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Fantasy baseball: What to look for at catcher for down the stretch
With the calendar almost ready to flip to September, most fantasy baseball managers fighting for a championship are paying close attention to which minor leaguers are expected to be called...
Why this Met could be the main catcher in the playoffs
Tomas Nido started for the third straight game Saturday and for the sixth time in the past eight contests, going 0-for-3 in a 4-2 loss to the Braves.
Mets could get one of their catchers back very soon
The Mets lost both of their catchers in a span of three days last week, but help is on the way.
Mets' free-fall hits new low
The Mets aren’t going to leave town in first place and they shouldn’t count on second, either.
Mets score monumental win
SAN DIEGO — Seldom has a series split felt like such a win for the Mets. Banged up and still wondering from where much of the offense will generate on...
Former Yankee teases Brett Gardner over World Series pick
HOUSTON — The Astros invited a pair of players from their 2017 championship team, catchers Brian McCann and Evan Gattis, to take part in the ceremonial first pitch before Game...
Former Yankees catcher retires
Brian McCann began his career with the Atlanta Braves, and ended it with them. The catcher said he is retiring from baseball after the Braves’ suffered a 13-1 season-ending loss...
What Yankees, Mets would have to do to get Mariners' stud closer
The Mariners are “very motivated” to find a way to rid themselves of Robinson Cano and as much of the five years at $120 million left on his contract, according...
It's not just Gary: Inside the catching plague that's only getting worse
BOSTON -- Did you see it in World Series Game 1? It was there again. Yep, amid the velocity and the greatest frequency ever of breaking balls. The shifts, extreme...
The man behind 'The Sandlot' saw that Yankees remake
“The Great Bam-bee-no!” If this line — or this line reading, to be more specific — doesn’t register with you, then you haven’t seen “The Sandlot,” the cult hit film...
Two ex-Yankees finally get a ring, and one could be managing soon
LOS ANGELES — Carlos Beltran has earned his ring. It was worth the wait. And don’t be surprised if he winds up a manager someday soon. But mostly Wednesday night’s...
Astros put wacky, painful past in rearview mirror
LOS ANGELES — They were once the Colt .45s. They were once the first team to ever call a dome home. They once wore the most ghastly uniforms with different...
Brian McCann and Mark Teixeira are becoming family
Once brothers in uniform, Mark Teixeira and Brian McCann will soon be step brothers. McCann's mother, Sherry, revealed Wednesday she is marrying Teixeira's father, John, this winter while standing in...
World Series will be decided by last-arm-standing desperation
HOUSTON – The lineup card sat on A.J. Hinch’s desk 90 minutes after a World Series Game 5 that might take 90 years to fully put in perspective. It was...
The numbers behind Greg Bird's ill-fated dash for home
For years, a play like the one that ended with Greg Bird being tagged out at the plate in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series would become a...
Brian McCann makes Yankees pay even more
HOUSTON — This stunningly successful Yankees season concluded with a sting of reality Saturday night at Minute Maid Park. The proper order of things reasserted itself in time to send...
Yankees' future is bright, but that's little consolation right now
HOUSTON — In the end, the rotation ran out of gas, the offense ran into problems away from home and Greg Bird just ran too darn slowly. Add it all...
Brian McCann delivered in a huge spot against former team
HOUSTON — Brian McCann finally made his presence felt against his former team. The former Yankees catcher looked overmatched for much of the ALCS, including in his first at-bat Friday...
What Carlos Beltran told Astros in locker-room speech
The Astros’ 101 regular-season wins no longer matter. Having baseball’s best offense has become irrelevant. Houston is one loss from a stunning end to its season, and after three straight...
Ex-teammate thinks Sanchez has done 'exceptionally well'
HOUSTON — Gary Sanchez’s rough postseason took another bad turn when he botched Didi Gregorius’ throw to the plate in the bottom of the ninth that allowed Jose Altuve to...