Joel Sherman

PORT ST. LUCIE — Of all our team sports, baseball is probably the one in which cohesion is least important. In football, for example, watching the synchronized Super Bowl blitzes of the Seahawks — and the lack of adequate group adjustment from the Patriot... See more

If what you were missing in your life was a 2,000-plus-word deep dive into the Yankees finding a righty bat, do I have a column for you. Let’s start here: Do they actually need two righty bats? 1. The ideal would be someone who could play multiple positio... See more

The Mets improved the potential at the top of their rotation with the breakout late last season of Nolan McLean and the acquisition late in this offseason of Freddy Peralta . So the fate of the rotation does not rest as heavily on Sean Manaea and Kodai Se... See more

Cody Bellinger will cost the Yankees more toward the luxury tax payroll in 2026 than Aaron Judge — a lot more. There are intricate rules in the collective bargaining agreement that have a near poison pill type impact for the Yankees when it comes to Belli... See more

I believer that if there were no such thing as fans that David Stearns would have traded Pete Alonso, Edwin Díaz and Brandon Nimmo upon taking over Mets baseball operations following the 2023 season. Being a native New Yorker who grew up a Mets fan, Stear... See more