NEW YORK — Yankees designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion has been hitting a lot of homers and raking in a ton of dough over his 15 seasons as a big leaguer.

His 414 homers are tied with Darrell Evans for 52nd all-time.

His career earnings are more than $106 million counting the $20 million that he’s making this season.

What’s missing is what’s most important to the three-time All-Star, aside from God, health and family.

“I’ve been to the Championship Series twice, but no World Series,” Encarnacion, who turns 37 in January, said Sunday before the Yankees’ 8-3 win over Toronto Blue Jays.

Getting to the World Series and winning it, Encarnacion claims, will be his focus once he returns late into this final week of the regular season from an oblique strain that’s sidelined him for 10 games.

Later on, once the Dominican slugger’s first postseason ride with the Yankees is complete, Encarnacion will begin looking into whether or not his time with the club will be limited to a half season.

It would be easy to assume that Encarnacion, who was traded by the rebuilding Seattle Mariners to the Yankees on June 15 for a pitching prospect, will be a short-timer. He’s a high-priced and aging slugger who hits right-handed in a Yankees lineup loaded with right-handed power, after all.

For sure, the Yankees will opt to pay Encarnacion a $5-million buyout instead of picking up a $20-million club option for 2020 that remains in his $3-year, $60-million deal. But it may not a lock that the Yanks let Encarnacion walk in the winter without looking into bringing him back on a team-friendly deal to be their primary DH next season.

Encarnacion has played 44 games and missed 40 since joining the Yankees due to two injuries – he also was sidelined from Aug. 3 to Sept. 3 with a fractured wrist - but he’s contributed 13 homers and 37 RBI with an .856 OPS when healthy.

Encarnacion’s thoughts?

“It’s too early to think about coming back,” he said. “Right now we only have one plan. It’s about winning. Let’s get the point where we want to be, then we can talk about that. That’s what I’m focused on.”

Encarnacion does have some of his future plans tentatively mapped out in his head.

“I’d like to play maybe two or three years,” he said. “It depends on how I feel.”

Three more good years could get Encarnacion into the 500-homer club and possibly into the Hall of Fame. If he doesn’t homer again this season, he’d need to average 29 for three years to hit 500, and that seems doable considering he has averaged 37 homers over his last seven seasons and he has 34 this year in just 109 games.

But if Encarnacion is back with the Yankees in 2020, he’ll return because he’s been so happy being with them this season.

“We have a lot of great talent here and great young players who know how to play the game,” Encarnacion said. “It’s an incredible organization with great players and a great group of staff. It’s fun to be here. I’m excited to be part of this team.”

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Encarnacion would like to return, but he’s in no hurry to jump into 2020 because still is unfinished business for 2019.

“I’m going to wait and see what’s going to happens,” he said. “I just want to win.”

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