Many of the players who will determine baseball’s 2015 champion were regarded as elite prospects. Ten were first-round Draft picks, including five top-five selections, while five more were supplemental first-rounders and three were big-ticket international signings.

With their differing workloads in mind, here is a look at how Mets pitchers Matt Harvey and Jacob deGrom have compared in some statistical areas this postseason.

A question persisted in the Mets’ clubhouse in the days after punching their World Series ticket in Chicago on Wednesday. The players asked it amongst themselves, looking to the future and the biggest baseball games they’ll ever play. “Who do we match up better against?” David Wright said. “And I don’t think anyone had an answer.”

Roemon Fields hit a two-run walk-off double on Saturday to lead Salt River to a 5-4 victory over Mesa in Arizona Fall League action.

The Mets plan to bring Juan Uribe, who has not played in a month due to a chest injury, with them to Kansas City for Game 1 on Tuesday.

Matt Harvey will start World Series Game 1 on Tuesday night (7:30 ET airtime on FOX, with game time slated for 8) for the Mets in Kansas City, the team announced Saturday.

What’s the best way to beat the Mets and the Royals? To find out, we asked players from across their respective divisions to give the inside intel on how these clubs can be beaten. Our sources were granted anonymity in exchange for their candor.

Everything the Kansas City Royals have accomplished in winning these back-to-back American League championships begins with a team owner who had an unshakable vision of what the franchise could be.

The Red Sox might take an unconventional route in the selection of their new first-base coach/outfield instructor, as former Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. is a leading candidate to land that role, according to Major League sources.

No matter how many games and seasons you have witnessed, baseball, it’s often said in homage, will offer up something never seen before. We can add the 2015 World Series as evidence.

There has been no official announcement yet, but all signs point toward the Royals starting right-hander Edinson Volquez in Game 1 of the World Series against the Mets on Tuesday (7:30 p.m. ET air time, 8 p.m. game time on FOX) at Kauffman Stadium.

Trading away a Cy Young Award winner stinks. It’s as uncomfortable as it is unpopular. But for the Mets and Royals, such a difficult deal was a necessary evil in making it to the 2015 World Series.

No matter what happens over the next week and a half, one World Series participant will snap a title drought dating back to the mid-1980s.

This is a World Series matchup virtually nobody expected but everybody can appreciate. When the Royals and Mets begin their best-of-seven adventure Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium (7:30 ET airtime on FOX, with game time slated for 8), they’ll both be able to justifiably assert that they’ve come further than most outsiders envisioned.

The Royals advanced to their second straight World Series for the first time in franchise history with a pulsating 4-3 win over the Blue Jays in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Friday night at Kauffman Stadium.

Royals closer Wade Davis overcame a 45-minute rain delay in the eighth and a Blue Jays rally in the ninth to record the final five outs of Kansas City’s ALCS-clinching win on Friday night at Kauffman Stadium.

The World Series will obviously be decided on the field — and any player on either roster could ultimately emerge as the hero — but here’s a closer look at some of the key players and metrics to keep an eye on in this year’s Fall Classic, courtesy of Statcast.