Baseball season is underway. So it's time to break down 2025 World Series odds.
The LA Dodgers +250 are once again heavy favorites to win the title this year, with the Yankees, Tigers, and Phillies rounding out the top teams at Sportsbook.
2025 World Series Odds
| Teams | Odds |
|---|---|
| LA Dodgers | +250 |
| NY Yankees | +600 |
| Detroit Tigers | +800 |
| NY Mets | +1000 |
| Philadelphia Phillies | +1100 |
| Chicago Cubs | +1600 |
| Atlanta Braves | +2000 |
| Seattle Mariners | +2000 |
| Houston Astros | +2200 |
| San Diego Padres | +2200 |
Odds as of May 31st, 2025 18:33pm EDT. |
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Who Is Favored To Win the 2025 World Series?
The Dodgers have everything they need to steamroll back to a World Series in 2025. Los Angeles was expected to be the best team in baseball coming into 2024 and ended up being exactly that, winning the title. But, it's not like they played their best baseball all year. The Dodgers still had to work through significant injuries to Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Mookie Betts, Tyler Glasnow, and others. With top talent and elite depth, they still came out on top.
This year, I think the Dodgers are even better. After signing two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell, re-upping slugger Teoscar Hernandez, and adding top international free agents in Roki Sasaki and Hyeseong Kim, Los Angeles started the season off to a big NL West lead. They also have an elite back-end bullpen now, with Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates joining.
This is essentially a perfect team (and has looked like it early in 2025), with the depth to withstand significant injuries anywhere. I don't expect the Dodgers to take any kind of step back, though the Padres are pressing them for the NL West lead. We'll see how long this holds up, but for now the Dodgers are the kings of MLB.
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World Series Odds Dark Horse: Chicago Cubs
Floating around the top 10 in World Series odds, the Chicago Cubs +1600 are great value in the market.
After a playoff drought since 2020, the Cubs have revitalized their roster, notably acquiring Kyle Tucker, who is bordering on an MVP-caliber performance this year. The offense is further bolstered by emerging talents like Pete Crow-Armstrong and Matt Shaw, contributing to the team's strong standing atop the NL Central.
If the Cubs can solidify their pitching staff, they have the potential to make a deep postseason run
World Series Odds Betting Handle & Public Trends
Bettors LOVE the Dodgers. Can you blame them? As I broke down, they're basically a perfect baseball team. But this is also a weird sport where anything can happen. The Dodgers nearly lost to a far worse Padres team last October, before squeezing by on some bullpen games and winning the World Series.
While a vast majority of the bets and the money are on Los Angeles to repeat, I think the books are probably pretty happy to take all that action. We haven't had a repeat title winner in MLB since the Yankees in 2000.
Most-Bet Teams (Total Bets)
- Dodgers 15.8%
- Phillies 9.4%
- Yankees 7.7%
Most-Bet Teams (Total Money)
- Dodgers 32.4%
- Mets 8.7%
- Phillies 7.9%
Last 10 World Series Champions
| Year | World Series Winner | Opening Day Odds |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Los Angeles Dodgers | +350 |
| 2023 | Texas Rangers | +3200 |
| 2022 | Houston Astros | +1000 |
| 2021 | Atlanta Braves | +1000 |
| 2020 | Los Angeles Dodgers | +385 |
| 2019 | Washington Nationals | +1600 |
| 2018 | Boston Red Sox | +1150 |
| 2017 | Houston Astros | +1175 |
| 2016 | Chicago Cubs | +660 |
| 2015 | Kansas City Royals | +3300 |
| 2014 | San Francisco Giants | +2500 |
| 2013 | Boston Red Sox | +2800 |
The biggest long shot to win the World Series in the last decade was the 2015 Kansas City Royals. The '23 Rangers weren't far behind either, with +3200 odds to win the championship.
The Royals were coming off a season in which they dominated all the way to the World Series (not losing a single playoff game on the AL side of the bracket) and then pushed the eventual champion Giants to seven games for the title. However, they weren’t getting much respect in preseason odds the next year as KC’s +3300 Opening Day odds to win the title placed the team 17th on the board at the time.
MLB Teams with the Most World Series Titles
| Team | Number of World Series Titles | Most Recent World Series Title |
|---|---|---|
| New York Yankees | 27 | 2009 |
| St. Louis Cardinals | 11 | 2011 |
| Oakland/Philadelphia Athletics | 9 | 1989 |
| Boston Red Sox | 9 | 2018 |
| San Francisco Giants | 8 | 2014 |
The New York Yankees have won the most World Series in MLB history. However, it's been a while since the Bronx Bombers added to their total. The Yankees last won a World Series in 2009, defeating the Phillies in six games.
MLB Teams That Have Never Won a World Series
| Team | Highest Finish |
|---|---|
| Colorado Rockies | World Series (2007) |
| Milwaukee Brewers | World Series (1982) |
| San Diego Padres | World Series (1998) |
| Seattle Mariners | ALCS (2001) |
| Tampa Bay Rays | World Series (2020) |
Five MLB franchises have yet to win a World Series. The Seattle Mariners are the only team that’s never even been to a World Series final despite having some of the league’s best-ever players like Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar Martinez, and Ichiro Suzuki.
World Series Betting Trends
- Eight Wild Card teams have gone on to win the World Series (15 have made it)
- Nine teams in MLB history have made a manager change midseason and gone on to make the World Series (including the 2022 Phillies)
- Eight of the last 11 World Series have gone at least six games
- There has been only one World Series sweep since 2010
- No league (AL or NL) has won more than four World Series in a row since 1979-1982
