Ohtani, Vlad ... and then who? Player rankings and superlatives for the 2025 World Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers are the overwhelming favorites to triumph the 2025 World Series and go the archetypal repetition champion successful a 4th century.

That doesn't mean they've cornered each the endowment successful this year's Fall Classic.

In fact, the American League champion Toronto Blue Jays diagnostic 2 of the apical 3 players heading into the bid and astir fractional of our apical 20.

Let's excavation into the stars -- ranking the champion of the bid participants connected however bully I deliberation they'll beryllium successful this bid and predicting who volition instrumentality location immoderate superlatives by the clip the particulate settles.

Top 20 players successful the World Series

1. Shohei Ohtani, SP/DH, Dodgers

Ohtani enactment up a combined 9.4 WAR successful the regular play and is simply a immense favourite to triumph the National League MVP again. Then, helium one-upped himself with 1 of the top diversion performances of each time: six scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts and 3 location runs successful the clinching crippled of the NL Championship Series.

2. Vladimir Guerrero Jr., 1B, Blue Jays

Guerrero had a large regular play -- 3.9 WAR contempt the sixth-worst ball-in-play luck successful the league -- but has been achromatic blistery successful the playoffs, starring postseason players successful astir large violative categories.

3. George Springer, DH, Blue Jays

Springer led the Jays successful WAR successful the regular season, has been precise bully this postseason and his iconic ALCS Game 7 homer volition unrecorded on.

4. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, SP, Dodgers

All 4 of the Dodgers' starting pitchers are connected a heater, but Yamamoto was the champion of the radical successful the regular play by a batch and 1 of the apical 5 pitchers successful baseball.

5. Blake Snell, SP, Dodgers

Snell missed the archetypal two-thirds of the play with enarthrosis inflammation but came backmost looking arsenic bully arsenic ever. He mightiness beryllium connected the champion tally of his vocation close now, with a 0.86 ERA successful 3 playoff starts and the second-best underlying numbers (xFIP and xERA) successful the playoffs among starters, down Detroit's Tarik Skubal.

6. Mookie Betts, SS, Dodgers

Betts, a wide aboriginal Hall of Famer, is 33 years aged and has mislaid the standout powerfulness from his highest years but is inactive an interaction player.

7. Freddie Freeman, 1B, Dodgers

One of the astir consistently elite hitters of this era, Freeman conscionable keeps performing -- and helium has a past of coming up ample successful the playoffs.

8. Alejandro Kirk, C, Blue Jays

Kirk was softly the second-best all-around catcher successful the league this twelvemonth down Seattle's

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