MLB 2025 Review: Los Angeles Dodgers – ’25 World Series Champions
The 2025 MLB season ultimately belonged to the Los Angeles Dodgers, who survived a turbulent summer and still managed to repeat as World Series champions, edging the Toronto Blue Jays in a dramatic seven-game classic. Yoshinobu Yamamoto was the story of October, taking home World Series MVP after going 3–0 with a 1.02 ERA and even closing out an 11-inning Game 7 on the road.
What makes this title special is how un-linear the path was. The Dodgers started 8–0, hit a brutal midseason stretch where their bullpen imploded, then retooled on the fly before steamrolling the Brewers in the NLCS and outlasting Toronto’s powerful lineup in the Fall Classic.
By winning back-to-back titles, they became the first team to repeat since the 1998–2000 Yankees and the first NL club to do it since the 1970s Reds, cementing this core as a modern dynasty.
2025 MLB Biggest Surprise: Milwaukee Brewers
Plenty expected the Brewers to regress after losing key pieces like Willy Adames and churning much of their pitching staff. Instead, they not only repeated as NL Central champs but were “easily the best team in all of baseball” in wins and run differential during the regular season.
Milwaukee’s run prevention, depth arms, and a quietly efficient lineup turned them into a 100-win juggernaut this is what caused a lot of pundits to label them the “Most surprising team” of 2025.
They ultimately ran into the Dodger buzzsaw in October, but from an expectations standpoint, no club beat its preseason projections more convincingly.
2025 MLB Most Underperforming Team: Atlanta Braves
On the other end, the Atlanta Braves wore the “most disappointing team” label by year’s end.
Coming off years as a perennial powerhouse, they were widely picked as NL favorites, but injuries, a rotation that never stabilized, and stars failing to hit 2023 levels led to their first losing season since 2017.
Pundits have highlighted Atlanta above other letdowns like the Orioles, Rangers, Rays and Twins, noting how far reality fell from the “easy playoff lock” narrative.
For a club built to contend, simply hovering below .500 and watching October from home made the Braves the defining underachievers of 2025.
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