• Andrew Cuomo: New York sports teams can hold in-state training camps

    Andrew Cuomo: New York sports teams can hold in-state training camps

    Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s push to get professional sports going again in New York took another step forward Sunday. Cuomo said during a press conference at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh that as of Sunday, professional sports leagues can begin holding training camps in New York, as leagues work on their plans to resume play amid …
  • Noah Syndergaard spouts off about NYC landlord dispute

    Noah Syndergaard spouts off about NYC landlord dispute

    You gotta believe that Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard will see his landlord in court! Syndergaard tried to set the record straight on Twitter Saturday in a heated dispute with his landlord — who claims the 27-year-old athlete failed to pay any rent on the $27,000-a-month Tribeca penthouse he signed up for. The landlord is insisting …
  • Gregg Jefferies complicated Mets’ failure looks different now

    Gregg Jefferies complicated Mets’ failure looks different now

    All these years later, Gregg Jefferies’ tormentors are apologetic. Time not only heals wounds but changes acceptable traits. How silly it all seems now to care about how someone handled his bats or trained. “He was revolutionary in what he did,” Ron Darling says now, with Jefferies three decades removed from a Mets tenure that …
  • Mets, Yankees would resume training in Florida ahead of proposed MLB season

    Mets, Yankees would resume training in Florida ahead of proposed MLB season

    Baseball might return to New York this summer, but if spring training resumes, both the Yankees and Mets are expected to be at their sites in Florida, according to sources. While New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that the state would support professional teams’ efforts to reopen their facilities and hold games without fans this …
  • Behind Mets’ struggles to find franchise catcher since Mike Piazza

    Behind Mets’ struggles to find franchise catcher since Mike Piazza

    Mike Piazza played his last game for the Mets in 2005, completing a nearly eight-season stay with the club during which the importance of developing a catcher from within the organization was minimalized. The Mets had the Hall of Famer Piazza, after all, and even after he departed could add a veteran such as Paul …
  • Bartolo Colon has one last Mets wish at 46 years old

    Bartolo Colon has one last Mets wish at 46 years old

    Bartolo Colon wants to pitch for the Mets again. Colon, who turns 47 next week, told ESPN he hopes to pitch one more big-league season and that it would be Amazin’ to end up back with the Mets, where he pitched from 2014-16. “That Mets team was really something special,” Colon said of his time …
  • Andrew Cuomo wants to bring sports back in New York

    Andrew Cuomo wants to bring sports back in New York

    The possibility of pro sports being played in New York again this year just got an important vote of approval. Gov. Andew Cuomo on Monday said he wants sports back in the state, even as New York continues to face hurdles in reopening during the coronavirus pandemic “I also have been encouraging major sports teams …
  • Mets mailbag: Matt Harvey deserves chance at redemption

    Mets mailbag: Matt Harvey deserves chance at redemption

    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. Whether it be in 2020 or 2021 is it worth giving Matt Harvey a shot on a …
  • MLB’s proposed coronavirus rules could compromise quality of the game

    MLB’s proposed coronavirus rules could compromise quality of the game

    First of all, enough with the spitting. I get why we’re all so fascinated by the notion that coronavirus baseball will be expectorate-free. Spitting is as synonymous with baseball as are home runs, stolen bases and poverty-crying owners. Guess what, though? Most players, understanding the logic behind the banishment, will go along with it. Those …
  • Amed Rosario’s Mets future growing more uncertain during coronavirus

    Amed Rosario’s Mets future growing more uncertain during coronavirus

    Part 21 in a series analyzing the New York Mets. It’s been a long time since Amed Rosario was the Mets’ top prospect. Now that distinction belongs to Ronny Mauricio, the 19-year-old who finished last season at Class-A Columbia. Since the Mets signed Rosario for $1.75 million in 2012, he’s shown glimpses of promise, like …