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Ken Davidoff

Ken Davidoff

Ken Davidoff joins The Post after completing a nearly 11-year run at Newsday, where he covered the Yankees from 2001 through 2004 then became their baseball columnist. Prior to that, he worked at The Record from 1994 until 2001. He has been honored twice by the Associated Press Sports Editors, once for breaking news and once for enterprise reporting. He can be seen regularly on "Sports Xtra" on FOX 5 in New York. Ken graduated the University of Michigan in 1993.

Blog: Baseball Insider

Latest Columns

  • Cash: No rush for Tex return

    On a gorgeous day in Rye, Brian Cashman didn’t want to send a cloud all the way down to Tampa. It’s just that the Yankees’ general manager, 16 years on the job, has seen way too much to place optimism where it doesn’t...   May 21, 2013

    From Yankees
  • Yankees winning with solid pitching

    At 42, Darren Oliver is baseball’s second-oldest player, behind only 43-year-old Mariano Rivera. A 20-year big-leaguer, he has drifted in and out of the Yankees’ scope, with his many stops including the 1996 Rangers,...   May 20, 2013

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  • Banged-up Bombers just keep on rolling along

    Someone once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. These 2013 Yankees have put a twist on that: They’re doing the same thing over and over, and the rest...   May 18, 2013

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  • Hal sees Yankees on right course

    From the inside, this Yankees’ quarter-season has been all about validation. So it should not surprise you the man running things wants to keep moving forward on all fronts. Robinson Cano, having risen to the challenge...   May 17, 2013

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  • Fred Wilpon quiet as Mets' awful play continues

    Another hellish week for the Mets. Good grief. Although in their defense, they hadn’t endured one of these since all the way back in ... April. So what does their patriarch think of this? Mets chairman and CEO Fred...   May 16, 2013

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  • Gem by Mets' Harvey gets a near perfect score

    With life returning to normal for the Mets last night — a light Citi Field crowd witnessing a low-profile matchup between two losing teams — the electricity from Matt Harvey’s spectacular outing Tuesday still lingered...   May 09, 2013

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  • Phil proves integral to Yanks

    The word that came to mind yesterday, when watching Phil Hughes dominate the majors’ best offensive team, was “indispensable.” On this Yankees team — when scoring enough runs to win presents a daily conundrum as...   May 05, 2013

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  • Crucial for Yankees to not overuse Hafner, keep him healthy

    Brian Cashman calls Travis Hafner “a field-goal kicker.” In that case, the Yankees’ designated hitter has been an in-his-prime Morten Andersen here in 2013. If Hafner has proven a particularly valuable specialist,...   May 02, 2013

    From Yankees
  • After shoring up fielding, hitting is next for Yankees' Nunez

    April is in the books now, and another Yankees victory brought a most interesting grade from one of the teachers to one of the pupils. Eduardo Nunez’s single and two doubles helped the Yankees outlast the awful Astros,...   May 01, 2013

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  • Yankees pitchers key to team's success

    Once Lyle Overbay became yesterday’s lucky contest winner — “Get released by another team, join the Yankees and become a Bronx hero!” — the Yankees edged the Blue Jays once again, 3-2 at Yankee Stadium, to lift their...   April 29, 2013

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  • Girardi's makeshift Yankees finding ways to win

    Travis Hafner and Vernon Wells. For crying out loud. Who saves the Yankees’ behinds next year? Edgar Renteria and Hank Blalock? The Yankees are mocking the very notion of organizational depth. Of statistical analysis....   April 28, 2013

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  • Amazin’s must be set to deal if Nats, Phils flop

    What if this is really the landscape of the National League East and not just an April mirage? What if the Phillies truly are unraveling and the Nationals can’t shake what looks like a hangover from their joyous 2012?...   April 27, 2013

    From Mets
  • Despite loss, Yankees staying afloat without stars

    ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Yankees prepared late last night to depart the Tampa area, an item on their itinerary at least four times annually. The last time they did so, back on March 28, injury-fueled chaos swirled...   April 25, 2013

