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Two items are becoming more and more probable if there is going to be a major league season this year: 1. It is going to begin without crowds. 2. It is going to begin without a standard minor league feeder system. Central to the agreement that was reached last week between MLB and the Players …
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Yankees catcher Kyle Higashioka takes Post readers behind the scenes as he tries to stay prepared for the 2020 season amid the coronavirus pandemic. As told to Ken Davidoff. Thursday would have been my first major league Opening Day. But, to be honest, I didn’t really think about it during the day. I think over …
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Major League Baseball is closely monitoring the coronavirus situation in Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday he’s going to sign a “safer-at-home” executive order for four counties in southeast Florida. The order, if it goes into effect, would last through mid-May and would make it unlikely any form of spring training could occur in …
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Texas Rangers outfielder Joey Gallo’s 2019 campaign was cut short after he underwent surgery on his right hand. And not even a quarantine in response to the global coronavirus pandemic is keeping him from staying sharp for Opening Day 2020, which may still be months away. In a video posted Saturday to TikTok, Gallo repeatedly …
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The tough part is over. Now, comes the tough part — figuring out what kind of season can be had, if there is actually going to be a major league season in 2020. MLB and the Players Association finalized an agreement on issues that needed immediate attention, notably how and if players would get paid …
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Mookie Betts might end up never playing a game for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The deal between Major League Baseball and its players association, broken down here by The Post’s Joel Sherman, includes a provision that players will receive a full year of service time even if the entire 2020 season is canceled due to …
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I love Opening Day. There is something about the blank canvas. About possibility. All the spring training niceties — best shape of their lives and the injured who were way ahead of schedule — have folded into the reality of Game 1. Game 162 seems far away. Opening Day allows a return to familiar faces …
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On the eve of what was supposed to be Opening Day, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said he will reveal his findings into the Red Sox cheating probe once baseball returns. If an optimistic Manfred has his way, America’s pastime will be back some time in May. “We’ll have to make a determination depending on what …
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Some things remain unchanged; all along 126th Street, the chop-shop guys still have their eagle eyes tuned to any dent on the bumpers of passing cars. You have a scratch on the door? Like always, they are eager to help, offering up business cards while properly outfitted in uniforms of the day: surgical gloves, masks, …
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The radio voice of the Yankees, John Sterling, 81, will not be broadcasting on what was supposed to be Opening Day on Thursday. “This is the most unusual thing that has occurred in all of our lives,” Sterling told The Post. “There have been other scares before, but they weren’t worldwide. This is so important, …
Two items are becoming more and more probable if there is going to be a major league season this year: 1. It is going to begin without crowds. 2. It is going to begin without a standard minor league feeder system. Central to the agreement that was reached last week between MLB and the Players …
