The MLB postseason begins Tuesday. Who should you root for to win a World Series?
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October baseball is here a day early, with Major League Baseball's first postseason games scheduled to begin Tuesday afternoon.
It's a wide-open field this postseason with no clear favorites like last year's Los Angeles Dodgers. No team in baseball this year won more than 97 games, making the 2025 Milwaukee Brewers the losing-est winningest team in baseball since 2013 (not counting the pandemic-shortened 2020 season).
That means it's anybody's World Series title to claim — including, potentially, one of three franchises that have never before won the Fall Classic. We've got the coasts: New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego, Boston, Philadelphia. And we've got the Midwest: Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Detroit. We've even got Canada! (Sorry, Southerners.)
Still, with 12 teams in the mix, it can be a lot to sort out which to root for. Let us help.
Do you like rooting for a team that has never been here before? (In other words, are you a human with a heart?)
Of the five teams that have never won a World Series, the Seattle Mariners are the only to hav
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