Bill Madden

Move over John Fisher, baseball has a new worst owner. After grossly overpaying for the Miami Marlins in 2017 ($1.2 billion), Bruce Sherman is now systematically destroying them.

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Bill Madden: Marlins owner Bruce Sherman is embarrassing baseball with his Miami moves

May 12, 2024 at 11:12 a.m.

Move over John Fisher, baseball has a new worst owner. After grossly overpaying for the Miami Marlins in 2017 ($1.2 billion), Bruce Sherman is now systematically destroying them.

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Bill Madden: Reminder to the Yankees that mega contracts rarely pay dividends

May 4, 2024 at 3:26 p.m.

Baseball got the saddest of possible news this week: Mike Trout, who in 2019 was on his way to going down as one of the greatest players in the game’s...

It’s only April. Certainly no time to be making any definitive assessments about anything in baseball, which is why when it comes to the Yankees there’s just no telling yet what this team is.

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Bill Madden: With Aaron Judge struggling, starting pitching is leading the way for the Yankees

April 27, 2024 at 10:39 a.m.

It’s only April. Certainly no time to be making any definitive assessments about anything in baseball, which is why when it comes to the Yankees there’s just no telling yet...

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Bill Madden: Early success of Mets pitching staff changes the outlook for the season

April 20, 2024 at 4:32 p.m.

David Stearns, the Mets' president of baseball operations, had a somewhat surprising early April “state-of-the-team” press conference last week ostensibly to sing the praises of his manager Carlos Mendoza for...

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Carl Erskine, Brooklyn Dodgers great and last of the ‘Boys of Summer,’ dies at 97

April 16, 2024 at 4:08 p.m.

Carl Erskine, the humble Hoosier who pitched two no-hitters for the 1950’s Brooklyn Dodgers and was the last of the fabled “Boys of Summer” has died. Erskine, 97, died Tuesday...

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Bill Madden: Baseball’s obsession with velocity, not pitch clock, to blame for rash of injuries

April 13, 2024 at 4:35 p.m.

It seems every week another top shelf major league starting pitcher is going down with an elbow injury, most of them requiring season-ending Tommy John surgery.

One week into the baseball season and New Yorkers were clamoring to know: Are the Yankees really this good and the Mets really this bad?

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Bill Madden: How good are the Yankees? How bad are the Mets?

April 6, 2024 at 10:30 a.m.

One week into the baseball season and New Yorkers were clamoring to know: Are the Yankees really this good and the Mets really this bad?

I realize this is the time of year — especially in New York — where fans dream World Series dreams, but it just ain’t happening with either the Mets or the Yankees.

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Bill Madden: Excitement of Opening Day will quickly fade for Yankees, Mets

March 30, 2024 at 12:04 p.m.

I realize this is the time of year — especially in New York — where fans dream World Series dreams, but it just ain’t happening with either the Mets or...

To hear Steve Cohen tell it the other day, the Mets’ farm system is more “stacked’ than ever before and the future couldn’t be brighter. But when will they allow it to be?

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Bill Madden: Steve Cohen and the Mets need to give their top prospects a shot at the big leagues

March 23, 2024 at 10:30 a.m.

To hear Steve Cohen tell it the other day, the Mets’ farm system is more “stacked’ than ever before and the future couldn’t be brighter. But when will they allow...

When Gene Michael was heading up the Yankee baseball operations and in the process of building the 1996-01 dynasty, he had one primary credo when it came to trades — on which he was uncompromising: Never give up top prospects for an unsigned player.

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Bill Madden: From pitching depth to financial concerns, Juan Soto deal might not add up for Yankees

March 16, 2024 at 3:50 p.m.

When Gene Michael was heading up the Yankee baseball operations and in the process of building the 1996-01 dynasty, he had one primary credo when it came to trades —...

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