Inside the final month of the MLB regular season, the National League is dominating the top of the World Series odds leaderboard.
The latest: The three teams with the shortest championship odds, entering play on Sept. 15, are the three division leaders in the NL. Altogether, there are five teams with odds shorter than 10-to-1, including the Toronto Blue Jays.
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The favourite: Los Angeles Dodgers (+375)
The Dodgers had super-team potential entering the season, but they haven't lived up to that billing.
L.A. is playing at a 91-win pace, which would be its lowest win total since 2012. Since then, the Dodgers have won 12 of a possible 13 NL West titles and a pair of championships.
The reigning champions still have ample star power fit for a Hollywood-area club, led by two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani.
Offensively, Ohtani is at the centre of the Dodgers' success. But the returning depth behind the reigning NL MVP is staggering, too.
Seven of the Dodgers' top eight hitters from last season (in terms of bWAR) remain in the fold on offence.
On the mound, an ageless Clayton Kershaw and a resurgent Yoshinobu Yamamoto help fill out a rotation that also includes Ohtani and two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell.
L.A. is an embarrassment of riches on paper, but the pesky Padres, who are 2.5 games back in the NL West, could cost this club a bye.
The Dodgers do have the season-long tiebreak over the Padres, though, and the teams won't face each other again in the regular season.
Blue Jays World Series odds
Once 50-to-1 long shots, the Blue Jays (+900) have chipped away at their championship odds at a slow-and-steady pace.
Toronto is now the odds-on favourite to win the AL East, though the Yankees and Red Sox are nipping at its heels.
For a team that was projected to win 78-80 games, how did this happen?
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is still the MVP of the club, but he's not doing this alone.
George Springer (157 OPS+) has had an unbelievable bounce-back year in his age-35 season, while MLB hits leader Bo Bichette has done a superb job shaking off an injury-riddled 2024 campaign.
The veteran-laden pitching staff is fronted by three guys who are on track for 30-plus starts apiece: Kevin Gausman, Chris Bassitt and Jose Berrios. But the health of two other vets, Max Scherzer and Shane Bieber, means a lot for this team's October hopes, too.
Toronto hasn't won a playoff game since 2016, but the team is currently on track for a bye into the divisional round.
World Series notes
- The Yankees' +900 championship odds will look like a bargain if the team can steal the AL East. New York just took two of three games off Toronto in a recent series (Sept. 5-7), but is still four games back of the Jays, who have the tiebreaker. It's fair to wonder where the Yankees would be with a healthy Gerrit Cole, but a rotation led by Max Fried, Carlos Rodon and Luis Gil is still respectable.
- So last year's ALDS run by the Tigers (+1,000) wasn't a fluke, eh? Detroit looks like a lock to win the AL Central and is in a good spot to grab a first-round bye. The Tigers weren't as splashy as some had hoped at the deadline, though, adding a pair of middle-to-back-end starters and Nationals closer Kyle Finnegan.
- The Brewers (+750) have the best record in baseball, and their odds finally align with a championship-calibre team. Milwaukee's roster isn't loaded with household names, but the offence has the second-highest wRC+ in the second half (124), and the pitching staff has the second-lowest ERA in the same span (3.57).
