• Rob Manfred failed MLB players by delivering wrong message: Sherman

    Rob Manfred failed MLB players by delivering wrong message: Sherman

    Rob Manfred went on national TV on Monday and delivered the wrong message. It is not just that he did such a public 180 by announcing he no longer is confident there will be a 2020 major league season five days after putting it at 100 percent that there would be one. Yep, that was …
  • ‘MLB should be embarrassed’: Players livid with Rob Manfred

    ‘MLB should be embarrassed’: Players livid with Rob Manfred

    Trevor Bauer is calling the commissioner’s bluff. Shortly after Rob Manfred reneged on his recent “100 percent” guarantee that there will be baseball in 2020 and said he was “not confident” games would be played this year, the outspoken Reds pitcher took to Twitter to declare that the commissioner is delaying negotiations on behalf of …
  • MLB threatening to cancel 2020 season amid Rob Manfred about-face

    MLB threatening to cancel 2020 season amid Rob Manfred about-face

    Commissioner Rob Manfred less than a week ago pronounced “100 percent” that “we’re playing Major League Baseball” in 2020. Hold that thought. MLB sent a letter to the union Monday that basically translated to the sides either come to an agreement on how to return to the field — notably pay the players — or …
  • Mets mailbag: The payroll catastrophe awaiting Mets if Wilpons don’t sell

    Mets mailbag: The payroll catastrophe awaiting Mets if Wilpons don’t sell

    You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Mets If the Wilpons lose a lot of money this season and continue to own the team, how …
  • Unprecedented MLB work stoppage could be devastating: Sherman

    Unprecedented MLB work stoppage could be devastating: Sherman

    We have not seen one of these in a while. A quarter of a century has elapsed since we were last here. So there has been hesitancy to call what is going on with Major League Baseball what it is, but this is a labor-related work stoppage. It does not fit comfortably into one of …
  • International buyer emerges in possible bid to buy Mets

    International buyer emerges in possible bid to buy Mets

    Mets COO Jeff Wilpon’s statement Thursday, “There’s four or five suitors that are out there” to buy the franchise, is raising eyebrows in sports business circles. According to multiple sources familiar with the market for the Amazin’s, if there are three or more bidders for the team, New York has a real mystery on its …
  • Method Man launches socially conscious cannabis brand TICAL

    Method Man launches socially conscious cannabis brand TICAL

    Rapper and actor Method Man has launched a cannabis brand that aims to spark conversations about racial injustice. The Wu-Tang Clan veteran has dubbed his line of pot TICAL, an acronym for “Taking Into Consideration All Lives” that’s also the title of his 1994 debut solo album. Method Man, whose legal name is Clifford Smith, …
  • Mets draft pick Eric Orze is a two-time cancer survivor

    Mets draft pick Eric Orze is a two-time cancer survivor

    The Mets already know they have a fighter in Eric Orze, the right-handed pitcher the organization drafted in the fifth round of the 2020 MLB Draft on Thursday. The 22-year-old pitcher out of the University of New Orleans was unable to compete in part of the 2018 season and all of the 2019 season as …
  • Jeff Wilpon: ‘Four or five suitors’ interested in buying Mets

    Jeff Wilpon: ‘Four or five suitors’ interested in buying Mets

    Mets COO Jeff Wilpon said Thursday there are four or five parties interested in buying the team. “The team will have some kind of transaction, I can’t tell you exactly what it’s going to be and how it’s going to look,” Wilpon told the UJA-Federation of New York, a Jewish philanthropic organization, according to Bleacher …
  • Pete Crow-Armstrong’s mom, Ashley Crow, is part of baseball movie history

    Pete Crow-Armstrong’s mom, Ashley Crow, is part of baseball movie history

    Pete Crow-Armstrong, the Mets’ first-round pick in the 2020 MLB Draft on Wednesday night, is from a family that is no stranger to the big stage. Both of Crow-Armstrong’s parents are actors, with his mom playing a role in a well-known baseball movie. His mom, Ashley Crow, played Billy Heywood’s mom Jenny in “Little Big …