2025 World Series Predictions

Written by: The Sportsballers

Published: October 24, 2025

It's been five years since we've done a World Series prediction post on The Sportsballers. As we've reformated our show after our hiatus, we're also making an effort to generate more content on the website going forward.

Congratulations to the Dodgers and the Blue Jays for making it as far as two teams can go. The stage is set for a fun East/West showdown on the sport's biggest stage.

The Dodgers are a familiar face in late October at this point. They've just captured their second straight NL penant and their fifth in the last nine years. Coming off a series sweep against the Milwaukee Brewers, who finished the year with baseball's best record, they'll look to steal home field advantage with at least one win in the first two games of this series.

LA got off to a hot start this year, taking advantage of a home-heavy schedule to carry a 21-10 record into the month of May, tied with the Mets (lol, oh Mets) for the best record across both leagues. Though the second full month wasn't as kind to them, a 17-10 June found them again tied for the best record in baseball, this time with the Tigers.

The scariest portion of the season was the following two months, during which Los Angeles was three games below .500; though they were not in any real danger of falling out of the playoff race during the season's final month, the Cubs had surged into a tie with them for the third best record in the National League and the Phillies were looking like a wagon, a perception they did nothing to undermine in September.

This was the first time since 2018 the Dodgers did not enter the playoffs with one of the NL's top two win totals, but they've rolled through their playoff schedule with a 9-1 record thus far. Their only loss came in Game 3 of the NLDS, a disappointing 8-2 loss to the Phillies. They're as hot as a team could be entering the final series of the baseball season.

The Toronto Blue Jays, meanwhile, shared the best record in the American League with the Yankees and got to skip the wild card thanks to their one-game head-to-head advantage. It is the first time since 1992 and 1993 that they've even had a share of the league's best record. Not coincidentally, those were the last two time (and, in fact, the only two times) Toronto has been in the world series. They won both by 4-2 margins.

After a slow start to the season found them two games below .500 at the end of April, the worst subsequent month of Toronto's season came in August when they carried a 15-12 record. It's been a terrific summer for our neighbors up north.

Identically to the Dodgers, Toronto won the first two games of their division series against the Yankees, lost Game 3, and then won the series clincher a game later. Unlike their world series opponent, they got pushed to the brink in the league championship series.

The Dodgers gave up one run in every game of their NLCS sweep of the Brewers. The Blue Jays gave up multiple runs in all seven games of their ALCS victory against the Mariners and at least three runs in all but two games, finishing the series with a 37-30 run differential and preventing the Mariners from finally making it to a World Series.

That's enough set-up; let's get to each of our hosts' thoughts and picks for the series.

Los Angeles Dodgers vs Toronto Blue Jays

Game 1: Friday, October 24 at 8:00pm in Toronto, Ontario

Eric

The Blue Jays come into this showdown with their own impressive crew of heroes, so I'm not going to count them out completely. George Springer is back and ready to terrorize Los Angeles again, and Vladdy Jr. has been the talk of the postseason.

However, we just watched the Brewers roll into the playoffs and then hit a brick wall called the LA Dodgers.

Los Angeles has the MVPs and literally billions of dollars invested into their pitching staff, and they're not messing around this year. It's virtually impossible to pick against them.

I'm willing to give Toronto a couple of games because they've had great pitching of their own from Kevin Gausman and Trey Yesavage, but that's the best I can do.

My pick: Dodgers in 6

Evan

The Dodgers are inevitable.

Game 1 is in Toronto because the Blue Jays won one more game in the regular season in an American League that has never been easier for a non-Yankees team to win.

LA has the rest advantage: seven days compared to Toronto's four.

The Dodgers are starting 2018 AL Cy Young winner Blake Snell in Game 1 whereas the Jays' starter is someone called Trey Yesavage, who made his MLB debut 39 days ago.

It's blatently disrespectful to pick a sweep, so maybe Dodgers pitcher and hitter Shohei Ohtani will be nice enough to let Toronto get a game.

My pick: Dodgers in 5

Cory

I won't feign happiness for my team's division rival. While a part of me is happy the Yankees aren't in the world series this year after the political stances they've espoused this summer and early fall, there's no way I'm excited to see another AL East team here.

The Mariners have never made it to a World Series; they're the only team in all of baseball who hasn't been on this stage. Since they joined the fray in 1977, four other teams have been founded. The Rockies joined in 1993 and appeared in the 2007 World Series; the Marlins joined with the Rockies and have won the NL penant and World Series in 1997 and 2003; the Diamondbacks joined in 1998 and won the NL penant in 2001 and 2003, winning it all the first time; and the Rays joined at the same as the Dbacks and have won AL penants in 2008 and 2020, though they've fallen short in the World Series both time.

Meanwhile, the Jays themselves joined the same year as the Mariners and now get to make their third World Series appearance. I can't help but feel bad for our friends in the Pacific Northwest, especially when they held a 3-1 lead and were just eight outs away from the penant. Then George Springer happened.

While Springer had his moment in the series clincher, Shohei Ohtani had a series' worth of moments in the NLCS clincher. Six shutout innings with 10 strikeouts on the mound is a terrific day in itself, then he went an hit three dingers to make the performance legendary.

Offensively, the two teams are pretty evenly matched. Toronto has been the best team all season in batting average. But when you factor in slugging, where only the Yankees outperformed the Dodgers, it evens things out significantly.

Pitching favors LA pretty definitively. The Blue Jays were better at denying free passes to hitters, but virtually every other metric of importance favors the west coast team.

My pick: Dodgers in 6