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It didn’t take long for the Los Angeles Dodgers to return to being the World Series favorites.
Following a sweep in their National League Wild Card Series, the Dodgers are +360 favorites to win the World Series via the latest odds at the BetMGM online sportsbook. The Philadelphia Phillies briefly passed the Dodgers during the final week of the regular season, but the market is now back to the way it was for much of the year.
Los Angeles, which began with a +400 price tag when this market opened last October, had been the favorite ever since then until this past week. The Dodgers now have an implied probability of 21.74% of repeating as World Series champions based on their latest odds.
The New York Yankees, who lost to the Dodgers in last year’s Fall Classic, have the second-best odds to win it all at +475 for an implied probability of 17.39%. The Phillies are +500 (16.67%) ahead of their showdown with the Dodgers in the NL Division Series.
Entering this weekend’s action, all eight teams are 10/1 or better to win the World Series. The Seattle Mariners (+550), Chicago Cubs (+750), Milwaukee Brewers (+750), Toronto Blue Jays (+800) and Detroit Tigers (+1000) round out the field.
In addition, BetMGM offers a World Series MVP odds market as another way to bet on which team will win it all and which player will lead the way.
Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani is the betting favorite at +800 after starting the playoffs with a +750 value. This comes after he began as a +900 front-runner last postseason before Freddie Freeman won the award.
Aaron Judge (+1200), Cal Raleigh (+1400), Kyle Schwarber (+1700), Bryce Harper (+1700), Tarik Skubal (+2200), Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (+2500), Mookie Betts (+2800), Christian Yelich (+3000), Giancarlo Stanton (+3000), Jackson Chourio (+3000) and William Contreras (+3000) make up the top of the World Series MVP market.
Both futures markets will be updated throughout the Division Series, which gets underway with four Game 1s on Saturday.
The Brewers are -120 favorites to defeat the Cubs, meaning a $12 wager would net $10 for them to win the series. The Phillies might have home-field advantage, but the Dodgers are also -120 to win their NLDS matchup.
In the AL, the Yankees are -155 favorites to top the Blue Jays as the lower seed. The Mariners are also -185 to advance past the Tigers.
BetMGM also offers a variety of markets within each series, such as total games, series score, and stat leaders for each matchup. Most of those markets will be updated throughout this round.
The first game of the Division Series will begin with a Cubs-Brewers matchup at 2:08 p.m. ET on Saturday on TBS.
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