NEW POD - Josh Naylor back to SEA for 5 years, $92.5M - putting all 30 MLB teams into 9 different tiers at the outset of free agency, from most to least $$$ (or so we think) - 6 biggest player-specific FA questions - takeaways from Blake Butera Nats intro presser - and more!

Shoutout printing PDFs and JSTOR

NEW POD - Judge & Ohtani MVPs again + Cal Raleigh falls *just* short - let's talk about Paul Skenes (unanimous Cy Young) and the Pirates - the triumphant return of the SCOTT BORAS SCOREBOARD #ScoBoScoBo - Good/Bad/Uggla on Tony Blanco Jr., Tony Vitello, A's replies, Padres for sale? and much more!

NEW POD - Emmanuel Clase + Luis Ortiz indicted; reviewing the most notable and illuminating details from DOJ report - Nick Kurtz & Drake Baldwin win ROY - one final Judge vs. Raleigh AL MVP discussion - MVP Ballot Guessing Game; how many + which players will get at least one vote?

honored to have an AL Rookie of the Year vote along with colleague @russdorsey.bsky.social new at Yahoo Sports, a look at our respective ballots and who snagged the final couple spots behind the obvious top three as ROY voting expanded from 3 to 5 spots this year: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

Jefry Yan forever

NEW POD - 2025 Blue Jays retrospective w/ @bnsbaseball.bsky.social 🇨🇦 - sorry to Rockies fans but POBO Paul DePodesta is tremendous content - Padres hire...Craig Stammen? sure! - Munetaka Murakami officially posted - Good/Bad/Uggla returns! on Ernie Clement, gold toilets, LIDOM, and much more

NEW POD - best moments from Dodgers World Series parade + afterparty (Freddie did WHAT?!) - Dodgers dynasty good or bad for baseball? - Gold Gloves! - options galore! Imanaga, Bieber, Flaherty, Story, Robert Jr. - Yu Darvish out for 2026 :( Padres rotation...😬 - manager carousel update - and more!

Listened to the @cespedesbbq.bsky.social podcast episode while hiking yesterday. Thanks for keeping me company on the trail all these years. Looking forward to some off-season banter!

NEW POD THE END -- the impossible, unthinkable end the Los Angeles Dodgers are the 2025 World Series champions this is our Game 7 recap -- nothing more, nothing less enjoy 🫡 APPLE: tinyurl.com/yxfm33a6 SPOTIFY: tinyurl.com/vyadhnpa YOUTUBE: youtu.be/FVFrrAh7IB4

@hollyanderson.bsky.social on that play from the World Series last night where the outfielders collided, via @cespedesbbq.bsky.social

NEW POD THE END -- the impossible, unthinkable end the Los Angeles Dodgers are the 2025 World Series champions this is our Game 7 recap -- nothing more, nothing less enjoy 🫡 APPLE: tinyurl.com/yxfm33a6 SPOTIFY: tinyurl.com/vyadhnpa YOUTUBE: youtu.be/FVFrrAh7IB4

tonight will be George Springer's 6th career start in a Game 7 & Max Scherzer's 3rd career start in a Game 7 via @stathead.com, only 3 other players/pitchers in MLB history have started Game 7 as often: Yogi Berra Mickey Mantle Elston Howard Roger Clemens Bob Gibson John Smoltz

new for Yahoo Sports, on Toronto’s ninth-inning rally in Game 6 that fell short in unthinkable fashion: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

the six biggest questions ahead of World Series Game 6, new for Yahoo Sports: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

@davidjroth.bsky.social my wife is a Boyertown High School grad so I was gifted with this clip of a school produced news video highlighting Senior Trey Yesavage. We have simply never captured pure baseball brain in such a way. “I throw the ball fast” Yes you do, king And you are saving baseball

the six biggest questions ahead of World Series Game 6, new for Yahoo Sports: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

NEW POD - TOR completely flips the script after dropping marathon Game 3 - Trey Yesavage delivers one of the greatest World Series starts ever -- no big deal! - Vlad Jr.'s epic October continues - Game 6 preview; will Yamamoto's legend grow even further or will Jays win it all? - and much more!

Didn't expect to hear a 'rainy night in Stoke' reference during a recap of two World Series games in LA. But @cespedesbbq.bsky.social knows more than one type of ball

Andy Pages is out of the Dodgers starting lineup for Game 5 -- the first time he hasn't started this month -- with Kiké starting in CF and Alex Call in LF via @stathead.com, Pages' .215 OPS is by far the lowest of any player ever with at least 50 plate appearances in a single postseason

Shane Bieber deftly defeated both versions of Shohei Ohtani en route to earning the win in his World Series debut new for Yahoo Sports, on Bieber's steady and successful outing that Toronto needed badly coming off the marathon heartbreaker in Game 3: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

the Blue Jays battled valiantly for 18 innings, but missed scoring opportunities, missed pitch locations, and missing four of their best players by the end of game cost them badly new for Yahoo Sports, on the frustrated losing end of an October classic: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

recorded from Dodger Stadium deep into the Los Angeles night... oddly enough this pod actually got *more* coherent as it went along unlike the actual game nevertheless, a delightful and delirious experience all around thanks for listening; next episode will be after Game 5 🫡

Haven't listened yet but no way the opener isn't the Albernaz signing, right?

