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Let’s begin this positively — that like, say, Bill Walsh in the NFL or Gregg Popovich in the NBA, the Yankees have done a good job with a managerial/coaching tree. That 107 miles away from where the Yankees will begin their playoffs Saturday, two of their former longtime employees — Mets manager Carlos Mendoza and … Read more

Aaron Judge’s list of regular-season accomplishments and brushes with history has grown longer than a CVS receipt. But the Yankees captain would likely crumple them up like one of those receipts and throw it in the trash in exchange for the one big thing missing from his résumé: a ring. Judge is coming off another … Read more

The first laugh line of this National League Division Series came on Friday afternoon, when San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt was asked how his club planned to attack Shohei Ohtani. “I’m not telling you,” Shildt responded with a chuckle, one reciprocated by the mass of media members before him at his pre-NLDS news conference. … Read more

Seth Lugo is in the postseason as a key piece of the Royals starting rotation, a long way from the Mets bullpen, where he spent the majority of his first seven seasons in the majors.  He became a starter with the Padres after signing as a free agent a year ago and, after a successful … Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pete Alonso deflects the questions regularly, insisting he is focusing on the small rather than the big. He says he eyes the next pitch or the next play rather than the next offseason. Plenty of people around him will acknowledge that such myopia is ideal but fairly impossible. “The business side will take … Read more

Anthony Rizzo gave it a shot, but his fractured fingers will not allow him to play in the ALDS. The Yankees’ veteran first baseman said Friday night he will not be on the ALDS roster after his attempt at hitting and squeezing a glove was not where it needed to be. Rizzo was confident he … Read more

Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman is helped off the field after sustaining a right-ankle sprain against the San Diego Padres on Sept. 26. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Freddie Freeman prides himself on his durability, the Dodgers first baseman having played all 162 games twice and 157 games or more six other times, a … Read more

Deonte Banks didn’t like what he saw from himself on tape any more than the well-respected coach who criticized his effort.  Longtime Giants defensive backs coach Jerome Henderson — a former NFL cornerback who interviewed in January to be Brian Daboll’s defensive coordinator — revealed Friday that he let Banks know his hustle to tackle … Read more

Game 3 between the Mets and the Brewers contained a little bit of everything Thursday night — a pitching duel, back-to-back homers on back-to-back pitches and, perhaps most importantly, a thrilling finish when Pete Alonso drilled a go-ahead three-run homer in the ninth. And all of that translated into record ratings during a historic wild-card … Read more

The Nets have been witnessing something new this training camp — a healthy Ben Simmons. However, it wasn’t initially known to be new until the point guard said Friday that he didn’t feel “100 percent” coming into training camp a year ago. The Nets star was thought to be healthy before suffering a back injury … Read more