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New York Post baseball columnist. MLB Network Insider. Podcast: The Show with Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman. Webcast: Pinstripe Post. Documentary: Bronx Zoo '90: Crime, Chaos, and Baseball. Book: Birth of a Dynasty

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Freddy Peralta’s Extension, Nolan McLean’s Team USA Moment + In Memory of Shannon Forde | The Show
YouTube video by New York Post Sports Freddy Peralta’s Extension, Nolan McLean’s Team USA Moment + In Memory of Shannon Forde | The Show

youtu.be/zHVAPBs3dRI 3 Things video: Peralta extension thoughts, McLean’s pathway to the WBC final and remembering the wonderful Shannon Forde.

04.03.2026 19:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

nypost.com/2016/03/04/sha… I have posted this column every year since Shannon’s passing to honor her memory and how great a person we lost. I can’t believe it has been a decade.

04.03.2026 16:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Brandon Sproat and Jett Williams are the right components to Brewers’ secret sauce Both players are more likely to begin the season in the minors, but again that is not a defect in the Brewers plan.

nypost.com/2026/03/03/s... The Mets received a top-of-the-rotation SP in Peralta. Here’s what the Brewers think they are receiving in Sproat and Williams.

04.03.2026 01:56 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Exclusive | Nolan McLean bestowed with potential massive Team USA honor Nolan McLean will play a large role for Team USA.

nypost.com/2026/03/03/s... Nolan McLean will start the WBC final if he is fully healthy and the U.S. gets there.

03.03.2026 18:34 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Nolan McLean is not only trending to return to pitch March 10 after being sick, but Team USA manager Mark De Rosa told The Post that McLean would start the March 17 final if all was good and the Americans get there.

03.03.2026 17:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Joel Sherman’s 3 Things I Think: How Team USA’s quest for WBC glory can only bolster Aaron Judge’s legacy Joel Sherman discusses Team USA ahead of the World Baseball Classic in his latest 3 Things video.

nypost.com/2026/03/03/s... 3 Things video: Team USA, Judge, McLean

03.03.2026 17:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Freddy Peralta’s track record could mean for a new contract with the Mets There are three potential avenues I see playing out.

nypost.com/2026/03/03/s... Thoughts on the many paths a Freddy Peralta extension with the Mets can (and still may not) go. Notes on Murakami, Acuna, Kelenic, Colt Emerson, more.

03.03.2026 16:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is Aaron Judge’s best chance to secure what’s missing from all-time resume This season stands out starkly for what boxes can still be checked in a distinguished career.

nypost.com/2026/03/02/s... Aaron Judge is the captain of two high-profile teams who give him two chances to spruce up a resume that nearly has it all.

03.03.2026 00:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nolan McLean’s Team USA debut on hold with Mets rookie feeling ill Nolan McLean was not with Team USA when workouts began Monday because he was feeling under the weather, according to a source.

nypost.com/2026/03/02/s... Why Nolan McLean was not at Team USA’s first workout.

02.03.2026 22:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hitting group: Judge, Bregman, Harper, Schwarber.

02.03.2026 21:53 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Team USA on the field together for the first time in preparation for the WBC

02.03.2026 21:09 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Joel Sherman’s 3 Things I Think: Sizing up the Dodgers This “unbeatable” Dodgers team has, in fact, shown that it can be beat.

nypost.com/2026/03/02/s... 3 Things video: On the Dodgers' dynasty and will it ever end, is it bad for baseball and more.

02.03.2026 18:55 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dodgers’ dynasty only helping baseball— but even Dave Roberts acknowledges the looming reality There’s no crying in baseball, so please, no tears about how the Dodgers are ruining the sport.

nypost.com/2026/03/01/s... I saw the last dynasty when many said it would never end and bemoaned what it was doing to the game. Rather than cry that the Dodgers are bad for baseball, step up and end their run.

02.03.2026 02:02 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Ryan Yarbrough of the Yankees is joining Team USA’s 30-man roster to replace Minnesota’s Joe Ryan (back) for the WBC. Ryan goes to the designated pitcher pool, which means he is eligible after each round.

01.03.2026 15:59 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2
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Exclusive | Brandon Nimmo tells The Post he was ‘numbed’ by Mets divorce he didn’t see coming Brandon Nimmo’s cellphone rang on Nov. 20 and David Stearns’ name came up on the screen, and in that moment, Nimmo knew something important was afoot.

nypost.com/2026/02/28/s... Brandon Nimmo spoke to The Post for nearly an hour about his exit from the Mets - why he thinks it happened and why he waived his no-trade to allow it.

28.02.2026 22:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Joel Sherman’s 3 Things I Think: With Randal Grichuk signing, who won’t make Yankees roster now? The Post’s MLB columnist digs into the Yankees’ roster construction and some decisions that need to be made before the season starts.

nypost.com/2026/02/27/s... 3 Things video: Everything you wanted to know about how the Yankees' 26-man roster might shake out, but were afraid to ask.

