Joel Sherman (born March 17/18, 1964) is a sportswriter for the New York Post. He is also a baseball insider with MLB Network and co-hosts with Jon Heyman the baseball podcast The Show.
Early life Sherman was born and raised in Canarsie in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from NYU in 1985.
Sherman worked for both the in-house Washington Square News and the UPI while at NYU.
Career Sherman joined the New York Post in 1989 as an intern and later served as a beat writer writing about the New York Yankees from 1989 to 1995. Since 1996 he has served as the paper's national baseball columnist. He also writes a column called "Joel Sherman's 3 Things" for the paper.
In 2013, Sherman joined MLB Network as an insider. In this role he frequently appears on shows like MLB Now and MLB Central.
Sherman has been a voter for the National Baseball Hall of Fame since 1998. He appears on MLB Network's annual Hall of Fame election day coverage.
In 2006, he wrote Birth of a Dynasty: Behind the Pinstripes with the 1996 Yankees.
Personal life Sherman is Jewish. He married Jillian Schwelder in 1992 and they have two children.
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External links MLB Network bio NY Post archive