Ben Sheets

Ok, folks. We are about 15 minutes from the scheduled first pitch of 8:39. Have at it. We'll give you plenty of blow-by-blow and second guess the managers ad nauseum. Top of 1st: Cleveland's Cliff Lee had an easy 1-2-3......

I suppose I should do some sort of analysis of my own about the All-Star Game ratings released by Fox this afternoon. But I don't feel like it. And, really, there is nothing outrageously newsworthy here. The game attracted a......

Mets (76-61) vs. Brewers (80-56) Johan Santana (12-7) 2.70 ERA 159 SO vs Ben Sheets (12-7) 3.05 ERA 144 SO The Phillies were effective in either fouling off Santana's pitches or taking them over the fence, forcing the Mets ace......

That's what the Mets hope to be doing anyway as we finish off this Labor Day weekend. Here's a few notes from this morning: -- The Pedro Rules? Pedro Martinez returned to New York to work out this week at......

Good evening Mets enthusiasts, I'm Chris Mascaro and I'll be bringing you all of tonight's live game action, as the Metropolitans (77-61) take on the Brewers (80-57) in the middle game of a three-game set from Miller Park in Milwaukee.......

Have to say that was a little surprising. Sweeping the Brewers? I know the Mets didn't face the incredible C.C. Sabathia, and Ben Sheets only lasted five innings because of a groin injury, but this is a first-round playoff matchup......

Now that the World Series is over, the hot stove season can officially begin. So what should the Yankees do? Everyone knows their top priority is starting pitching, and ideally they'd land CC Sabathia. There have been all sorts of......

By Benjamin Kabak In the pages of Newsday today, Wallace Matthews posed a question upon which no Yankee fan really wants to dwell: What if CC Sabathia just doesn't want to play in the Bronx for the Yankees? Matthews argues......

By Michael Axisa It's been 19 days since the Yanks slapped a six-year, $140 million-contract offer down in front of CC Sabathia and his agent Greg Genske, but they haven't gotten so much as a counteroffer in return. While everybody......

Lots to talk about from the meeting with Brian Cashman: First, this strong quote on negotiations with CC Sabathia: "We're not being played. We're not being manipulated. We're not being used. I just think he's making an informed decision." In......

Joe Girardi just had his half-hour meeting with the media (every manager has one). He happened to follow shortly after Joe Torre and the former and current Yankees manager greeted one another with a hug then chatted for a few......

Regis Courtemanche of Metsblog.com is our guest blogger for today. Derek Lowe's agent Scott Boras thinks that the Mets should spend like the thriftless Yankees recently did for A.J. Burnett, roughly $16 million per season, or $4 million more per......