Elias Meredith's 2025 All-World Series Team
- emeredith55
- Nov 10, 2025
- 5 min read
by Elias Meredith 11/10/25 Sportz Nation
The 2025 World Series was an exciting one. This series was filled with big performances by players that many did not expect to see. To pay tribute, I compiled an All-World Series Team to recognize the best performers from each position.
Starting Pitcher: Yoshinobu Yamamoto
World Series Statistics: 3-0, 17.2 IP, 1.02 ERA, 15 K
If there was a voting committee for this list, Yamamoto would be the first ballot. The 27-year-old won World Series MVP after several heroic performances throughout the postseason to lead his club to a title.
Yamamoto’s last two appearances of the 2025 season will go down in history as one of the greatest back-to-back performances ever.
A day after throwing 96 pitches in Game 6 in a victory. Yamamoto shut the door on Game 7, propelling the Dodgers to a World Series championship, and won the World Series MVP in the process becoming the second Japan-born player to do so since Hideki Matsui achieved the feat in 2009.
Catcher: Alejandro Kirk
World Series Statistics:. 304 AVG, 2 HR, 6 RBI, .980 OPS
Standing 5’8”, 245 pounds, Alejandro Kirk does not have the frame of what anybody would expect of a professional athlete. Kirk’s build even fooled security guards at times, who have stopped the Blue Jays all-star at player entrances to check his identification before letting him in.
After the Blue Jays postseason run, Kirk should have to go through that anymore. Kirk reached base safely in five of the seven games and collected three multi-hit games in the process.
In Game 1, Kirk had one of his best games of his career. The 27-year-old would reach base safely all four times (three hits and a walk). One of those hits was a two-run blast to cap off a nine-run inning for the Blue Jays.
After an average past two seasons at the dish, Alejandro Kirk has had a bounce back year at the dish. A great way to start the first year of a new contract.
1st Baseman: Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
World Series Statistics: .333 AVG, 2 HR, 3 RBI, 1.074 OPS
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. showed why he makes the big bucks this season. What a great way to start the first year of a 14-year extension. After having a season where he was selected to his fifth consecutive All-Star Game, Guerrero carried his club to the Fall Classic.
Guerrero finished the postseason with more hits than strikeouts. The bat to ball skills seen from Guerrero this postseason are rare to see out of a power guy. If the Blue Jays would have won the World Series, Guerrero would have become the first player to win the ALCS MVP and World Series MVP, since Jeremy Peña did it for the Astros in 2022.
2nd Baseman: Bo Bichette
World Series Statistics: .348 AVG, 1 HR, 6 RBI, .923 OPS
Bo Bichette has been a stud for the Blue Jays since his debut in 2019. The Orlando native has consistently shown his ability to perform at the highest level.
In 2025, Bichette was looking to bounce back from an unusual season where he battled two separate injuries. Eventually, those injuries ended Bichette’s season, limiting the Blue Jays all-star 81 games in 2024.
Bichette remained healthy the majority of the 2025 season, playing in his most games since 2022. He was producing career highs in batting average (.311) and OPS (.840).
On September 6, Bichette was diagnosed with a left knee sprain after a home plate collision. He would not return until the World Series, and would not skip a beat. He would have more hits than strikeouts after missing a month and a half of baseball, and delivered a huge three-run home run to put the Blue Jays on the board in Game 7.
3rd Baseman: Ernie Clement
World Series Statistics: .387 AVG, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .859 OPS
Before the 2025 postseason, Ernie Clement was another name in the lineup. In the regular season, he provided great defense for the Blue Jays, and was a solid bottom of the lineup player. Offensively, Clement was a tough out. He would put the ball in play often and had a very low whiff percentage, but not many barrels.
In the postseason, Clement elevated his game, and made a huge contribution to the Blue Jays deep postseason run. Not only was he continuing to flash the leather at the hot corner, he had elite production at the dish.
Clement finished the postseason with 30 hits, which is a MLB record for the most hits in a single postseason. Clement also had a 13-game hitting streak to end the postseason, and in that streak he had seven multi-hit games.
Shortstop: Andrés Giménez
World Series Statistics: .148 AVG, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .435 OPS
Both shortstops did not perform well in the Fall Classic, but Gimenez gets the slight edge. Gimenez played clean defensively, showing why he was a platinum glove winner in 2023.
Left Fielder: Kiké Hernandez
World Series Statistics: .179 AVG, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .458 OPS
Both left fielders struggled in the World Series, but the now three-time World Series champion will get the nod. Kike Hernandez did not hit well, but he played well defensively, and had one of the biggest defensive plays of the series in Game 6.
In the bottom of the ninth, runners on second and third, one out, the Blue Jays were threatening to tie the game, and extend the game to extra innings. Andres Gimenez floated a broken bat liner to Hernandez in left field. Hernandez read it well off the bat as he snagged the shallow liner, and threw back to second double off Alex Barger to push the series to Game 7.
Center Fielder: Daulton Varsho
World Series Statistics: .161 AVG, 1 HR, 2 RBI, .580 OPS
Daulton Varsho was the only player that stayed in center field for the entirety of the series between the two teams. While he did not perform well offensively, he did show why he was a gold glove award winner, as he played a lockdown center field for the Blue Jays throughout the postseason.
Right Fielder: Addison Barger
World Series Statistics: .480 AVG, 1 HR, 5 RBI, 1.216 OPS
Addison Barger got hot at the right time for his club. Throughout the regular season, Barger showed flashes of potential in his first full season in the big leagues. The Washington state native hit 21 home runs in 2025, and showed off his cannon of arm on several occasions throughout the season, but when the postseason came around, Barger gave the Blue Jays organization reasons to keep an eye on him.
Barger would reach safely in six of the seven World Series games. In all those games where he was on base, he collected multiple hits in all them. He finished the World Series with a team-high 1.216 OPS, and hitting the first pinch-hit grand slam in MLB postseason history.
Designated Hitter: Shohei Ohtani
World Series Statistics: .333 AVG, 3 HR, 5 RBI, 1.278 OPS
Shohei Ohtani struggled at the plate throughout the postseason, but when he got to the World Series, he flipped the switch.
Ohtani reached base safely in six of the seven games, and had hits in five of them. One of the best single game performances in MLB history. In Game 3, Ohtani would reach base nine times in nine plate appearances. He would go 4-4 with two home runs and five walks.
Ohtani is one of the few players in the league, who is feared even when he is cold. He is an impact player, and one of the best to ever do it, and he is only 31.
Thank you for reading!
Elias Meredith (@EAM_55)
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