MLB: What to watch on October 24, 2025
Here are today's MLB games, ordered by watchability, based on how interesting the teams and starting pitchers look. Higher is better. For more information, read this post.
| Score | Time (PT) | Visitors | Score | Home | Score | Starter (V) | Score | Starter (H) | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13.9 | 5:00p | Los Angeles Dodgers | 7.6 | Toronto Blue Jays | 6.9 | Blake Snell | 8.3 | Trey Yesavage | No data |
Notes:
- Pitcher 'no data': Pitchers only have a pNERD score once they've started at least one game and have at least 20 innings pitched. I also show 'no data' when I can't correctly link a starting pitcher with their stats.
- Generated by the mlb-watchability project on GitHub.
Detail
Los Angeles Dodgers @ Toronto Blue Jays, 5:00p
Summary
A rookie making World Series history meets a two-time Cy who’s currently erasing hitters; that’s a pretty good reason to watch. gNERD 13.90 agrees, pitting Blake Snell’s peak form against Trey Yesavage’s audacious Game 1 assignment.
Snell’s strong pNERD (8.26) isn’t theoretical: he carved eight scoreless with 10 strikeouts in the NLCS opener and has allowed two runs total across three postseason starts, the sort of dominance that makes even patient lineups swing first and ask questions later. Yesavage shows a pNERD of 0 only because the model lacks MLB sample; his résumé is anything but empty—5⅓ hitless innings with 11 K in his ALDS debut—and he becomes the second‑youngest pitcher ever to start a World Series Game 1, trailing only Ralph Branca.
Under the hood, Dodgers tNERD (7.59) leans on real thunder (strong batting runs and barrels) plus a top bullpen, while Toronto’s tNERD (6.95) is buoyed by elite fielding despite softer contact quality and shaky baserunning. That means power-and-‘pen versus gloves-and-gumption, layered over the novelty of a 22‑year‑old splitter artist facing a changeup‑happy ace. If you like watchability defined by dominance versus discovery, this is it.
(A model from OpenAI generated the above text using instructions, the NERD scores, and these sources: 1, 2, 3.)
Recommended broadcasts: TV, Toronto Blue Jays (3.10); radio, Los Angeles Dodgers (2.51)
Los Angeles Dodgers
| Batting | Barrel% | BaseR | Fielding | Bullpen | Payroll | Age | Luck | TV | Radio | C | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw stat | 95.1 | 10.0% | -1.4 | 1.6 | 56.5 | $341.0M | 29.6 | -3.0 | 2.45 | 2.51 | — | — |
| Z-score | 1.33 | 1.16 | -0.26 | 0.08 | 1.09 | 2.26 | 0.89 | -0.14 | 0.12 | 0.26 | — | — |
| tNERD | 1.33 | 1.16 | -0.26 | 0.08 | 1.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.13 | 4.00 | 7.59 |
Toronto Blue Jays
| Batting | Barrel% | BaseR | Fielding | Bullpen | Payroll | Age | Luck | TV | Radio | C | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw stat | 90.8 | 8.1% | -5.6 | 38.7 | 30.3 | $248.4M | 29.6 | 17.0 | 3.10 | 2.39 | — | — |
| Z-score | 1.27 | -0.41 | -0.87 | 1.61 | -0.10 | 1.01 | 0.89 | 0.74 | 1.40 | 0.01 | — | — |
| tNERD | 1.27 | -0.41 | -0.87 | 1.61 | -0.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.74 | 0.70 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 6.95 |
Blake Snell, Los Angeles Dodgers
| xFIP- | SwStr% | Strike% | Velocity | Age | Pace | Luck | KN% | C | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw stat | 75 | 15.3% | 62.1% | 95.2 mph | 32 | 18.6s | -19 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Z-score | -1.59 | 2.23 | -0.78 | 0.59 | 0.92 | 0.06 | — | — | — | — |
| pNERD | 3.17 | 1.11 | -0.39 | 0.59 | 0.00 | -0.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.80 | 8.26 |
Trey Yesavage, Toronto Blue Jays
No detailed stats available