If a World Series manages to go six or seven games, what inevitably follows is a debate about where the series ranks on people’s all-time list. The 2025 World Series will undoubtedly be on many’s for years to come and will be talked about throughout the upcoming offseason. The Los Angeles Dodgers were the favorites to win the World Series before the season started and they were the favorites to win before the series started against Toronto. In the end they certainly earned it.
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It has been 32 years since the Toronto Blue Jays were last in the World Series. That was when Joe Carter hit a 3-run walk-off home run to win the series in Game 6. Toronto has come close in more recent seasons to get back to the Fall Classic, but this is the best they’ve been since that 1993 season. For the Los Angeles Dodgers they are attempting to repeat as World Series champions. They have never done so in their franchise’s history and the last time a team repeated as World Series champions were the New York Yankees from 1998-2000. One team has a stacked roster with future hall of famers and the other has a few standout players in the prime of their careers with a solid amount of depth across the board. One team swept their way into the World Series while the other had to claw their way back to a Game 7 victory to get in. This one should be interesting to say the least.
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MLB Awards
NL MVP – DH/P Shohei Ohtani – Los Angeles Dodgers
AL MVP – SS Bobby Witt Jr. – Kansas City Royals
NL Cy Young – Paul Skenes – Pittsburgh Pirates
AL Cy Young – Jacob deGrom – Texas Rangers
NL Rookie of the Year – OF Dylan Crews – Washington Nationals
AL Rookie of the Year – SS Jacob Wilson – Athletics
NL Manager of the Year – Craig Counsell – Chicago Cubs
AL Manager of the Year – A.J. Hinch – Detroit Tigers
Postseason Projections
NL Division Winners – Dodgers, Braves, Brewers
NL Wild Card Winners – Cubs, Padres, Phillies
AL Division Winners – Tigers, Rangers, Orioles
AL Wild Card Winners – Yankees, Astros, Mariners
NLCS – Dodgers over Cubs
ALCS – Rangers over Tigers
World Series – Dodgers over Rangers
Sometimes you can tell how a series is gonna go from the first at-bat. For Game 1 of the 2024 World Series, you knew how this was gonna go when Dodger 1B Freddie Freeman crushed a first pitch fastball into the right field bleachers of Dodger Stadium for a grand slam. The series could have and really should have ended up being a sweep for the Dodgers, but manager Dave Roberts’ questionable pitching decisions in Game 4 don’t matter anymore. They came back to win Game 5 in New York after being down 5-0 going into the 5th inning to win their 8th World Series title in franchise history.
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For all of the criticism of the current Postseason format in baseball that hasn’t catered to the top two seeds, that all needs to be thrown out of the window now. The New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers were the top seeds for their respective leagues. They will now be facing each other in the World Series for the 12th time and the first since 1981. For New York they haven’t been to the World Series since 2009 when they won their 27th title that season. For Los Angeles, their last World Series title came in 2020 and will be looking for their 8th title in franchise history. Both teams have the star power that most talking heads crave for this kind of a series. The likely MVPs for both the American and National Leagues will be playing for a championship. Let’s hope this matchup will live up to the hype that is surrounding it.
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