Yahoo Sports senior MLB analysts Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman discuss the Dodgers utilityman's run during the National League Championship Series to lift Los Angeles back to the Fall Classic. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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The one other guy I wanna, I wanna focus on is Tommy Edmond.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So under the radar deadline ad in that three team deal with the White Sox and the, and the, and the Cardinals, the one where Tommy Pham and Eric Fetty end up in Saint Louis and at the time you and me are dumb asses were like, wow, Cardinals with the deadline and like the deadline is silly, obviously.

Yes.

However, Dodgers get Tommy Edmond who has injured for the whole first chunk of the season who hadn't played a game.

He's just a, he's just a good ball player, Jordan, he's a good freaking ball player and it all the stars on the Dodgers and Tommy Edward wins NL CS MVP.

Yeah, I mean, it, it's set up really well, particularly with this last game.

I mean, we picked, you know, we did a little round table, uh with llb.com picking postseason breakout stars and I picked Edmund on September 24th and my logic at that point was not that he was gonna have 15 RBIs or whatever it was to be clear, but it was that the, the reason you get Tommy Edmund is, he can do a lot of things for you.

And I applied that to postseason hero because it was just like things will happen and they're going to still need Tommy Edmund and in this case, they needed him to play shortstop.

Right.

He was playing a lot of center field and then he was playing shortstop and what he can do is hit lefties a lot better than he can hit righties.

And to the point where they felt con confident, putting him clean up, right, which looked goofy.

But as you saw he can crush lefties and if you can crush on Anaya game six of the NL CS and you've already driven in however many runs that you have, you will win an L CS MVP.

And so for him to be able to plug in and just be there shortstop and be the switch hitter and bring some, you know, some, some base running and defense and all these things.

Like there were just a lot of avenues for him to impact the game.

But obviously driving in this many runs is, is just kind of funny and, and to see him, you know, end up, especially in contrast to the, uh A L CS MVP is, is wonderfully baseball.

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