Bay Area Breakers
Finished 17 · 15 pts · Missed playoffs
Bay Area Breakers finished 17 on 15 standings points and missed the playoffs. Here is the roster as the season ended, the draft class that built it, and every trade and waiver move in between — reconciled from the league’s own transaction logs.
Roster at season’s end
| Player | Tour ranking | 2026 season |
|---|---|---|
| Len Yang | Men’s doubles #49 · 1735 | 51.9% from 27 matches gender doubles 10-7 · mixed 4-6 |
| Kiora Kunimoto | Outside the top 100 | 48.3% from 58 matches gender doubles 3-9 · mixed 4-9 · singles 21-12 |
| Blaine Hovenier | Men’s doubles #26 · 1838 Mixed #92 · 1661 | 47.9% from 48 matches gender doubles 14-10 · mixed 8-9 · singles 1-6 |
| Genie Erokhina | Women’s doubles #53 · 1686 Mixed #75 · 1694 | 44.4% from 36 matches gender doubles 9-10 · mixed 7-9 · singles 0-1 |
| Ella Yeh | Outside the top 100 | 33.3% from 15 matches gender doubles 2-5 · mixed 3-5 |
| Braden Jacobson | Outside the top 100 | 21.1% from 19 matches gender doubles 1-6 · mixed 1-3 · singles 2-6 |
How a matchup is played
Every MLP match is four games in a fixed order — women’s doubles, men’s doubles, then two mixed doubles — each to 11, win by two, and all four are played even when the match is already decided, because point differential decides seeding. New for 2026: there are no starters and subs. A team may use all six players in one match, and may field a different man for men’s doubles than for mixed. Doubles lineups are submitted the night before. At 2–2 it goes to a DreamBreaker — singles, any four from the roster, two men and two women, chosen only after the fourth game, with the home team declaring first.
Pairing-by-pairing records are not published by the league for every team. We would rather leave this blank than guess — the 2026 full-roster rule makes lineups genuinely fluid, and an invented pairing would be obvious to anyone who watched the season.
Where these numbers come from. Rankings and ELO are PickleWave’s per-discipline model, captured 4 September 2026 — an independent rating built from professional match results, not an official tour ranking, and its leaderboards run 100 deep per discipline. Mixed doubles is a single combined pool of men and women, so a rank there is not a rank among men or among women. Season records cover all professional play in 2026 — PPA, APP and MLP combined — not MLP alone. Pairing records, where shown, were published by The Kitchen in August 2026 with statistics credited to PickleKey.com. The roster reconciliation is our own work from the league’s draft results and transaction logs. Pickleball Insiders is not affiliated with Major League Pickleball.
How the roster was built
MLP’s 2026 draft was a live auction — teams bid for each selection slot, so there was no preset pick order. Teams could protect up to five players at the keeper deadline on 15 February; 54 players were kept across the league, and the remaining 66 slots were filled at the draft on 27 February.
Kept (2): Mya Bui · Pablo Tellez
Drafted (4):
| Pick | Player | Reported bid |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | Len Yang | — |
| 26 | Ella Yeh | — |
| 48 | Genie Erokhina | — |
| 49 | Luc Pham | — |
Transactions
| Date | In | Out | From / to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23 | Blaine Hovenier | Las Vegas Night Owls | |
| Jun 23 | Luc Pham | Miami Pickleball Club | |
| Jul 7 | Kiora Kunimoto | California Black Bears | |
| Jul 7 | James Delgado | California Black Bears | |
| Jul 7 | Mya Bui | California Black Bears | |
| Jul 7 | Pablo Tellez | California Black Bears | |
| Jul 20 | Gabriel Joseph | Miami Pickleball Club | |
| Jul 20 | Braden Jacobson | Las Vegas Night Owls | |
| Jul 20 | James Delgado | Miami Pickleball Club | |
| Jul 20 | Gabriel Joseph | Las Vegas Night Owls |
February post-draft roster: Mya Bui · Ella Yeh · Genie Erokhina · Pablo Tellez · Len Yang · Luc Pham
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