Mets still do not plan to bring Daniel Murphy back next season, despite huge playoffs: sources  —  It took Daniel Murphy six seasons to finally get to this point and he is not wasting any of it.  —  The Mets' second baseman has made the most of every opportunity in his first playoff experience.

What Baseball Taught Me  —  Baseball is such a wonderfully unique game.  It doesn't require some extraordinary physical prowess or stature as much as it requires hard work.  People of all shapes and sizes have been some of the greatest in our game.  If you saw a professional baseball player sitting …

Yankees fire hitting coach Jeff Pentland  —  TORONTO — When the Yankees assemble in Tampa for spring training, they will have their third hitting coach in three years.  —  “I am not coming back,” Jeff Pentland told The Post Sunday from Arizona.  “When I signed, I was told it was probably a one-year deal.

Toronto Blue Jays ace David Price fails to exorcize playoff demons after seventh-inning explosion from Kansas City Royals  —  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The playoff monkey on his back was gravely wounded, but David Price could not finish it off.  —  A seventh-inning explosion from the Royals instead turned around …

Phillies Outright Domonic Brown  —  The Phillies announced today that former top prospect and starting right fielder Domonic Brown has been outrighted off their 40-man roster.  As a player with more than three years of big league service time, Brown will have the option to elect free agency rather …

Daniel Norris To Undergo Surgery For Thyroid Cancer  —  Tigers lefty Daniel Norris announced today on Instagram that he has been diagnosed with cancer in his thyroid.  He will undergo surgery soon to remove the malignant growth.  —  Needless to say, the news is shocking, particularly given that Norris is just 22 years of age.

Who can generate power for the Red Sox?  —  The Sox were last among AL East teams in homers with 161 (15th overall), 71 fewer than the major league-leading Blue Jays.

Minor League Transactions: Oct. 10-16  —  Official minor league transactions, conveyed to Baseball America by Major League Baseball, for the period Oct. 10-16.  Arizona Diamondbacks Signed: RHP Nick Sarianides (re-signed), SS Ildemaro Vargas (re-signed) Released: RHP [...]

Korean Righty Seung-Hwan Oh Interested In Move To MLB  —  Korean relief ace Seung-Hwan Oh has told his agents to explore a new contract with a Major League Baseball club, according to a report from Kyung-Don Joo and Yeong-Seok Lee report of the Korea JoongAng Daily.

$310M Dodgers go bust: What's the future for these 3 big names?  —  Clockwise from left: Don Mattingly, Yasiel Puig and Zack Greinke  —  The Dodgers were a Hollywood blockbuster gone wrong.  —  The budget was bloated and the cast full of stars.  But, ultimately, the script was not good enough.

Illinois, New York senators bet on Cubs-Mets series  —  CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois' state Senate president and several colleagues have accepted a friendly wager from their counterparts in New York as the Chicago Cubs take on the Mets in the National League Championship Series.