The New York Yankees have looked like the best team in baseball this season, and now the betting markets are backing that up.
The Los Angeles Dodgers began the season as the World Series favorites and kept that title for the first three months, but the Yankees have surpassed them as the team to beat in the race for the championship, according to Compare.bet’s World Series champion consensus odds tracker.
The Yankees have a 20.55% chance of winning the World Series, followed by the Dodgers at 19.24%. The Houston Astros have the third-best odds at 15.33%.
The Yankees began the season with the fourth-best odds to win the championship, trailing the Dodgers, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Astros. But New York has been on fire since the start and currently boasts the best record in Major League Baseball at 60-23.
The Yankees are 5.5 games up on Houston to finish with the best record in the American League, and their league-best run-differential of plus-176 reminds us this is far from a fluke.
The Dodgers’ percentage chance to win the World Series peaked at 19.72% on June 20, but they haven’t fallen far, and could easily retake the mantle as the team to beat. Los Angeles has a record of 53-29 on the year and leads the New York Mets by 1.5 games for the best record in the National League.
Here are the percentage odds of winning the World Series for every team with a greater than 1% chance, according to Compare.bet:
Yankees: 20.55%
Dodgers: 19.24%
Astros: 15.33%
Mets: 12.43%
Blue Jays: 8.01%
Braves: 8.01%
Padres: 7.80%
Brewers: 6.50%
Cardinals: 3.86%
Red Sox: 3.56%
Rays: 3.46%
Giants: 3.36%
White Sox: 3.31%
Twins: 3.22%
Phillies: 2.78%
Guardians: 1.73%
Angels: 1.54%
