Good morning and welcome to Effectively Wild, the almost daily podcast from baseball

inspectors. I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach, California. I'm with Ben Lindbergh in New York, New

York. Ben, we missed the Monday episode. Yes. I suppose that that limits what we can

claim to be. We are no longer a daily podcast. No, I feel bad about that. The postseason has

led to a lot of extreme recording circumstances and even right now we are recording later

or earlier than we ever have. It is 3.23 a.m. Yes. Where I am at least. I'm not wearing

pants. It's so late that even the crickets are asleep. It sounds like... Yeah, actually

we're dead, possibly. Possibly. I saw some lizards in my backyard today and lizards

eat crickets and we had actually kind of been secretly hoping that lizards would come

and eat the crickets. I don't know if that's the case. I have seen crickets in the recent

past but not in the last 20 minutes. Well, lizards don't really make any sound. We just

have to take your word for it that they're there. So that's not as fun.

So the San Francisco Giants are the National League Champions. These Detroit Tigers are

the American League Champions as everybody has known for many days. The Giants beat the

Cardinals tonight in game seven of a sort of odd series. Not really all that much drama

in any individual day and yet a great deal of drama as the series progressed. Yes.

And I thought that today we would just talk about some of the players whose postseason

performances could perhaps change the popular impression of them and just talk about whether

we think that the changes are deserved or whether these are just small, fluke-ish performances

that we will have forgotten about by spring training. How does that sound? That's good.

So I don't really know how to progress. So I'll just start saying words. And you'll

say some words. So Kyle Loche, John Haman wrote a piece about his free agent. See prospects.

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