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Alex Rodriguez has surprising answer about what Yankees need most to end World Series drought
The Dodgers, who beat the Yankees in the 2024 World Series and on Saturday became the first club to win back-to-back titles since the 1998-2000 Yankees, “have become the class of baseball,” Rodriguez said. Whether the Yankees do enough this offseason to catch up to them remains to be seen.
The back-to-back World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers have the shortest odds to win next year's Fall Classic at +370 ($100 bet win $370), per DraftKings Sportsbook, followed by the New York Yankees at +750.
The New York Yankees are already emerging as favorites for the 2026 World Series, long before they take the field for Opening Day.
The Yankees have the second-best odds to win the 2026 World Series, but offseason uncertainty clouds their chances of dethroning the Dodgers.
Mattingly played for the Yankees for 14 years from 1982 until his retirement in 1995, a famously conspicuous tenure in which the Yankees did not make the World Series (they appeared in 1981 and 1996, the year before and the year after Mattingly).
The Dodgers are now tied for the third-most World Series championships in MLB history after defeating the Blue Jays in the 2025 Fall Classic. Here's a look at all nine titles.
The New York Yankees enter the offseason facing key decisions about how to reshape a roster that once again fell short in October, extending their World Series drought to 16 years. After a 94-win campaign that ended in a disappointing ALDS exit to the Toronto Blue Jays,
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