MLB Win Totals: Best Bets to Make Before Upcoming 2025 Season

The 2025 MLB season is quickly approaching, and with that it's time to look at a few teams who should surprise us all if the projections laid out by oddsmakers are any indication.

We'll take a look at a couple of promising American League teams with room to grow along with one National League team which enters the season overrated as we preview the MLB Futures market.

All odds via FanDuel as of March 2, 2025.

Boston Red Sox Over 86.5 Wins (-106)

Many will see this number and think it makes no sense. After all, the Red Sox won just 81 games last season and lost a big bat in Tyler O'Neill while the New York Yankees arguably got stronger despite losing Juan Soto.

• Well, I'm here to say the Red Sox are a team to watch this season.

Andrew Bailey has done a wonderous job with this pitching staff, and now he's got three talented arms to play with in Garrett Crochet, Lucas Giolito and Walker Buehler. He was able to craft Tanner Houck and even Cooper Criswell into useful starters last season, so you have to be excited about what he may be able to do here.

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Pitching has been the backbone of the Red Sox in the last year or so, but now this offense has a chance to get themselves into the top half of the league with Alex Bregman stepping in to man third base and Triston Casas ready for a full season. I'm not convinced the Baltimore Orioles will be quite as good this season with questions in the rotation, and the Red Sox may even find a way to push for the division crown.

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Detroit Tigers Over 83.5 Wins (-108)

The Detroit Tigers have a glaring weakness against left-handed pitching, and while that's unlikely to change with so many lefties in the order I'm not quite sure it will matter.

That's because, like Boston, this team's pitching staff was able to make lemonade from lemons a season ago and around developing some young talents resurrected the career of Jack Flaherty.

Well, Flaherty is back and Detroit is looking primed to unleash an even-stronger stable if Jackson Jobe is able to tap into even a fraction of his potential this season. With Tommy Kahnle joining an already-strong bullpen, it's just a matter of whether or not this team will hit.

Gleyber Torres is coming off a strong second half with the New York Yankees a year ago, and will help balance out a young lineup which gained some invaluable experience a season ago in the postseason. Kerry Carpenter is also fully healthy after missing a good portion of time in the second half of the year, and Dillon Dingler may wind up stealing away some playing time after making some quality contact last year.

I think the sky's the limit for this team as many young prospects grow into their own offensively, and Detroit's run to the postseason was anything but a fluke.

Milwaukee Brewers Under 82.5 Wins (+100)

We have to be negative about one team here, and the Milwaukee Brewers have caught my eye.

I'm not quite sure how this team won 91 games a year ago, but that should all change in 2025. Milwaukee was driven by a strong first half, and in a similar story to years past it fell apart in the second half due to the fact that it's simply not a good offensive ballclub.

Pitching has helped this team in the past, but that's unlikely to happen again with only Freddy Peralta remaining from a once-strong rotation. As he approaches 29, he's yet to realize his full potential and fix his issues with command, and after him there's little hope to be found.

Tobias Myers had a strong close to the season in a limited sample, but he's a one-pitch pitcher and prior to his nice stretch had looked to be in way over his head. Nestor Cortes won't find it easy to pitch to fly balls in Milwaukee, meaning his struggles doing so in New York should continue, and we're still not sure if Brandon Woodruff will pitch in the first half -- or how good he'll look considering it's been almost two years since we've seen him.

Milwaukee could easily become a seller at the deadline; it already shipped away Devin Williams over the winter. It has a few undeniable talents atop the order, but the rest of this roster looks shaky at best.

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