Ben and Meg banter about Trey Yesavage’s performance in World Series Game 5, whether he’s already provided a career’s worth of value to Toronto, his current prospect ranking, and his future, plus Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s steady postseason production vs. Shohei Ohtani’s clustered postseason production, covering the regular season like we cover the postseason, why the Dodgers’ bats have gone cold, Teoscar Hernández’s outfielding, Mookie Betts’ future at shortstop, what the World Series says about “momentum,” how the last two games of the series will affect post-series discussions about MLB, and Davis Schneider’s batting mimicry.

Audio intro: Austin Klewan, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Ian H., “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to “pitcher’s cycle”
Link to high-K, 0-BB starts
Link to more Yesavage facts
Link to Passan on Yesavage
Link to FG top 100 update
Link to MLB Pipeline ranking
Link to Weaver on momentum
Link to BP on momentum
Link to BP on momentum again
Link to Sheehan on the Dodgers
Link to Sam on the Dodgers
Link to Shneider article
Link to “catbird seat” info
Link to Barber letter

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