ESPN.com · Sep 8, 2025
Real or not: Why each 2025 MLB contender can (or can't) win it all
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Does anyone want to win the World Series? Is any MLB team going to step up and make itself the postseason favorite? In what is shaping up as the most wide-open postseason in recent history, every playoff team or contender is either scuffling, facing key injury issues or just suffered one of the craziest defeats of the past 60 years (we mean you, Los Angeles Dodgers).
How upside down is the baseball world right now? Two of the best teams since the All-Star break have been the Athletics and Pittsburgh Pirates. The Dodgers have only two more wins than the Colorado Rockies since the break. We're definitely headed for a wild and unpredictable October.