Juan Soto discusses Mets’ failure despite lofty expectations for 2025
After the Mets were eliminated from playoff contention on the season’s final day, Juan Soto discussed what went wrong on Sept. 28, 2025, in Miami.
Then there were two.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays will square off in the 2025 World Series, with Game 1 starting this Friday night from the Rogers Centre in Toronto at 8 p.m.
These two franchises have had two completely different paths getting to this year’s Fall Classic. The Dodgers have been merely unstoppable, winning nine of 10 games this postseason, including five straight that featured a four-game sweep over the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series (NLCS) — the team with the best record in the National League this season — where Shohei Ohtani had one of the most memorable and greatest performances in playoff history to send Los Angeles back to the World Series for a second consecutive season.
Then you have the Blue Jays, who cruised to their first division title in a decade and the best record in the American League this season. In a best-of-five series, Toronto continued its dominance over the Yankees and then rallied from a 3-2 series deficit to defeat the Seattle Mariners in a classic seven-game series in the American League Championship Series (ALCS).
The ALCS victory marks the first American League pennant for the Blue Jays since 1993, when they won back-to-back World Series.
Will the Dodgers become the first team (1999-2000 Yankees) in a quarter century to repeat as World Series champions, or can the Blue Jays pull off a massive upset and end their three-decade long title drought?
Our prognosticators are: Pete Caldera (Yankees/MLB columnist, NorthJersey.com), Andrew Tredinnick (Mets/MLB columnist, NorthJersey.com), Art Stapleton (Giants/NFL writer, NorthJersey.com), Bert Bainbridge (sports trending reporter/columnist, NorthJersey.com), Brian Marron (digital producer, NorthJersey.com), Chris Iseman (Rutgers writer, NorthJersey.com), Bob Jordan (sports editor, Asbury Park Press/APP.com) and Dave Rivera (sports editor, USA TODAY Northeast/NorthJersey.com).
Here are our staff predictions on who win this year’s Fall Classic between the Dodgers and Blue Jays and be named World Series MVP:
Pete Caldera
The pick: Blue Jays in 7
World Series MVP: Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Andrew Tredinnick
The pick: Dodgers in 6
World Series MVP: Teoscar Hernandez
Bert Bainbridge
The pick: Blue Jays in 6
World Series MVP: George Springer
Brian Marron
The pick: Dodgers in 6
World Series MVP: Mookie Betts
Bob Jordan
The pick: Dodgers in 4
World Series MVP: Shohei Ohtani
Art Stapleton
The pick: Dodgers in 5
World Series MVP: Shohei Ohtani
Chris Iseman
The pick: Dodgers in 6
World Series MVP: Shohei Ohtani
Dave Rivera
The pick: Dodgers in 6
World Series MVP: Shohei Ohtani