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

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