2025 World Series Odds

2025 World Series Odds: Rangers Can Topple The Top Contendors

Baseball season is underway. So it's time to break down 2025 World Series odds.

The LA Dodgers +210 are once again heavy favorites to win the title this year, with the Phillies, Yankees and Mets rounding out the top at Caesars Sportsbook.

I'll break down if the Dodgers can actually repeat alongside my best 2025 World Series value picks, below:

  

2025 World Series Odds

Odds To Win MLB - World Series 2025
TeamsOdds
LA Dodgers+210
NY Yankees+900
Philadelphia Phillies+1000
NY Mets+1100
Atlanta Braves+1200
Baltimore Orioles+1600
Houston Astros+1600
Boston Red Sox+1800
Texas Rangers+2000
San Diego Padres+2200
Arizona Diamondbacks+2500
Chicago Cubs+2800
Seattle Mariners+3300
Detroit Tigers+3500
Minnesota Twins+3500
Cleveland Guardians+4000
Kansas City Royals+5000
Milwaukee Brewers+5000
San Francisco Giants+5000
Cincinnati Reds+6000
Tampa Bay Rays+6000
Toronto Blue Jays+6000
Pittsburgh Pirates+10000
St. Louis Cardinals+10000
Athletics+12500
LA Angels+15000
Washington Nationals+15000
Colorado Rockies+30000
Miami Marlins+30000
Chicago White Sox+40000

Odds as of April 5th, 2025 22:19pm EDT.

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Can The Dodgers Repeat as World Series Champs?

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 Blake Snell, re-upping slugger Teoscar Hernandez, and adding top international free agents in Roki Sasaki and Hye Seong Kim, Los Angeles started the season 8-0. They also have an elite back-end bullpen now, with Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates joining.

This is basically a perfect team (and have looked like it early in 2025), with the depth to survive big injuries anywhere. I don't expect the Dodgers to take any kind of step back.

Mets' Odds Are Overvalued After Massive Offseason

There was tons of betting action after the Mets signed Juan Soto to a 15-year, $765-million contract this offseason. I think the momentum has gotten a little high for New York, though, especially given the early-season injuries to the pitching.

They Mets are better than last year, for sure, but they haven't looked like a wagon on the field yet. With spring injuries to guys like Frankie Montas and Manaea, I think the lack of pitching depth is being exposed in Queens. I still think the Mets have the upside to compete, but I'm not taking them as a top-five WS contender.

World Series Odds Dark Horse: Texas Rangers

Floating around the top-10 in World Series odds, the Texas Rangers +2000 are great value in the market.

This is a team that has proven they can win a World Series, because they just did it two years. After a classic title hangover year in 2023, I'm all the way back in. The additions of Joc Pederson and Jake Burger make the offense even better. But, I'm really buying the pitching. Jacob deGrom looks elite and healthy to start the year and Jack Leiter is fulfilling his top prospect status. The 2025 Rangers can win it again and are great value in the odds.

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)

  • Los Angeles Dodgers 17.5%
  • New York Mets 8.7%
  • Philadelphia Phillies 8.6%

Most-Bet Teams (Total Money)

  • Los Angeles Dodgers 37.8%
  • New York Mets 9.4%
  • New York Yankees 7.7%

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Betting Strategy for World Series Futures

Evidence suggests waiting before placing World Series futures bets, but don't go with the chalk if you are keen on a pre-season wager. In the last 10 seasons, only three pre-season favorites (the 2020 and 2024 Dodgers and 2016 Cubs) have gone on to win the championship.

A middle-of-the-pack sweet spot has formed over the last decade or so. Four clubs (the 2017 Astros, the 2018 Red Sox, the 2021 Braves, and the 2022 Astros) all began their respective seasons with World Series odds between +1000 and +1200. I'd turn to those ranges for a pre-season bet in 2025.

Last 10 World Series Champions

Last 10 World Series Champions
YearWorld Series WinnerOpening Day Odds
2024Los Angeles Dodgers+350
2023Texas Rangers+3200
2022Houston Astros+1000
2021Atlanta Braves+1000
2020Los Angeles Dodgers+385
2019Washington Nationals+1600
2018Boston Red Sox+1150
2017Houston Astros+1175
2016Chicago Cubs+660
2015Kansas City Royals+3300
2014San Francisco Giants+2500
2013Boston 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

Teams with the Most World Series Titles
TeamNumber of World Series TitlesMost Recent World Series Title
New York Yankees272009
St. Louis Cardinals112011
Oakland/Philadelphia Athletics91989
Boston Red Sox92018
San Francisco Giants82014

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

Teams That Have Never Won A World Series
TeamHighest Finish
Colorado RockiesWorld Series (2007)
Milwaukee BrewersWorld Series (1982)
San Diego PadresWorld Series (1998)
Seattle MarinersALCS (2001)
Tampa Bay RaysWorld 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

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