey gang!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FeX...ew?usp=sharing

With a nearly third of the real MLB season in the books, I've decided to take my Opening Day rosters, and edit a few things including:

- MLB Draft now features the TOP 500 prospect per Baseball America! Woohooo!!!

I've also included an image of my FV distribution for the top 500 (image at the bottom of this post).

Basically, my top 50 have a 50FV, and from there Top 500 at least are all 40FV. The three yellow dot 50FV further on the right are three RP's.

- Reviewed and calibrated Top 30 by team recent updates from Baseball America

- I've calibrated quite a few players that are having massively different seasons (positively) versus projections. For instance, Jordan Walker in original projections was around a 45 type player - his huge real life offensive outburst now has him at around a ~60/65 in this update.

Too many to list here.... but I would say at least adjustments to around ~100 total batters and pitchers. Other massive breakouts such as Cam Schlitter (75FV) have adjusted ratings and potentials.

- Start date is still Opening Day, with nearly all 40-man rosters correct as of that date.


ENJOY 2026!










Past versions of my files:



All the same goodies below BUT with the additions of:

- 2026 projected 26 man rosters for all 30 teams

- 40 man for each team should be about 95% accurate (may have missed some….also in real life this will be somewhat in flux next 24+ hours with last minute decisions)

- Recent PCA extension for Cubs

- Updated injuries as of 3/25

- Players waived today will start on Waivers/DFA in set


Other notes:

I have Triple A roster limit set to hold 40 players. Many of the NRI’s are stashed there. I realized this is way higher than real life, however wanted to leave for now as most teams will not finalize minor league assignments for several more days. My intention is NOT to have all of the minor league rosters also be 100% accurate, as I would never finish lol. My goal is to get a realistic MLB experience out to everyone as quickly as possible to enjoy Opening Day. Feel free to adjust the Triple A roster limit as you wish!

***IMPORTANT REMINDER***
Once you sect your team please remember to enable “Set all Computer Teams to Allow AI Roster Changes”. I turn off the AI to create roster sets…so just remember to enable this!

OK pencil is down…hopefully I can get going on my own franchise now!!!

GO GO GO!!!!!!

Enjoy 2026 Opening Day friends!!








Friends…welcome to OOTP27! I present to you my most ambitious project yet…!! I have leveraged respected projection system Steamer for 2026 projected stats to load in ratings, adjust potentials, and calibrate the MLB universe. In addition to this I’ve reviewed scouting reports for prospects and 2026 potential draftees on Baseball America, MLB Pipeline, Fan graphs, and others. Hundreds of hours invested over the past four plus months to arrive at this point.

For those of you that are new to my universe…hello and welcome! Since the MLB 2023 season, my roster set updates on the OOTP boards have culminated an astounding ~310,000 VIEWS!!!!

AMAZING!!!! Seriously thank you to everyone for your support over the years. Means a lot to me to share my passion with everyone!


Who am I? I create MLB roster universes for myself and then share that vision with the OOTP community. I have a system of leveraging databases, calibrating from sources like Baseball America, MLB Pipeline, FanGraphs, Steamer, ZIPs, Baseball Savant and much more to create as realistic MLB universe as possible.

A million years ago I was honored to create the MLB roster set for OOTP 6 and my pal Markus, creator of the OOTP series.


- Roster set LOADED with 2026 Steamer projections!!! Over 9,000 players

- Steamer R/L splits loaded for both batters and pitchers

- I use “context neutral” Steamer projections so players do not receive the “double boost” from extreme parks like Coors, Great American Ballpark, etc

- Top 100 prospects calibrated

- Top 30 prospects for every team calibrated

- Updated injuries

- Roster transactions accurate as of 3/18/26

- Updated MLB draft order

- 2025 Rule 5 draft selections

- 2025 Rule 4 (minor league) draft selections

- 2026 MLB schedule

- Any trades/signings up to 3/18/26

- Top 100+ International Free Agents rated and placed on projected team per Baseball America

- Top 500 2026 draft prospects rated per scouting reports Baseball America. Many of the lower HS players did not list birthdate so they have a default of 1/1/2008. For pitchers, the pitch mix and velocity may be off. With my database I focus more on stuff/movement/control.

- Mass reduction to free agent pool fodder. Retired all players below 40 FV. This leaves 456 players versus a bajillion.


IMPORTANT NOTE. Once you sect your team please remember to enable “Set all Computer Teams to Allow AI Roster Changes”. I turn off the AI to create roster sets…so just remember to enable this!

Enjoy the 2026 season gang!

[millhousebc]

CBL....anyway get get this backdated, so we can start a league with this, but still add expansion teams/draft. Think cause it's at opening day, I can't use the expansion tool till next year.

[CBLCardinals]

Originally Posted by millhousebc

CBL....anyway get get this backdated, so we can start a league with this, but still add expansion teams/draft. Think cause it's at opening day, I can't use the expansion tool till next year.

Hmmm
I’m not certain honestly….maybe someone else can chime in??


Maybe if you save it as a template, and then start a game? I don’t recall how far back the date goes when a league/universe is set as a template.

[JRRose]

This is great, thank you! Do you know if there is a way that I can get this draft class downloaded as a separate file to I can implement it in my other worlds?

[crashsports1]

Originally Posted by JRRose

This is great, thank you! Do you know if there is a way that I can get this draft class downloaded as a separate file to I can implement it in my other worlds?

Typically if you open the CBL file and navigate to the draft pool screen, IIRC there should be a drop-down menu somewhere in that new screen that would allow you to import a new draft class, and I believe that also allows you to export. At that point, you'd just navigate to the same screen in your new file and reverse by clicking import. This is all from memory so I apologize if it is a bit off!

[fett2k]

still getting errors when I try to open on a Mac.

[ajsomers]

Curious, but did you keep track of which draft prospects were outright missing from the game to begin with? For instance, I'm not seeing Bo Lowrance or Rintaro Sasaki anywhere in the in-game draft class. I'm sure there are others who are just "missing".

[CBLCardinals]

Originally Posted by ajsomers

Curious, but did you keep track of which draft prospects were outright missing from the game to begin with? For instance, I'm not seeing Bo Lowrance or Rintaro Sasaki anywhere in the in-game draft class. I'm sure there are others who are just "missing".

If a player was in the Baseball America Top 500 prospects, they will be in my set. I did have to add players - not sure who all offhand.

[negroleagueenthusiast]

this does not work... or at least does not work on my MacBook

[negroleagueenthusiast]

It works on Mac, but only as a QS.

[Wudl83]

Originally Posted by negroleagueenthusiast

It works on Mac, but only as a QS.

Working as intended.

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