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The Padres have fired manager Jayce Tingler after the team failed to make the playoffs despite entering the season with hopes of challenging for a World Series title.

White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu will join the team in Houston for the American League Division Series after being held out of Sunday's regular-season finale because of flu-like symptoms. Abreu tested negative for COVID-19.

The Chicago Cubs are planning to keep manager David Ross around for the foreseeable future, Jed Hoyer, the team's president of baseball operations, reiterated Wednesday.

From best (and worst) case scenarios and odds for every round to bold predictions and big names to know.

Chaos surrounded the Mets, among the postseason favorites once upon a spring, and as a devoted chronicler reported out the team's final month, he found that all the chemistry in the world couldn't stop the inevitable.

Instead of playing for next year, St. Louis decided to add at the trade deadline. Its reward? A 17-game win streak and a wild-card date with the Dodgers.

With Yankees manager Aaron Boone's contract up at the conclusion of this season, his job status remains in question.

The Red Sox ended the New York Yankees' season with a 6-2 win in Tuesday night's wild-card game, and Boston moves on to face the Tampa Bay Rays in the ALDS.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts says he is hoping first baseman Max Muncy can rejoin the team in late October and that Tommy John surgery is "not on the table" for ace Clayton Kershaw.

An electric atmosphere at Fenway Park made it feel like old times again as the Red Sox beat the Yankees in the American League Wild Card Game.

From best (and worst) case scenarios and odds for every round to bold predictions and big names to know, our baseball experts break down the postseason field.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts says Tommy John surgery is "not on the table" for ace Clayton Kershaw and that he is hoping first baseman Max Muncy can rejoin the team later this month.

The Brewers announced on Tuesday that right-hander Corbin Burnes (11-5, 2.43 ERA) will start the opening game of the NLDS Friday against the Braves, and that fellow right-hander Brandon Woodruff (9-10, 2.56) will start Game 2 on Saturday.

Eddie Robinson, the last surviving player from the 1948 World Series champion Cleveland Indians who also went on to be GM of the Texas Rangers and Atlanta Braves, has died at age 100.

The Houston Astros have named left-hander Framber Valdez to be their starting pitcher in Game 2 of the ALDS against the Chicago White Sox.

The Red Sox faithful are no strangers to curses and the like. They're also aware of what occurred when Boston faced the New York Yankees in a win-or-go-home game in 1978. Which is why Monday's Massachusetts State Lottery drawing felt inauspicious.

Left-hander Shane McClanahan and rookie Shane Baz will start the first two games of the ALDS for the Rays, who then will "highly likely" turn to Drew Rasmussen for Game 3.

Shortstop Alcides Escobar agreed to a one-year, $1 million contract on Tuesday to stay with the Washington Nationals next season.

RHP Antonio Senzatela and 1B C.J. Cron have agreed to new deals with the Rockies.

The umpires for the MLB wild-card games have been set: Joe West will be behind the plate for Wednesday's Dodgers-Cardinals NL Wild Card Game, while Mark Carlson will call balls and strikes for the AL Wild Card Game between the Yankees and Red Sox.