27.02.2026 18:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The questions shaping the Yankees’ roster race – and how it’ll all shake out Aaron Boone is not unlike a fanbase. He too is taking inventory and shaping and reshaping what his 26-man roster will look like come March 25 against the Giants.

nypost.com/2026/02/26/s... With a month to Opening Day, trying to surmise what the Yankees' 26-man roster will look like and the key issues around constructing it.

26.02.2026 23:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Randal Grichuk, who signed a minor league deal, will receive $2.5M if he makes the Yankees

26.02.2026 16:18 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Joel Sherman’s 3 Things I Think: The Martian’s mentor Joel Sherman’s 3 Things I Think video for Thursday focuses on Yankees youngster Jasson Dominguez.

nypost.com/2026/02/26/s... 3 Things video on Jasson Dominguez, Amed Rosario and Randal Grichuk and what it all means for the Yankees.

26.02.2026 15:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Once a ‘can’t-miss’ prospect, Amed Rosario could be key to salvaging Jasson Dominguez’s Yankees future The worst thing that ever happened to Jasson Domínguez was being nicknamed “The Martian.” The best might turn out being teammates with Amed Rosario.

nypost.com/2026/02/25/s... Jasson Dominguez lost a starting job late last season and gained someone in his Yankees life who knows this path well to help him through it.

26.02.2026 01:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Joel Sherman’s 3 Things I Think: Can ‘Bully Ball’ Yankees fight through AL East and beyond? Joel Sherman sizes up the Yankees in the American League and the AL East in his latest 3 Things video.

nypost.com/2026/02/25/s... 3 Things video on Yankees' October issue and dealing with a heavyweight AL East.

25.02.2026 16:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Any Yankees title hopes will have to go through baseball’s toughest division The Yankees are good every year. Usually very good. Eventually, though, they run up against a team in the playoffs that is no less than their equal and their season ends.

nypost.com/2026/02/24/s... When the Yankees have faced a playoff opponent at least as good as them, they have wilted in the Boone Era. Last year that was the Blue Jays. Now, if anything, the AL East is offering more obstacles than ever.

25.02.2026 01:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Joel Sherman’s 3 Things I Think: Why Ben Rice’s ascension is so critical to Yankees Joel Sherman dives into Ben Rice’s outlook in his latest 3 Things video.

nypost.com/2026/02/24/s... 3 Things video on Ben Rice -- a comparison, his importance to the team and how he fits into a few key roster decisions.

24.02.2026 17:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The questions the Yankees must answer to complete roster — with Ben Rice, Anthony Volpe wrinkles When it comes to the configuration of their positional group, the Yankees have many ways they could go and potentially many decisions to make.

nypost.com/2026/02/24/s... Trying to work through all the positional possibilities for the Yankees. And a thought on the Twins.

24.02.2026 15:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kyle Schwarber’s early path is one the Yankees hope Ben Rice can follow Squint. Can you see it?

nypost.com/2026/02/23/s... There are some key similarities between the early paths of Ben Rice and Kyle Schwarber -- Schwarber turned that into stardom. Can Rice stay on that path? Among, others, I asked Anthony Rizzo, who played with both early, about it.

23.02.2026 23:52 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Joel Sherman’s 3 Things I Think: Gerrit Cole ‘sees the horizon’ of return — and what that means for Yankees Joel Sherman watched Gerrit Cole pitch over the weekend and tells us how he looked. He asked the ace about when he thinks he’ll be back and got an answer from Max Fried on what Cole’s return to the…

nypost.com/2026/02/23/s... 3 Things video on Yankees rotation issues, including Cole, Gil, race for spots and how good it could be.

23.02.2026 15:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yankees can force Aaron Boone to make pitching decisions Joe Torre didn’t need to Joe Torre had seen enough to know that the decision would be made for him by performance and/or injury and — if not — then he would choose.

nypost.com/2026/02/22/s... Thinking about the Yankees’ potential rotation depth/quality and Luis Gil can mean to it.

23.02.2026 02:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The temptation is palpable — but this isn’t a sprint for Gerrit Cole Cole feels good — better even after throwing those 20 pitches to Trent Grisham, Jasson Domínguez and Aaron Judge.

nypost.com/2026/02/21/s... Gerrit Cole discusses the depths with which he missed pitching last year and yet why he still is disciplining himself not to rush back to what he loves so much.

22.02.2026 00:25 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why switch-hitters like Francisco Lindor have become a rarity in MLB Why in an age when teams are looking for every microscopic edge, is a single-player cheat code like a quality switch-hitter dwindling with far fewer efforts to create them in minor league labs, lik…

nypost.com/2026/02/21/s... When teams are looking for edges everywhere, why is there less emphasis on developing the cheat code that is a quality switch-hitter?

21.02.2026 18:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Electric’ Gerrit Cole is already giving Yankees fans reason to dream If you want to dream, Yankee fans, feel free to do so.

nypost.com/2026/02/20/s... Many hurdles remain as Gerrit Cole attempts to be Gerrit Cole again, but Friday was a very good day for him and the Yankees along the way.

21.02.2026 00:37 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0