Joel Sherman has been at the Post since 1989, serving as Yankees beat writer from 1989-95 and baseball columnist since 1996. His Hardball blog won a 2008 Best Sports Blog honor from the Associated Press Managing Editors Association.
Joel’s books include "Birth of a Dynasty, Behind the Pinstripes with the 1996 Yankees." He served as a weekly baseball analyst on New York 1 from 2000-05, was a regular contributor on the MSG Network from 2000-08, and was part of the My 9 Yankees postgame show for the past two seasons.
He graduated from NYU in 1985.
Clues are being dispensed. Jose Reyes was hitting third. Jenrry Mejia was being compared with Mariano Rivera. Kelvim Escobar essentially was exiled before even throwing a bullpen session. Perhaps Jerry Manuel would...
March 07, 2010 2:03 AM
PORT ST. LUCIE — I understand the optimism. It is March. It is 0-0 records all over the landscape, including Flushing. So the Mets are upbeat, full of faith. They want to believe last season is no longer a disaster,...
March 04, 2010 2:41 AMPORT ST. LUCIE — These are the 2010 Mets and their greatest curse just might be that they follow the 2009 Mets. This is their closest relative, and their closest relative was a screw up. The Mets want a clean slate....
March 03, 2010 1:56 AM
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Perfect. How many times, of late, has it worked that way for the Mets? Jerry Manuel moves Jose Reyes into the No. 3 slot and the first time he bats yesterday in the Mets' lone intrasquad game of...
March 02, 2010 12:00 AM
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Jose Reyes stood in front of his locker early yesterday morning and delivered a performance that should encourage the Mets as much as anything he has done with his legs so far this spring. The...
March 01, 2010 12:00 AM
Robinson Cano is 27 now and more than 3,000 plate appearances into his major league career. He is the third-highest-paid second baseman in the game, his $9 million ranking just behind Philadelphia’s Chase Utley and...
February 28, 2010 4:43 AM
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Jerry Manuel could have play-acted that Kelvim Escobar is still well ahead of schedule, still in his plans as the eighth-inning guy. At this point, however, that would have necessitated the good...
February 28, 2010 12:00 AMTAMPA -- Before we move on to Derek Jeter's next contract, let's appreciate the 10-year deal that is concluding this season -- because it is a triumph for the Yankees. Jeter began this contract a decade ago as an...
February 27, 2010 12:00 AMTAMPA — The word “boli” was never mentioned. There was no army of image consultants just off camera. No need this time for the awkward presence of teammates. Alex Rodriguez yesterday faced the media in the same place...
February 26, 2010 3:26 AMTAMPA — Derek Jeter is a marvel — and he has 2,700-plus hits. Yeah, the baseball stuff is impressive. How can it not be with the five rings and the .317 lifetime average and the 10 All-Star games? But that merely puts...
February 25, 2010 2:40 AM
TAMPA -- The lefty-hitting outfielder had played his entire career in the Midwest for the team that drafted him. He was then traded to the Yankees in his prime, and immediately shifted to left field while trying to...
February 24, 2010 12:00 AM
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Johnny Damon sounded as if he were auditioning for the Detroit Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Short of wearing an "I [heart] Motown" bumper sticker on his forehead, Damon did just about everything...
February 23, 2010 12:00 AM
TAMPA -- For the record, I hate conventional wisdom. I hate echoing what everyone else says just because after a while anything repeated over and over kind of sounds like indisputable fact, even if it is nonsense....
February 22, 2010 12:00 AM
TAMPA — Spring training is about people, not results. The results, after all, are hostage to how exhibitions are played. Starters play pieces of games at a pace that honors the coming 162-game schedule and not that day...
February 21, 2010 2:43 AMTAMPA -- CC Sabathia aimed a fastball as if trying to throw it to the outside corner against a righty hitter and it whipped fully across the plate, forcing Jorge Posada to readjust quickly to catch it. This was not...
February 21, 2010 12:00 AMCLEARWATER, Fla. -- Nei ther New York team participated in the offseason blockbuster that involved three teams and two Cy Young winners. Nevertheless the Yankees were big winners and the Mets big losers for this...
February 20, 2010 12:00 AMTAMPA -- Enjoy it. Soak it in. You will not see anything like it again any time soon. You are watching the final chapters of someone described by Phil Hughes as "larger than life" and by Brian Cashman as a "rock...
February 19, 2010 12:00 AM
TAMPA -- The party pavilion be hind the third base stands at Steinbrenner Field has become the Yankees' House of Shame. It was there last February that Alex Rodriguez faced his steroid inquiry while teammates...
February 18, 2010 12:00 AM
This was a good offseason to be a young ace as Felix Hernandez, Josh Johnson, Tim Lincecum and Justin Verlander all received multi-year contracts. It was a bad offseason to be an older, defensively deficient player such...
February 14, 2010 2:28 AMThink about who Alex Rodriguez was at this time last year. On the weekend before spring training opened, he was exposed by Sports Illustrated as a steroid cheat. His already low likeability level sank further. His...
February 12, 2010 12:00 AM
Joe Girardi sees a lineup puzzle. Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui and Melky Cabrera have been removed. Curtis Granderson, Nick Johnson and probably Brett Gardner have been added. The puzzle has many pieces, with Girardi...
February 11, 2010 2:45 AM
The biggest drama of the Yankees’ 2007-08 offseason played out publicly and messily with the divorce of Joe Torre. Joe Girardi took over and Brian Cashman felt it was improper to drop another longrunning drama onto...
February 10, 2010 2:41 AM
With the Mets, it is difficult to determine whether they are trying to spin the news or are just delusional. Consider the state of the roster: For most of this offseason, they acknowledged a desire to upgrade at...
February 09, 2010 2:30 AM
It is easy to demonize Omar Minaya for the Mets’ ills, and I am not here to praise him. I do think the job of Mets GM is too big for Minaya; that his deficits in areas of communication, organization and ability to...
February 07, 2010 2:28 AM
It was impossible to ignore, and the Yankees didn't ignore it. Words were not needed. Joba Chamberlain's body language screamed confidence and the scoreboard flashed 97 mph. Here at the end of his most taxing...
February 03, 2010 12:00 AM
Early in the fall of 1997, at the outset of his first offseason as Mets' general manager, Steve Phillips restructured his front office. He lured Omar Minaya from Texas to be his assistant GM and hired a friend, Jim...
February 01, 2010 12:00 AM
Johnny Damon wanted the Yankees and the Yankees wanted Johnny Damon. But in the end, pride and inflexibility on both sides scuttled a covert, last-second attempt to stay together. So one of the intriguing questions of...
January 28, 2010 4:19 AM
Brett Gardner is a useful player. But he is useful in that good third-down back kind of way, more Darren Sproles than Chris Johnson. His speed can change the pace of a game in spots, but he becomes less effective...
January 27, 2010 12:00 AMWell, the good vibrations associated with the signing of Jason Bay lasted about a week for the Mets. Because it might be a new year, but an old problem has revisited the Mets; the problem that both paralyzed and...
January 14, 2010 12:00 AM
Jason Bay still has to pass a physical (no sure thing). He still has to pass a stink test that he actually wants to be a Met (no sure thing). And he still has to pass through several hundred games as a two-way player...
December 30, 2009 1:55 AM
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