Jon Heyman

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Baseball Columnist at New York Post

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Articles

Ryan Yarbrough adds to surprising Yankees emergence by conquering mighty Dodgers

4 days ago | nypost.com | Jon Heyman

Don’t miss Greg Joyce’s text messages from The Bronx and beyond — he’s giving Sports+ subscribers the inside buzz on the Yankees. LOS ANGELES — Maybe the Yankees finally found the key to beating LA: a junk-balling journeyman throwing at speeds below what they drive on the 405. And maybe, just maybe, Ryan Yarbrough, the former Dodger, had a little bit of needed inside info. That’s just a guess, of course.
Exclusive | Aaron Judge refuses to let his Babe Ruth-level numbers distract from ‘what matters’

4 days ago | nypost.com | Jon Heyman

Don’t miss Greg Joyce’s text messages from The Bronx and beyond — he’s giving Sports+ subscribers the inside buzz on the Yankees. LOS ANGELES — Now that basketball season is over in New York and the sun may soon be out to signal summer’s start, we can finally, fully start to appreciate the remarkable, ageless and selfless Aaron Judge, who may be having the greatest baseball season ever.
Yankees clearly still have long way to go to reach Dodgers' level

5 days ago | nypost.com | Jon Heyman

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees. LOS ANGELES — If the Yankees somehow make it back to the World Series, they have to hope it’s not a rematch. We don’t need that prescient Dodgers pre-World Series scouting report — you know, the one that predicted implosion for the Yankees — to understand why the Dodgers felt so confident back then.
The Aaron Judge-Shohei Othani race to be baseball’s best player has a clear leader

5 days ago | nypost.com | Jon Heyman

LOS ANGELES — This is undeniably a special time in baseball, with two of its greatest players ever — Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani — providing daily thrills. Don’t miss Greg Joyce’s text messages from The Bronx and beyond — he’s giving Sports+ subscribers the inside buzz on the Yankees.
Injury-riddled Dodgers facing a much different Yankees test this time around

6 days ago | nypost.com | Jon Heyman

Don’t miss Greg Joyce’s text messages from The Bronx and beyond — he’s giving Sports+ subscribers the inside buzz on the Yankees. LOS ANGELES — When last we saw these two marquee, mega-market teams match up, a talented but depleted Dodgers team authored a 4-1 World Series beatdown best recalled for L.A. ingenuity, a hobbled Freddie Freeman’s home run heroics and, of course, all those Yankee faux pas predicted in a prescient, pre-Series Dodgers scouting report.
Sandy Alcántara’s rough start hasn’t changed his trade deadline reality

1 week ago | nypost.com | Jon Heyman

Surprisingly, some still rate Sandy Alcántara, with an unsightly 8.47 ERA, as the No. 1 rotation trade candidate. “He has not been good, but stuff is the same,” one scout says. That says something about the love for Alcántara, a past Cy Young winner and great gamer who’s consistently throwing 98 mph but having command issues. But it also says something about who might not make it to market.
Tarik Skubal, Tigers 'not close' on deal with ace seeking record pact

1 week ago | nypost.com | Jon Heyman

The Tigers months ago tried to lock up the game’s best pitcher, Tarik Skubal, who finished a 13-K, no-walk shutout with a whiff on a 102.6-mph pitch (record starter velocity). But word is, the sides are “not close” to a deal. It’s not going to be easy even though Skubal is consistently positive about Detroit and the Tigers have only two players on the books past 2025: Javier Baéz and Colt Keith.
MLB Memorial Day superlatives: Biggest surprises, disappointments and more

1 week ago | nypost.com | Jon Heyman

Memorial Day is when gentlemen start their engines and the rest start evaluating baseball teams. So here goes:Orioles. They averaged 96 wins in 2023-24 and might be heading for 96 losses. The rotation and injuries are obvious problems. But bad mojo is cited, too. The fall was so precipitous they had no clear interim replacement after firing manager Brandon Hyde.
The reality behind Juan Soto’s slow start — even if the $765 million man doesn’t believe it

1 week ago | nypost.com | Jon Heyman

Don’t miss Mike Puma’s text messages from Queens and beyond — he’s giving Sports+ subscribers the inside buzz on the Mets. Juan Soto continued on his tour of rejected teams from his well-watched Soto Sweepstakes, with the Shohei Ohtani Dodgers in town to face Soto’s Mets following Soto’s foray to Fenway and his memorably loud and poorly received return to the Bronx.
Pete Crow-Armstrong’s looming Cubs payday comes with side of Mets regret

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Jon Heyman

The Cubs are making in-season overtures toward NL MVP candidate Pete Crow-Armstrong after offering him between $60 million and $70 million on a long-term deal in spring. They’re obviously willing to raise their bid, however, the ask is rising exponentially with PCA exploding. The Cubs were likely using Lawrence Butler ($65.5M) and Ezequiel Tovar ($63.5M) as comps in spring. They know they need new comps now.