Effectively Wild Episode 2395: Momentum is the Next Day’s Starting Podcast
Podcast: Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball PodcastPublished On: Fri Oct 31 2025
Description: 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 Sponsor Us on Patreon Give a Gift Subscription Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com Effectively Wild Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki Apple Podcasts Feed Spotify Feed YouTube Playlist Facebook Group Bluesky Account Twitter Account Get Our Merch! var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source
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