The 2025 World Series begins Friday, with the Los Angeles Dodgers visiting the Toronto Blue Jays . A popular gambling angle heading into the series will be World Series MVP.

It's a fun enough shot in the dark. In a small sample of a series, it's anyone's guess. We've seen plenty of stars and even superstars over the years win the hardware, such as Freddie Freeman , Corey Seager , Stephen Strasburg , David Ortiz, Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera. That's a diverse enough cast of stars on its own, but then you need to factor in when a good player who isn't a big star wins it, such as Jeremy Peña, Jorge Soler , Ben Zobrist or David Freese . Or how about when a role player takes it, like Steve Pearce did in 2018 or, going back to a Blue Jays title, Pat Borders in 1992?

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