MLB playoffs preview: World Series odds, why every team could win -- and fatal flaws for all 12 teams

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Sep 28, 2025, 06:28 PM ET

Wow, what an astonishing decorativeness to the MLB regular season! Now it's your turn, October.

The 2025 MLB playoffs commencement Tuesday (1 p.m. ET connected ESPN), and we're present to get you acceptable for what is mounting up to beryllium a thrilling postseason.

Will Shohei Ohtani's Los Angeles Dodgers conscionable Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees successful a World Series rematch? Is this the twelvemonth the Seattle Mariners and Milwaukee Brewers yet get to the Fall Classic? Will the Philadelphia Phillies marque different heavy tally aft a beardown regular season? Or volition the chaos that ruled September proceed to reign?

MLB experts Jorge Castillo, Bradford Doolittle, Alden Gonzalez, Jeff Passan and David Schoenfield get you acceptable with likelihood for each round, wherefore each squad could triumph it each -- oregon spell location aboriginal -- and a sanction to ticker for connected each 12 World Series hopefuls.

Note: World Series and matchup likelihood travel from Doolittle's look utilizing powerfulness ratings arsenic the ground for 10,000 simulations to find the astir apt outcomes. Team temperatures are based connected Bill James' look for determining however "hot" oregon "cold" a squad is astatine immoderate fixed point; mean is 72°.

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