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.
The whole half inning made little sense. It was the bottom of the seventh yesterday. The Yankees trailed 2-1. There was one out and a runner on first. Orioles skipper Buck Showalter brought in lefty Mark Hendrickson...
September 09, 2010 4:01 AM
The 2009 Yankees season was filled with themes: * The first season in a new stadium. * The introduction of four new key members of the roster — A.J. Burnett, CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and Nick Swisher. * The follow...
September 05, 2010 4:13 AM
There are many ways to think about a lineup, but there is one inarguable concept when constructing a batting order: You want your best hitters to bat most frequently. So why does Derek Jeter continue to hit in one of...
September 04, 2010 12:00 AM
Alex Rodriguez turned 35 in July and limped onto the disabled list in August, and the correlation feels obvious — except not to A-Rod. Rodriguez does not believe his left calf strain is related to age. An injury is...
September 01, 2010 3:52 AM
For months, CC Sabathia was asked to comment on his pal, LeBron James, and now -- of all things -- Sabathia has become him. Like the Cavaliers with James, the Yankees only feel good about their starting five when the...
August 31, 2010 12:00 AMOn June 21, 1992, Tim Leary was pitching for the Yankees at Camden Yards and was caught by ESPN cameras pulling a piece of sandpaper out of his mouth, placed there moments earlier to conceal it from inquiring umpires....
August 29, 2010 4:30 AM
It was an event and celebration, a coming-out party and coronation. But if you were in Nationals Park on the night of June 8, you knew it was even more than that. Stephen Strasburg’s debut transcended the personal to...
August 28, 2010 2:28 AMThe worst-case scenario is transpiring for Mets ownership. The team is unlikely to play meaningful games in September. In fact, these games in late August stretch the meaning of meaningful. The Mets are 63-62 with...
August 25, 2010 12:00 AM
The exit was not as Lou Piniella had imagined. He entered as Cubs manager hoping to be a savior, to be the man who finally ended the century-plus, championship-less drought. He left without winning that ring, but with...
August 24, 2010 12:00 AMIn the past few days, both Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and hitting coach Kevin Long have expressed concerns about wearing out Robinson Cano. Sure the second baseman is just 27, a baby by comparison to the...
August 23, 2010 12:00 AMFor much of this summer, the Yankees have had the best record in the majors. They also have possessed the best run differential, often the best barometer of overall ability. So why on so many days do the Yanks seem to...
August 22, 2010 4:01 AMI tend not to moralize on steroids. That is not to be confused with condoning them. I think I understand why baseball players — among athletes of all types — took banned substances. People in all professions always...
August 21, 2010 4:31 AMLet's assume the Mets begin getting stuff right. They figure out the right person to succeed Jerry Manuel. They properly fortify their front office with better decision making around Omar Minaya or without him. They...
August 15, 2010 3:55 AMIn less than 24 hours, the Mets transitioned from the euphoria of their knuckleballer to the apologies of their knucklehead. Francisco Rodriguez shared one element in common with R.A. Dickey's one-hitter Friday...
August 15, 2010 12:00 AMThe Mets decided against the long-shot attempt to void the rest of Francisco Rodriguez's contract, and that is understandable because the case history in baseball was against them succeeding. But it is totally...
August 14, 2010 12:00 AMJeff Wilpon put out a one-sentence, 18-word statement yesterday and let that stand on its own merit to describe how “very disappointed” ownership was in Francisco Rodriguez’s “inappropriate behavior.” As statements go,...
August 12, 2010 10:58 PMCurtis Granderson hasn’t been very good this year. But he just might be the luckiest player in the majors. If he were playing for the old owner in his prime or in the old stadium or for a team that did not have the...
August 10, 2010 5:02 AM
Dustin Moseley still hurt when he ran in early January, still had not yet climbed up on a mound since undergoing August 2009 hip surgery similar to the kind Alex Rodriguez endured last year. He was being shunned by the...
August 09, 2010 3:04 AM
Early last week, with Alex Rodriguez struggling overall within his chase for 600 homers and Derek Jeter persisting in his worst season in the majors, one Yankees official turned to another and asked if the...
August 08, 2010 3:35 AMYou want to stay away from terms like “must win,” unless it really is a must, unless a magic number is about to evaporate and take a season with it. You certainly want to stay away from the term in the first week of...
August 08, 2010 3:01 AMWhat struck Andy Pettitte hardest when he left the Yankees for the Astros after the 2003 season was not separation anxiety from the only organization he had ever known or the elation of playing in his home city. No,...
August 07, 2010 3:54 AMIf Alex Rodriguez were a free agent after this season what kind of contract do you think he would receive? He is 35 now, just a year removed from hip surgery and in the midst of his worst full season. He is an...
August 06, 2010 12:00 AM
Alex Rodriguez never is going to be fully a Yankee. He never is going to be fully appreciated as a clean homer giant. He never is going to be beloved in a Hank Aaron kind of way. Too much exists in his past that never...
August 05, 2010 3:55 AM
Alex Rodriguez pointed from across the room. I was standing near the doorway of the Yankees’ clubhouse with Jack Curry and Mike Kay of YES, when A-Rod asked me where I had been. “You are my good luck charm,” he said,...
August 05, 2010 3:55 AMAs the flurry of trades unfurled in the final hours before yesterday’s deadline, it was easy to forget that the Mets still actually existed in the majors. Executive after executive, scout after scout reported that the...
August 01, 2010 2:52 AM
The Yankees repudiated their offseason at the trade deadline, acquiring players that pretty much amount to a do-over from a winter of poor shopping. But at least they acted. In this way they were like the Phillies...
August 01, 2010 12:00 AM
The Yankees completed a trade yesterday for Lance Berkman mainly for the following reason: Because they are the Yankees. Berkman did not fill a major need -- unless he reveals a late-career ability to set-up...
July 31, 2010 12:00 AMExecutives keep com plaining to me about this being the July 31 that put the "dead" in deadline. But for all the complaints of high prices and dormancy, Roy Oswalt became the third high-level starter (joining Cliff Lee...
July 30, 2010 12:00 AMBuck Showalter was star ing out at the back practice field at Fort Lauderdale Stadium. It was early in his first spring training as Yankee manager in 1992. He was watching Mel Hall be Mel Hall, which is to say...
July 30, 2010 12:00 AM
Pessimism about making deals always rules leading up to the trade deadline. It is one part strategy: Teams hope that by making it sound as if there is no way they would meet the current prices then those prices will go...
July 29, 2010 5:00 AM
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