mlb

For baseball players not in the postseason, October is dark. Maybe you get surgery if you need it. Otherwise, you lay low, recover from the grind and enjoy the tranquility. Which made the Yankees October 2004 phone call to Steve Sparks, an active player entering free agency, all the more unusual. How Sparks reacted to …

A major league season like no other could fittingly begin this way: Gerrit Cole versus Max Scherzer — in Fredericksburg. Va. That is assuming it begins. The Post confirmed that the Nationals are looking at alternate sites to their Nationals Park home. The organization is concerned about Washington protocols that would impose a 14-day quarantine …

Alex Rodriguez will be spared the awkwardness of criticizing players who may end up under his employ. Rodriguez, who is currently leading a group bid with fiancée Jennifer Lopez to assume ownership of the Mets, will remain in his role as an analyst on ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball” this season, but the network will avoid …

Adam Ottavino isn’t a fan of a runner starting an extra-inning game on second base. And he has company in Chad Green and Jordan Montgomery. In Tuesday night’s intrasquad game, the Yankees put a runner on second several times. Ottavino started the top of the third inning with Tyler Wade on second. “It is not …

Forgetting whatever other barnacle issues have latched themselves onto the issue of masks, let’s be perfectly honest about something: They aren’t the most comfortable thing to get used to. That’s not political. That’s not controversial. That’s just how it is. If you wear glasses, they help fog those glasses up, constantly. On hot and humid …

Masahiro Tanaka is arriving in New York this weekend from Japan ahead of the Yankees holding a second spring training at Yankee Stadium which starts Wednesday. Since signing a seven-year deal for $155 million that didn’t include a $20 million posting fee to the Rakuten Golden Eagles, this will be Tanaka’s seventh trip to a …

Ryan Zimmerman is a two-time All-Star infielder who has played 15 years in the majors, all with the Washington Nationals. He holds most of the team’s career hitting records, and his two homers and seven RBIs last postseason helped the Nationals win their first World Series championship. Zimmerman has been offering his thoughts — as …

When spring training was knocked out by the coronavirus on March 12, the Yankees were the favorites to win the AL title despite knowing they would start the season with Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge, Aaron Hicks, James Paxton and Luis Severino on the injured list. Three-plus months later, the Yankees remain the favorites and, barring …

Pete Alonso hit his 20th homer on June 4, 2019, and Hyun-jin Ryu dropped his ERA to 1.35 and all 30 major league teams were in action, moving more than half the league on this date (19 teams in all) to at least 60 games played. As we all try to grasp what may be …

Major League Baseball may have just settled the 2020 season with its players after three grueling months of labor negotiations, but now some teams have set their sights on hosting fans in ballparks despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Houston Astros apparently are one of those teams. “That’s the plan,” Astros owner Jim Crane told …