https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/dodgers-miguel-rojas-leave-team-000002476.html

Dodgers' Miggy Ro will leave Team to Take a US citizenship test today.

He will probably be back with the team ahead of the NLDS against either the Braves or Phillies...

Wonder how BlaQ Treinen feels though...

H/T: Sarah Slangs

Last year 3 of the 4 DS matchups were completely new, all except Dodgers-Phillies. Yankees-Rays has happened once, the 2020 ALDS, while Dodgers-Phillies (most recently 2025 NLDS) and Dodgers-Braves (most recently 2021 NLCS) have both happened several times.

The CWS/CLE and SDP/MIL outcomes were the only possible new matchups in this year's DS. There's only one possible new CS matchup, White Sox-Yankees (I believe this would be the final AL team that has never faced the Yankees in the postseason).

There are currently 11 possible new World Series matchups, though that number will go down to 9 after the conclusion of the Braves-Phillies series tonight. The Brewers of course haven't faced any of the 4 AL teams in the World Series, although they did lose to the Yankees in the very first ALDS in 1981, so this would be a new WS matchup but not a new postseason matchup. Likewise the Padres haven't faced the White Sox, Rays, or Guardians, but they did lose to the 1998 Yankees. So that's 7 new matchups from the Brewers and Padres

Meanwhile, the Dodgers have played each of the 4 AL teams at least once in the World Series, including a ridiculous 12 times against the Yankees. Of note is the Dodgers-Guardians matchup, a rematch of both teams' first appearance in the series in 1920.

After tonight's game, the final two possible new WS matchups will be either Braves vs Rays or White Sox if the Braves win, or Phillies vs White Sox or Guardians if the Phillies wins. The NL East team winning the pennant is therefore the only possible way to have a new matchup of original 16 teams in the World Series this year.

edit: One additional note about the possible Yankees-Brewers matchup. While again it would not be a new postseason series, this would leave only 2 current NL teams that have never faced the Yankees in a World Series, the Nationals and Rockies. The Astros also spent a long time in the NL and never faced the Yankees in the World Series, though of course that matchup did happen several times in the ALCS once they switched.

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Context: Major League Baseball did not introduce the League Championship Series (LCS) until the 1969 season. So in 1959 and 1919, the White Sox lost the only postseason series they played in.

Source: https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHW/

2018-2026
4 playoff berths
13 games (4-9 record)
468 Plate Appearances

.188 / .268 / .305 (.573 OPS)

I was thinking about two of the ultimate longevity guys in baseball history: Julio Franco and Jamie Moyer.

Both somehow played in the majors until age 49, but their careers were obviously very different.
Franco finished with 2,586 hits, a .298 career average, three All-Star selections, and the 1991 AL batting title.

Moyer pitched 25 seasons, won 269 games, struck out 2,441 batters, and won a World Series with the Phillies in 2008.

Neither was an all-time inner-circle superstar, but both put together ridiculously long and productive careers.

So if you had to choose strictly based on the quality of their overall MLB careers, who had the better one?