Chase Headley still searching for first extra-base hit of 2016

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NEW YORK — It feels familiar. A free agent signs a 4-year, multimillion-dollar deal with a Big Apple ballclub and seemingly forgets how to hit. The player, a good guy who works hard, is suddenly powerless at the plate.

Jason Bay once was that floundering former free agent. Bay signed a 4-year, $65 million contract with the Mets in 2010, but after hitting .234 with a .687 OPS over 288 games, agreed, at just 33, to accept a buyout in 2013.

These days, the struggling slugger is the Yankees’ Chase Headley, who is in the second season of a four-year, $52 million contract. Headley, 32, has not had an extra-base hit yet this season. After 86 at-bats.

“It is just a matter of time,” Headley said. “If I keep throwing out the same swing — especially that I had [Tuesday night] — there will be plenty of extra-base hits.”

Headley did have a hard RBI single in the second inning Tuesday night. It was in the gap, but the Royals’ Jarrod Dyson cut it off, keeping Headley from reaching that Holy Grail at second base.

It is easy to make light of Headley’s ineptitude by bringing up Mets pitcher Bartolo Colon, who, among many others, has more …

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