World Series Selections

The World Series starts on Friday night in Canada of all places and it will be the first time the Toronto Blue Jays have made it this far since 1993. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Dodgers are looking for back to back titles after sweeping the Milwaukee Brewers. This should be a fun series and I feel I have a couple of ways you can go about betting the Fall Classic. I will start with odds to be the World Series MVP. Of course we should start with Shohei Ohtani who was magnificent in the NLCS and he's sitting at +180 and not much value as you would expect. If you want to take a couple value plays on the Toronto side V. Guerrero is 6/1 and is batting .422 with 6 homers in the postseason & the hero from Game 7 George Springer is 10/1 and has 5 doubles and 4 dingers in the postseason. However my play is the Dodgers Freddie Freeman at 9/1. Now up until that 3 HR game Ohtani had not done much for LA and Freeman is due to bust out just like he did last year in the World Series against the NY Yankees. Freeman has just 1 RBI (a homer) this postseason but last year he had hits in every game and that included the game winning Grand Slam in Game 1. Freeman also had RBI's in every game and ended up with 12 in the series. He's just waiting for this opportunity so at 9/1 on this team that's my play and my value play at the same time for MVP of the 2025 World Series. As for who wins it, I'll take a prop play with the Dodgers -1.5 games at -115. We could go on and on about their offense , but when the dust clears they will win this series by 2 games or more because of their pitching. Aside from Ohtani's brilliant performance the other night the rest of their starters have been dominant in the postseason. 32 year old Tyler Glasnow has an ERA of 0.68 in this years postseason, Y. Yamamoto had a complete game shutout of the Brewers and he's carrying a 1.83 ERA versus the Phillies and Milwaukee in the postseason. Finally, the unsung player of this staff is a healthy Blake Snell who has 28K's in 21 innings of work in 3 starts and a 0.86 ERA. These numbers are insane and i just don't see them changing much. Toronto will put up a fight, and maybe this goes 6 (MAYBE) but it will be the Dodgers repeating in the end.