According to the latest tracking, it looks like a player – David Ortiz – will enter the baseball Hall of Fame when the results of voting by the eligible members of the Baseball Writers Association of American are announced on Tuesday. But the BBWAA poll … Read More

January is fast approaching, and for a certain kind of baseball fan, it means only one thing: it’s tracker time. For the uninitiated, this is the time of year when qualified members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America can choose to unveil their Hall … Read More

Major League Baseball players and owners returned to the virtual negotiating table on Thursday. But according to several reports, little or no progress was made in ending the lockout, threatening to delay the start of spring training next month and perhaps the regular season as … Read More

David Ortiz is not the greatest player in the Boston Red Sox’s long history. He was nowhere near the hit that Ted Williams was. He could not match Carl Yastrzemski’s three batting titles, 18 All-Star picks and seven gold gloves. He did not dominate the … Read More

Major League Baseball owners and players are scheduled to meet on Thursday in their first talks since the clubs introduced a lockout on Dec. 2, according to several reports. As a nod to the COVID-19 omicron rise, the meeting is expected to be virtual. The … Read More

Former Mets and Yankees pitcher and current YES Network analyst David Cone will join play-by-play man Karl Ravech and analyst Eduardo Perez to form a new “Sunday Night Baseball” stand for ESPN, the network announced Friday. The trio will work on ESPN’s list of 25 … Read More

It turned out that it was a short stay at the Olympics. Three years and three votes ago, I made the decision to scale down my Hall of Fame votes to a more select group, so to speak, no-brainer, instead of working the margins to … Read More

Major League Baseball’s 26-year-old peace at work ended at midnight on Wednesday, when what many feared was inevitable finally happened: the sport’s first lockout since 1990 became a reality. With the expiration of the collective agreement, the owners essentially closed baseball indefinitely, a negotiating strategy … Read More

The Yankees’ to-do list out of season from Thursday – when Major League Baseball owners were expected to lock out the players after the sides failed to reach a new collective agreement before Wednesday’s deadline at. 23:59 – looks pretty much the same as it … Read More

Phase 1 of the Mets’ cultural makeover took place a year ago with Steve Cohen’s acquisition of the franchise. This week’s signing of Max Scherzer officially started Phase Two. Of course, there were a lot of things that happened in between. A few layoffs, some … Read More