The 2025 Major League Baseball season is into its first week and teams are already positioning themselves for a shot at capturing a World Series Championship in early November. Apologies for the late start on this; White’s World Unplugged has been preoccupied with covering Duke, Houston, Florida and Auburn “matriculate” in their respective quests for a college basketball national championship. The Final Four matchups, which start Saturday, look terrific. Auburn vs Florida at 5:09 PM CT on CBS, and Duke vs Houston at 7:49 P.M. CT on CBS. Florida is a 2 1/2 point favorite over Auburn, and Duke is a 4 1/2 point favorite over Houston.
Previews and Predictions for that stellar event at the Alamodome in San Antonio on this Blog tomorrow, Thursday.
The Masters commences next Thursday, April 10th, and it will be an epic weekend of golf starting Thursday, April 10th and continuing through Sunday, April 13th, with one highly skilled golfer donning a Green Jacket and capturing the coveted major at approximately 6:30 P.M. CT. It could be Scheffler, Mcilroy, DeChambeau, Rahm, or a host of others. Will have that preview/prediction next Wednesday, April 9th.
Here are White’s World’s predictions for the 2025 MLB season. There are 6 teams in each league that qualify for the playoffs. The top two seeds in each league get a bye and the other four teams in each league play a best of three Wild Card Series with No. 3 playing No.6 and No.4 playing No.5. The higher seeds have home field advantage throughout the Wild Card series. The home team in the World Series is decided by which team has the best regular season record.
Here are predictions for these October/November matchups.
American League
(Numbers are for seeding. i.e. The Yankees are No.1 in AL, and the Dodgers are No.1 in NL).
East Division Champion: 1.Yankees
Central: 3.KC Royals
West: 2.Texas Rangers
Wild Cards 4. Tampa Rays 5. Orioles 6. Red Sox
National League
East: 2. Phillies
Central: 3. Cardinals
West: 1. Dodgers
Wild Cards: 4. Padres, 5. Giants, 6. Mets
AL Wild Card Round
Red Sox over Royals in 3; Rays over O’s in 3
AL Divisional Series
Yankees over Rays in 5; Rangers over Red Sox in 4.
AL Championship Series
Yankees over Rangers in 7
NL Wild Card
Mets over Cards in 3; Padres over Giants in 3.
NL Divisional Series
Dodgers over Padres in 4; Phillies over Mets in 4
NL Championship Series
Phillies over Dodgers in 7, in an upset
The 2025 World Series
I’ll take Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies to win their 3rd Fall Classic in franchise history. The other two championships were over the Royals in 1980, and over the Rays in 2008.
Phillies over the Yankees in 7
World Series MVP
Bryce Harper
7 Responses
It can’t get any worse for the Braves. There are 5 or 6 teams that could win the NL pennant, the Phillies, Dodgers and Mets definitely have the talent to get it done. The City of Brotherly Love could very well be holding the Vince Lombardi and the Commissioner’s trophy at the same time.
Good point, WP. Could very well be.
They are holding both World Championship trophies now. I am impressed by the players and their confidence in the torpedo bat. Is it more confidence or ? I don’t think it matters. Most players will be giving it a try now.
Nice piece DW. I got the Yanks Mets Rangers and DBacks in my 4 man pool. I am worried the Chavez Ravine boys are too powerful. Give me AU over Fla Duke over the Cougars…
Thanks, Guys. Torpedo Bats are a force, SMU. You got it, Bama G.
Great summary. Rays have a tough road ahead but they’ve been known to scrape it out. Having to play home games at Legends Field/ Yankees Spring site and A ball,… challenging. Torpedo bat will be interesting to see,… long season. Thx.
Thanks, Staige. Anything to enhance hitting, I’m all for.