The best — and not so best — playoff baseball players

Harper, Seager among best, while Kimbrel, Castellanos among worst

This article was updated on Nov. 3, 2023.

While MLB’s regular season positions the better teams, the playoffs are the stars’ time to shine, to show what they are really made of, to separate the pretenders from the real deals. And often times, unlikely candidates outperform the stars on the big stage.

Two of the biggest regular-season stars, the Angels’ Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, have been locked out of the playoffs…