I like to suggest that people without a favorite team in the playoffs root for the one that’s gone the longest without a championship. Here is the 2025 list, team and last time they won, or in the case of some of the expansion teams, the year they first appeared in the majors:

• Cleveland Guardians/Indians 1948
• San Diego Padres 1969
• Milwaukee Brewers 1969 (as the Seattle Pilots)
• Seattle Mariners 1977
• Detroit Tigers 1984
• Cincinnati Reds 1990
• Toronto Blue Jays 1993
• Philadelphia Phillies 2008
• New York Yankees 2009
• Chicago Cubs 2016
• Boston Red Sox 2018
• Los Angeles Dodgers 2024

Of course, you could also root for a repeat which hasn’t happened since the Yankees won three in a row at the end of the last century. Seven of the twelve teams have gone more than 30 years without a championship, so it would be nice if one of them ended the drought.