• Notorious umpire Angel Hernandez in more trouble with MLB

    Notorious umpire Angel Hernandez in more trouble with MLB

    Angel Hernandez may have made another bad call. The veteran umpire — labeled “as bad as there is” by Pedro Martinez following a disastrous 2018 Yankees-Red Sox playoff game — allegedly eavesdropped on an MLB investigative call last July, which focused on a 14-minute delay during a game between the Red Sox and Rays due …
  • Alex Santos, hard-throwing Bronx native, poised for big MLB Draft moment

    Alex Santos, hard-throwing Bronx native, poised for big MLB Draft moment

    On a cold March day two years ago, 30 scouts made the trip to Monsignor McClancy to see Quentin Holmes, the Queens school’s highly rated senior center fielder. When Holmes took his at-bats, all the scouts paid close attention. McClancy’s opponent, Mount St. Michael, was irrelevant — until coach Wally Stampfel inserted sophomore right-hander Alex …
  • MLB’s new proposal makes feud with players even more contentious

    MLB’s new proposal makes feud with players even more contentious

    Major League Baseball and the players association have mastered making offers that the other side claims take them further away from an agreement. MLB delivered a written proposal Monday to the players association that called for players to collectively receive 50 percent of their prorated salaries in a 76-game regular season. That would go to …
  • MLB, union debacle may bring joyless season and uglier aftermath: Sherman

    MLB, union debacle may bring joyless season and uglier aftermath: Sherman

    What is being lost by major league owners and players is so much more than an 82-game season and wrapping themselves in wall-to-wall games on Independence Day weekend and potentially creating new fans starved for live games. An already compromised season was going to provide MLB a hall pass to workshop extra innings that would …
  • Yankees, Mets fixtures would be big losers of tiny season

    Yankees, Mets fixtures would be big losers of tiny season

    Remember in “Breaking Bad” when Walt rehired Jesse at the lab just so Jesse wouldn’t sue Hank for assaulting him? The arrangement met everyone’s short-term needs. It also produced considerably more long-term agita. Which brings to mind the 50ish-game Major League Baseball regular-season schedule that Rob Manfred, on behalf of his owners, has threatened to …
  • What re-draft of historic 2010 MLB Draft might look like now

    What re-draft of historic 2010 MLB Draft might look like now

    What if we knew on June 7, 2010, what we know today? What if we were able to take so much of the guesswork out of the draft and know to avoid taking never-make-it-to-the-majors busts such as Barret Loux sixth (as the Diamondbacks did) and Karsten Whitson ninth (Padres), and to move up J.T. Realmuto …
  • Matt Harvey wants to save his baseball career in Korea

    Matt Harvey wants to save his baseball career in Korea

    Matt Harvey’s comeback attempt may take him to Korea. The Post confirmed on Friday a Korean-based report by SBS that Harvey’s representatives with Scott Boras’ agency reached out to KBO teams. According to the report, there’s no match yet, but it remains a possibility. KBO rosters allow a maximum of three foreign players and only …
  • MLB union: Players ready to report, but not with salary cuts

    MLB union: Players ready to report, but not with salary cuts

    There remains no outward signs MLB and the players’ association are moving toward each other in time to begin the regular season with the optimum start, Independence Day weekend. The MLB Players Association released a statement Thursday evening saying that its executive board and more than 100 players talked via conference call and recommitted to …
  • David Cone offers solution to save baseball season

    David Cone offers solution to save baseball season

    David Cone knows firsthand how the clock can strike 12 on a baseball season and strike it out. The YES Network analyst and former Yankee and Met was an MLBPA rep during hardball negotiations that could not prevent the cancellation of the 1994 World Series. “What comes to mind is there’s a deadline,” Cone said. …
  • NBA voice Grant Napear was unjustly fired over ‘All Lives Matter’ truth

    NBA voice Grant Napear was unjustly fired over ‘All Lives Matter’ truth

    These days you never know when you’re a goner. You never know if your career and deeds — good deeds, well-intended deeds and honest work — will be hijacked by fringe lunatics or the merely wishful to publicly paint you as what they want you to be, hope you are or read online that you …