American sports journalist (born 1961)
This article is about the sportswriter. For the British film producer, see
John Heyman
.
Jon Heyman
(born February 7, 1961) is an American baseball columnist for the
New York Post
, a baseball insider for
MLB Network
and
WFAN Radio
and co-host with
Joel Sherman
of the baseball podcast
The Show
.
Heyman has also appeared as a guest on numerous radio and TV programs, including
Mike and the Mad Dog
,
The Michael Kay Show
,
Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith
,
Mike'd Up
and
Jim Rome is Burning
.
Early years
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Heyman was born in
Santa Fe, New Mexico
and grew up in
Cedarhurst, New York
. He is Jewish and had his
bar mitzvah
at Temple Sinai in
Lawrence, New York
in 1974.
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Heyman graduated from
Lawrence High School
in 1979 and
Northwestern University
's
Medill School of Journalism
in 1983.
Professional career
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Heyman began his professional career as a sports writer with
The Daily Dispatch
in
Moline, Illinois
.
Heyman spent 16 years at
Newsday
, where he served as the
New York Yankees
beat writer, baseball columnist and general sports columnist. From 1999 to 2000, Heyman was a baseball columnist for
The Sporting News
.
Heyman joined
Sports Illustrated
in July 2006. At
SI
, Heyman generally reported on baseball news year-round and wrote a baseball notes column called The Daily Scoop for
SI.com
. The Daily Scoop ran most weekdays during the baseball season and twice a week during the offseason.
In 2009, Heyman joined the newly launched
MLB Network
as a baseball insider. In the
Sports Illustrated
magazine, Heyman frequently wrote an "Inside Baseball" column. In December 2011, Heyman left
Sports Illustrated
to cover baseball for
CBS Sports
following the 2011 MLB Winter Meetings.
[2]
In 2016, Heyman left CBS Sports and joined the FanRag Sports Network as an MLB insider and senior writer for Today's Knuckleball.
In April 2022, Heyman joined the
New York Post
as a baseball columnist. He and fellow
New York Post
baseball columnist Joel Sherman soon after launched a podcast entitled
The
Show
.
In December 2022, Heyman infamously tweeted "Arson
(sic)
Judge
appears headed to the
Giants
." Minutes later, Heyman deleted the tweet and issued a follow-up tweet reading: "Giants say they have not heard on Aaron Judge, [my] apologies for jumping the gun."
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In a New York Post article published December 2023 addressing the conclusion of Shohei Ohtani free agency, Heyman made numerous controversial statements regarding the possibility of Ohtani signing in Toronto, including "...this is much better for Major League Baseball." "Toronto is a beautiful city, too, but for non-hockey sports, there’s a small-time feel to the place." "The Jays may have been a better opportunity for marketing dollars because they represent an entire country ? certainly for the team and maybe for him ? but he has to live, too." "LA is where Ohtani belongs. Just glad he knew that, too."
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