NEW POD - World Series Game 3 recap; not a lot to discuss, right? - Ohtani 4 XBH (2 HR + 2 2B) + 5 BB (4 intentional) LOL COME ON - TOR emptying bench was understandable but also backfired brutally - ERIC LAUER?! WILL KLEIN?!?!?! - Freddie Freeman really did it again - AND SO MUCH MORE!!!

the Blue Jays entered World Series Game 2 as one of the most productive postseason offenses we've ever witnessed then Yoshinobu Yamamoto happened on Toronto's startling introduction to a special pitcher it had never seen before, new for Yahoo Sports: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

NEW POD - Yoshinobu Yamamoto really just did that; marveling at his second straight CG and what makes him so special - rewinding to a triumphant Toronto rout in Game 1 - Game 3 preview; last hurrah for Max Scherzer? - early thoughts on Tony Vitello, San Francisco Giants manager - and more!

most recent HR by left-handed hitters vs. Blake Snell before Daulton Varsho in Game 1: Juan Soto (6/2/24) Kyle Schwarber (5/27/24) Rafael Devers x 2 (5/19/23) Max Muncy (7/1/22) Bryce Harper (8/20/21) Kyle Tucker (5/30/21) decent company!

Addison Barger — who the night before slept on the pull-out couch Davis Schneider’s hotel suite overlooking the ballyard — let it rip last night. Thats just how Barger lives his life. On the dude that hit the first pinch hit grand slam in World Series history. sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

@cespedesbbq.bsky.social listening to the preview pod late and the Barger segment from Jordan is a masterclass "I hope he has a moment"

two innings before Addison Barger’s pinch-hit grand slam exclamation point, it was Daulton Varsho’s unlikely homer off Blake Snell that got things started for Toronto in World Series Game 1 new for Yahoo Sports, on Varsho’s biggest Blue Jays moment yet: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

HOT STOVE SEASON 🔜 TOP 50 FREE AGENTS sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

Bo Bichette is back for the World Series after missing nearly 7 weeks with a left knee sprain but if he isn’t gonna play shortstop, how does he fit? new for Yahoo Sports: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

your World Series Game 1 starter:

NEW POD WORLD SERIES PREVIEW POD - but first: ALCS Game 7 recap! George Springer plays hero as Dan Wilson's bullpen move goes terribly wrong - position-by-position breakdown for Dodgers vs. Blue Jays - what to expect from Bo Bichette? - World Series narrative draft - and more!

from George Springer's dad to John Schneider's wife to Jeff Hoffman's brother and more, here's a look at the Blue Jays' Game 7 triumph through the eyes of those closest to the people who helped give Toronto its first pennant in 32 years new for Yahoo Sports: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

15 months after joining an organization they knew very little about, the Yesavages are going to the World Series sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

from George Springer's dad to John Schneider's wife to Jeff Hoffman's brother and more, here's a look at the Blue Jays' Game 7 triumph through the eyes of those closest to the people who helped give Toronto its first pennant in 32 years new for Yahoo Sports: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

NEW POD - Ohtani plays greatest baseball game ever to send Dodgers back to World Series - Mariners follow epic Game 5 win with Game 6 dud as Vlad Jr. continues legendary October run to keep Blue Jays season alive - ALCS Game 7 preview - some Tony Vitello to SFG (maybe) thoughts

new for Yahoo Sports: a bunch more splitters from Trey Yesavage, another legendary swing from Vlad Jr., a Toronto triple-double (play), and one of the sloppiest games the Mariners played all season have pushed the ALCS to a Game 7 sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

difficult to even begin to convey how shocking of a hire this would be the prospect of Tony Vitello transitioning from being one of college baseball’s main characters to a major-league manager without a second of pro ball experience in between is utterly fascinating

6 outs away from a shocking series deficit, Cal Raleigh stepped up to the plate 12 minutes later, T-Mobile Park was as loud as it’s ever been new for Yahoo Sports, on the two swings Seattle will never forget and Eugenio Suárez finally having his moment: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

NEW POD - MIL offense stays quiet as LAD goes up 3-0...but have we even seen the best of the Dodgers yet? probably not 😅 - road teams keep dominating in ALCS as Blue Jays excel in every facet in Seattle; Vlad Jr., Giménez, Bieber, Scherzer shine - PHI & NYY postmortem pressers

from his fastest pitch in 2 years to the first pickoff of his playoff career to screaming at John Schneider to let him stay in, Max Scherzer's Game 4 start had it all -- and the Blue Jays have drawn even in the topsy-turvy ALCS new for Yahoo Sports, from Seattle: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

new for Yahoo Sports, from Seattle on Vlad Jr.’s near-cycle, Toronto’s timely offensive awakening, and Shane Bieber’s stellar six innings combining to make the ALCS a whole lot more interesting: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

NEW POD - Yamamoto delivers rare postseason CG as Dodgers starting pitching continues to shine; can MIL get back in this? - Mariners cruise in Game 2; will TOR bats wake up in Seattle? - early takeaways from what will be an extremely active coaching staff carousel this winter

ALCS Game 2 pitching match-up is so fun wild to think Logan Gilbert has pitched twice since Trey Yesavage carved up the Yankees 8 days ago can the rookie replicate that dominance against another good lineup while this time facing the pressure of being down in the series? we’re about to find out!

NEW POD - SEA takes ALCS Game 1 thanks to Miller, Raleigh, Polanco - we obviously still gotta talk about ALDS Game 5 - NLCS preview; how many narratives can be true at the same time? can the team with the best record in baseball be underdogs or...? - saying farewell to DET, CHC