Effectively Wild Episode 2395: Momentum is the Next Day’s Starting Podcast

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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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 […]

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0:00.0	Effectively wild, where we can talk about a tonic all day long.
0:07.0	Effectively wild, we've been in there make an honor like you know it's going to be a good time.
0:15.0	I want to look about my statistics.
0:19.0	I want to hear about none of them RBI's, yeah.
0:22.6	Tell me about some prospect I should know about.
0:26.6	A fake, a fake, a fake, Disney wild, a fake, a fake,
0:30.6	a fake, deadly wild.
0:33.6	A fake, a fake, a fake, Disney wild. A fake, a fake, a fake, d'I., wow. Hello and welcome to
0:46.8	Hello and welcome to episode 2395 of Effectively Wild
0:50.3	Baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. Who else? I am Ben Lindberg
0:56.6	of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs. Hello, Meg. Oh, hello. Well, I was thinking
1:02.3	about Trey Savage. Who isn't these days? Yeah. I had some interesting thoughts, interesting to me at least.
1:11.1	Yeah.
1:11.5	Because famously, he's eight starts into his big league career.
1:16.4	Yeah.
1:16.7	Five of them have been postseason starts, and most of them have been pretty spectacular.
1:21.6	But he is still so new to the league, so young, so inexperienced.
1:26.9	Yeah.
1:27.5	He is still extremely rookie eligible postseason innings don't count toward that eligibility, right?
1:33.9	So he will go into next season as probably one of the leading American League rookie of the year candidates.
1:40.3	Mm-hmm.
1:41.2	And yet, he has already reached the mountaintop more or less.
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