• How Mets drafting Kumar Rocker went so very wrong

    How Mets drafting Kumar Rocker went so very wrong

    New York sports fans generally regard baseball’s amateur draft the same way they look at NASCAR, or college football, or Republican primaries: as curiosities, shrugged off by the masses and...
  • Mets, Kumar Rocker have understanding in place for contract

    Mets, Kumar Rocker have understanding in place for contract

    The Mets selected the hard-throwing righty from Vanderbilt on Sunday night when he surprisingly fell to them with the 10th overall pick.
  • Scott Boras drooling over Mets’ MLB free-agency potential

    Scott Boras drooling over Mets’ MLB free-agency potential

    Even in the absence of the MLB general managers’ meetings this year due to the pandemic, Scott Boras is willing to assess the Mets’ shopping potential. The super-agent often uses supermarket
  • Trevor Bauer isn’t only MLB player enraged with Scott Boras

    Trevor Bauer isn’t only MLB player enraged with Scott Boras

    Trevor Bauer went there. The Reds’ starting pitcher/provocateur often uses his Twitter account to voice sentiments that had been expressed only under the cloak of anonymity. On Wednesday, the right-hander touched a beach ball-sized nerve by exposing some tension within the players association as it tries to negotiate a 2020 restart plan with Major League …
  • Salary structure likely point of contention if MLB goes fan-less

    Salary structure likely point of contention if MLB goes fan-less

    Earlier this week, in a conversation with a veteran player representative, I asked if the Commissioner’s Office and the Players Association would be the scorpion from The Scorpion and the Frog. In the fable, the scorpion convinces a frog to carry him across the river. The frog says no because you will sting me. The …