Two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell will take the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the 2025 World Series where he’ll be opposed by a guy who began the year pitching for the Dunedin
Blue Jays of the Class-A Florida State League.
The rise of Trey Yesavage has been meteoric since then, however, as he rocketed quickly from Dunedin to the Vancouver Canadians of the High-A Northwest League in May, the AA New Hampshire Fisher Cats for eight weeks mid-summer, and honed his craft with the Buffalo Bisons of the AAA International League in August prior to making his big league debut for Toronto in mid-September. The former 1st round pick (2024) and Top 100 overall prospect has since hit the ground running in the playoffs across a trio of appearances, and now will get the chance to tackle future Hall of Famers like Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, and the rest of the powerhouse Dodgers roster.
The big news on Toronto’s side, aside from Yesavage himself, is that Bo Bichette is back in the starting lineup playing 2B on the night. Their two-time All-Star has missed almost seven weeks of action with a sprained knee, but he’ll return – not at his usual short, but at 2B for the first time in his career – after having posted a brilliant 129 OPS+ and 3.4 bWAR season in 2025 before it was cut short at just 139 games played.
First pitch will come shortly after pomp and circumstance ends, with coverage on FOX set to begin at 8:00 PM ET.
