- The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees are the early favorites to win the World Series in 2025
- Make your futures bets before MLB Opening Day, scheduled for Thursday, March 27
- See our picks for the best, worst, and longshot futures bets to make on the 2025 World Series
The next summer of baseball starts in just three weeks! With the new MLB Season set to begin March 27th on Opening Day, now’s the time to start making your futures picks to win the 2025 MLB World Series.
Will the Los Angeles Dodgers repeat as champs? Can the New York Yankees get revenge and win their first title since 2009? Or should you back a darkhorse long shot that’ will ‘s set to surprise the world?
2025 World Series Odds for National League & American League Teams
At +300, the Dodgers are the current favorites to repeat as World Series champs, with the Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees just behind at +750 and +800, respectively. That’s a mighty fine implied probability for each team: 25% chance to win for LA, 11.76% for Atlanta, and 11.11% for New York.
Should you always bet the favorites to win, though? Since 2000, the preseason favorite has gone on to win the World Series just four times: the Yankees in ’00 and ’09, the Cubs in ’16, and the Dodgers last season. Four wins in twenty-five seasons certainly doesn’t guarantee a sure thing, especially with a 162-game season to get through first.
But the Dodgers only got better since last season. That’s why I’m riding the lightning and taking them to win again in 2025. Let’s break down the “why” of it all, along with two longshot picks and one pick to avoid.
2025 World Series Best Bet: Los Angeles Dodgers (+300)
Typically, you have to actively look for reasons to go against the champ. But when said champ does things like sign a two-time Cy Young award winner who’s projected to only be the third starter in your rotation, those reasons will be few and far between.
Not only did the Dodgers bring in Blake Snell, who’s currently getting +900 to win the National League Cy Young award in 2025, but they also resigned key postseason performers Teoscar Hernandez, Enrique Hernandez, and Tommy Edman, signed two of the best relief pitchers in baseball in Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates, and won the Roki Sasaki sweepstakes.
Sasaki will be the third Japanese-born starting pitcher in the Dodgers rotation, behind Yoshinobu Yamamoto and some guy named Ohtani.
A homer in Shohei's first Cactus League AB of 2025? Of course it was.
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) March 1, 2025pic.twitter.com/RlKdZUzeNH
That’s right, Shohei Ohtani, the sole member of MLB’s 50/50 club, will be returning to the mound in 2025. His bat will do most of the talking, but if Ohtani can get anywhere close to the 2.33 ERA and 219 Ks he put up in 2023, I’d argue the Dodgers could win upwards of 105 games in 2025. Instead, I’ll settle for a repeat win of the World Series.
2025 World Series Bet to Avoid: New York Yankees (+800)
I promise this isn’t about hating on the Yankees. They’re making the playoffs without issue and, when they’re getting +100 to win the AL East, they’ll likely do it by winning the division. They’ll earn a bye, demolish the Tigers, Guardians, or some other AL Central team, and steamroll their way back to the World Series.
Where my concern is, despite all the off-season signings they made, did the Yankees do enough to correct the fundamental mistakes they kept making last season? Against mid-tier teams, you can overcome weird stuff like bad fielding and baserunning. However, that needs to be figured out before the Fall Classic. Otherwise, seasoned opponents will be all over you.
The Yankees don’t even need to be playing against the Dodgers for that to happen. Any “Team of Destiny” that goes on a late-season tear when everything starts to click (e.g. the ’19 Nationals, ’21 Braves, or ’23 Rangers) will be an absolute nightmare for New York.
The Yankees are crazy good at the top of the lineup and in the front end of the rotation. I’m not denying that. But if the back half of the roster can’t keep up, or if the bullpen “exceeds expectations” all season only to regress to the mean when you need a game closed out, how exactly do you expect them to get over the hump?
Best National League Longshot: San Diego Padres (+2800)
The Padres may be baseball’s biggest perennial tease, but this season, I’m willing to buy in.
First off, I don’t care who you are, but facing Luis Arraez, Fernando Tatis Jr., Jackson Merrill, Manny Machado, Jake Cronenworth, and Xander Bogaerts three times a game is going to be a grind. It gets worse for opposing pitchers when you realize the ’24 Padres had the fewest strikeouts in the league and boasted the sixth-best OPS.
If only they didn’t hit into so many damn double plays!
But if 2025’s version of Michael King can pitch anything like the 2024 edition and Nick Pavetta can fill the void left by an injured Joe Musgrove, an already not-too-bad rotation and deep bullpen could potentially move the Padres beyond a mere cameo appearance in the NLDS.
Best American League Longshot: Toronto Blue Jays (+6000)
Admittedly, this one feels silly given how free agents kept telling the Blue Jays “Thanks, But No Thanks” this offseason. However, there’s a subtle silver lining here that might be worth something.
Yes, Toronto missed out on the likes of Juan Soto, Corbin Burnes, Teoscar Hernandez, and Roki Sasaki, the types of players to whom the Blue Jays don’t typically make pitches. After that Jon Morosi/Shohei Ohtani, “…(he’s) en route to Toronto,” Twitter nonsense in 2023, I wouldn’t blame anyone for doubting these potential signings from the get-go.
But the Blue Jays are just two years removed from back-to-back playoff appearances, with a number of key players still on the roster. Bo Bichette clearly dropped off in 2024, but a move to second base in favor of new signing & defensive specialist Andreas Gimenez may take the pressure off Bichette and allow him to rediscover his bat. And potentially getting a clutch Max Scherzer appearance every five days is nothing to complain about.
What a first impression
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) February 25, 2025
Scherzer’s #SpringTraining debut: 2 IP, FOUR Ks! pic.twitter.com/D7POAN8TFu
Nevertheless, the big question mark is Vladimir Guerrero Jr. The Jays clearly did not deliver the contract extension Vladdy wanted before Spring Training, which was another contractual misstep in an off-season full of them. However, this gets me thinking that Guerrero is on the verge of a “Show Me The Money!” season, with the first baseman knocking the cover off the ball all summer long.
That’s bad news for the Blue Jays in the long term, when they won’t be able to match offers in 2026, but could be enough to get the team back to the playoffs (and beyond?) one last time before Guerrero leaves.
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