The concept of a relaxing offseason is a foreign one to Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts.
After Betts, 33, and the Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays in a thrilling Game 7 to win their second-consecutive World Series on November 1, the 8-time All-Star has been a man on the move.
Betts spoke exclusively to Luxury Handbag Shopping on Thursday, November 13, just hours before he hit the stage in Las Vegas to cohost the 2025 MLB Awards with comedian Roy Wood Jr..
“I’m chilling, man,” Betts said. “I’m winging it. I didn’t ask for any help or anything.”
The show went off without a hitch, which saw Betts’ teammate Shohei Ohtani take home his second straight National League MVP Award.
After Betts and Ohtani, 31, won the World Series earlier this month, Betts said he immediately put on his other hat.
“You jump straight into being a Dad,” said Betts, who shares daughter Kynlee, 7, and son Kaj, 2, with his wife, Brianna Betts. “Not that you weren’t that before, but I’ve played a little golf and got to hang out with the fam. We went to Disneyland to celebrate my little girl’s birthday.”
Mookie, who has a private bowling alley inside his house, also said, “I bowl pretty much every day.”
This year’s World Series win marked the fourth of Mookie’s career — he also won in 2018 with the Boston Red Sox and in 2020 with the Dodgers — but explained that the victories keep getting sweeter as he’s able to share them with his family.
“My son loves sports now and he’s starting to get really into it,” Mookie said. “My daughter doesn’t really like sports that much, but she loves the glitz and the glamour. She loves being around all of the attention going on. We have an interesting dynamic on how this thing works. It’s a beautiful thing.”
The Dodgers’ World Series celebration and parade were the stuff of legend, with superstar first baseman Freddie Freeman doing the worm at a team party — which was captured by Mookie — and Kiké Hernández trolling Drake, a Blue Jays fan, in front of tens of thousands of Dodgers fans at Dodger Stadium.
One player who the Dodgers couldn’t convince to come out of his shell, however, was Ohtani.
“I don’t know that you can,” Mookie admitted. “I think he’s always someone that’s chill, kind of sits back. He gets so much attention, he probably doesn’t want any more attention. He usually just sits back and chills and lets us do our thing.”
Throughout the season, Mookie was candid about his problems at the plate, which coincided with a mystery illness that caused him to lose 25 pounds earlier this year.
In navigating through his own ups-and-downs, Betts hopes to be an example for others facing their own challenges.
“Everybody is going to struggle,” Mookie said. “You’re going to struggle, there’s no way around it. Life is really just about who gets through those struggles the fastest. I think you just have to be prepared for the next moment. You have to be mentally be ready for the next moment. What that looks like for you is special to you.”
Betts added, “When you go through your downs, it’s OK to be sad. That’s a valid emotion to have.”
