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After watching Atlanta, Baltimore and the Los Angeles Dodgers lose in the Division Series following 100-win seasons, Major League Baseball will examine its postseason format but isn't rushing to make changes. MLB expanded the playoffs from 10 teams to 12 for the 2022 season as part of a five-year collective bargaining agreement with the players' association. Arizona and Texas advanced to the third all-wild card World Series, and the Diamondbacks with 84 wins could have the second-fewes...

Three of the four division winners with first-round byes lost after five-day layoffs, and the Orioles and Dodgers were swept.

Daniel Lynch IV is back on the bump.

View the FanShot on SB Nation.

Your Thursday morning dose of New York Mets and MLB news, notes, and links.

Darryl Strawberry planned to take his evangelical ministry — speaking about his life and the ills of drug and alcohol addiction — to Israel in November. That plan was discarded by the former Mets slugger after the recent outbreak of conflict in the region between Hamas and Israel.

Will Edwin Díaz recapture his dominant form? Who will be in the Opening Day rotation? It's never too early for our crystal ball.

Next season the Mets will need better production from the bullpen and that could create opportunities for prospects such as Paul Gervase.

Your Thursday morning dose of New York Mets and MLB news, notes, and links.

This week, we discuss Billy Eppler’s resignation and the MLB investigation into the Mets, the playoffs, and more.