Five native Hoosiers – three players, a manager and one coach – will head to Major League Baseball’s postseason this year.  Here’s a look:      

American League

New York Yankees:  Right-hander Lance Lynn (Indianapolis) came to the Yanks from Minnesota in a July 30 trade.  In 11 appearances for New York including nine starts, the Brownsburg High School alum went 3-2 with a 4.14 earned run average.  Overall, he was 10-10 in 31 games with a 4.77 ERA.  In five trips to postseason from 2011 to 2015 with the St. Louis Cardinals, Lynn is 5-4, 4.50.  He’ll work out of the bullpen this time around. 

Yankee bullpen catcher and coaching assistant Radley Haddad (Columbus) is a Brebeuf Jesuit High School alum who played college ball at Western Carolina and Butler.  Haddad caught for Yankee minor league teams from 2013 to 2016 and joined New York’s coaching staff last year.  

Oakland Athletics:  Serving as catcher Jonathan Lucroy’s backup this year, Josh Phegley (Terre Haute) hit .204 with a pair of homers and 15 runs batted in 39 games.  If the A’s include Phegley on their October roster, it’ll be the first postseason experience for the Terre Haute North High School and Indiana University alum. 

Oakland will sorely miss left-handed starter Sean Manaea (Valparaiso), done for the year after shoulder surgery in September.  The South Central and Andrean High School alum, drafted out of Indiana State University, was 12-9 this year with a 3.59 ERA.   

Another Hoosier native who’s enjoying Oakland’s success is Jim Eppard (South Bend), the A’s minor league hitting coordinator.  Eppard, who attended high school in Azusa, Calif., and played for Cal-Berkeley and Citrus College in Glendora, Calif., was an outfielder for the Angels (1987-1989) and Blue Jays (1990).  

Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros:  None.  

Houston first baseman A.J. Reed (Terre Haute) saw action in one game for the AL West champions this season.  Although the South Vigo High School alumnus had 28 homers and 108 RBI this year at Fresno, he wasn’t called up when the Pacific Coast League season ended.   

Boston’s Sam Travis is a Hoosier, but not by birth.  The first baseman, who saw action in 19 games for the Red Sox this year, is an Illinois native who starred for Indiana University from 2012 to 2014.  

National League 

Milwaukee Brewers:  Although he grew up in Whitefish Bay, Wis., Brewers manager Craig Counsell is a South Bend native who played baseball for the University of Notre Dame.  Counsell was an infielder for five major league teams from 1995 to 2011.  He took over the Brewers’ reins in 2015.  Counsell was a member of two World Series championship teams, the 1997 Florida Marlins and the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001.  He won MVP honors when the D-backs beat the Atlanta Braves in the 2001 NL Championship Series.     

Colorado Rockies:  Reserve catcher Drew Butera (Evansville) batted .190 in 61 games this year.  But when he joined the Rockies from Kansas City in an August 31 deal, Colorado manager Bud Black praised the 35-year-old nine-year veteran as a “great game-caller, receiver, great baseball mind.”  One of only five men to catch no-hitters in both leagues, Butera played for Kansas City’s 2015 World Series championship team.   

Rockies left-handed starter Kyle Freeman, a Denver native, pitched for Evansville University from 2012 to 2014.     

Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers:  None.  

Like Boston’s Sam Travis, Cubs outfielder Kyle Schwarber played for Indiana University from 2012 to 2014.  Schwarber’s an Ohio native.     

Pete Cava is the author of “Tales From the Cubs Dugout” and “Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players:  A Biographical Dictionary, 1871-2014.”