2025 World Series Odds: Dodgers Lead, Tigers Surge

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00:00DRS and our World Series Market Movement Board.

00:03We showed you the three frontrunners entering the year and where their odds have changed.

00:06The Dodgers, still a short favorite.

00:08The Yankees, who had the best price of any AL team, now even shorter at 6-1, playing really good baseball.

00:14The Braves have seen some movement against them, but only by $5.50, which is a little bit surprising,

00:20as Atlanta started 0-7 and is still two games sub-500.

00:24But those bottom three teams, that is the biggest movement around Major League Baseball.

00:29Let's start with the good, right?

00:30Let's highlight the positive.

00:32The Detroit Tigers, the best record in all of MLB, 35-20, a full game advantage in the AL

00:39over the New York Yankees and a full game advantage also over the Philadelphia Phillies

00:44for that best mark in Major League Baseball.

00:47The Detroit Tigers have plenty of young talent offensively, and at this moment, DRS,

00:52they've got the best pitcher in baseball in Tarek Skubal, the reigning American League Cy Young winner,

00:56who had one of the gems of his career over the weekend for Detroit,

01:00and continues to look the part of that best pitcher, the best ace in all of MLB.

01:04Yeah, in a short series, you don't want to face really good pitching,

01:07and he's a really good pitcher that you're going to face right off the bat at that point.

01:10But also understand this, you're looking at a lineup that over the past couple years had talent,

01:14but just couldn't put it together.

01:15And you're also getting really good seasons by Javi Baez, one of those guys really cast off.

01:19Big name, free agent, let's sign him up and see what happens.

01:21And it really didn't work out.

01:23Now he's batting in the 9-hole and absolutely scorching the baseball on a day-to-day basis.

01:27He's got Glaber Torres in the 2-spot.

01:28But the important guys, the guys that you're building around,

01:31the Kerry Carpenters, the Cole Keiths, the Rodley Greens, the Spencer Torkelson,

01:34a high draft pick just a few short years ago, those guys are starting to hit.

01:37Coupled with a bullpen that's holding up, you've got a nice lineup with a great mix

01:41of left-handed batters and right-handed batters, and the front-end starting pitching.

01:44Why not?

01:45Like, we asked again last week on a poll, like,

01:47do you really think that Detroit is going to be one of those teams

01:49that you can contend for a championship?

01:51And off the bat, you probably just say no because it's Detroit, and what do you have?

01:54But look around Major League Baseball, which includes the American League.

01:57They're right up there with the Yankees.

01:58They can go toe-to-toe with the Yankees pitching.

02:00Now we'll see what some of the changes made by midseason at the trade deadline

02:03and towards the end of September with some of those call-ups.

02:05But for me, I really like what I see in the Detroit Tigers because why?

02:09Front-end pitching with talent starting to come about in the 1-9.

02:12It's a fun baseball team to watch, and they're playing great baseball to start the season.