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  • Yankees, Rays find success with veteran castoffs

    ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays played the first game of their existence here in 1998, and for their first 15 years, they have shared just one common denominator with the Yankees: Both teams played in the American...   April 24, 2013

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  • Yankees' Sabathia brushes off lack of velocity

    ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Here’s the count on CC Sabathia: Three winning starts. Two losing starts. One missing heater. Add them up and you get, to steal a “Seinfeld” line, a pretty big matzo ball hanging out there....   April 23, 2013

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  • Latest setback for Yankees' Jeter casts doubt on future

    Few, if anyone, have better grasped baseball’s fundamental nature than Derek Jeter. A lack of emotion, the ability to shake off whatever occurred the prior day, serves you extremely well. So perhaps Jeter, in this dark...   April 19, 2013

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  • Injuries not major concern as long as Yankees keep winning

    Imagine how tense life at Yankee Stadium could be right now. Envision what we would be discussing if the Yankees’ 1-4 start had kept snowballing. Mark Teixeira, with some prompting, did just that. He proposed a grim...   April 18, 2013

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  • Mets will have compelling second half regardless of how April turns out

    By now, Mets fans should be wise to the charms of an encouraging April. We’re talking about a team that, in the prior four seasons, has put together a collective second-half record of 118-178. Over the same period, the...   April 17, 2013

    From Mets
  • Last of the 42s, Mo’s consistency a model to Yankees' pen proteges

    The Mariano Rivera Farewell Tour makes a particularly notable stop tonight. When the Yankees host the Diamondbacks, it will be the last time Rivera won’t have the number 42 all to himself on the field. For Rivera’s...   April 16, 2013

    From Yankees
  • Dominant Kuroda key to Yankees' success

    Home after receiving the friendly service of Cleveland’s pitching staff, these are the April 2013 Yankees we expected to see. And these April 2013 Yankees, as they displayed once again last night in The Bronx, can...   April 15, 2013

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  • Bombers escape with one lucky victory

    Well, that was a well-earned victory over the feisty Orioles Friday night at Yankee Stadium, wasn’t it? Scrappy and gutty, the kind of game that the homer-happy Yankees of the prior few seasons would have lost. No? Not...   April 13, 2013

    From Yankees
  • Gonzalez, Ethier are players who could strengthen Mets in 2013 and beyond

    You’ve mastered Phase One of the Mets’ rebuild. You know that Travis d’Arnaud, Ike Davis, Matt Harvey, Zack Wheeler and David Wright hope to be, in the roughest sense, what Wally Backman, Ron Darling, Dwight Gooden,...   April 11, 2013

    From Mets
  • Collins must give Baxter long look in Mets leadoff role

    John Buck won’t finish this season with 292 RBIs — shoot, if he keeps hitting like this, he might not even be a Met by July 31 — while Jon Niese very well could finish 2013 as the frontline starting pitcher he appears...   April 07, 2013

    From Mets
  • Amazin’s can’t let bottom-feeders off hook

    Compared to the Miami Marlins, the Mets can seem eternally stable and reasonable, decent and generous. An organization with a plan and a conscience. It’s probably more important that the Mets, when held up against the...   April 06, 2013

    From Mets
  • Dynamic duo does its part to restore order for Yankees

    The Yankees and their fans had a fever, to borrow from Christopher Walken in the classic “Saturday Night Live” sketch. And the only prescription? Pettitte and Rivera. Victory number one for these 2013 Yankees, a much...   April 05, 2013

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  • The Mets and nurturing young pitchers

    At the Mets’ Citi Field workout on Sunday, Terry Collins said, “The second half this year will probably be maybe the most important part, to make sure we can maintain our start.”  It was my Post teammate Dan Martin who...   April 04, 2013

    From Baseball Insider
  • It’s early for Yankees, but beware warnings

    Life presents us with warnings to ignore and warnings to heed. Storm clouds that will soon dissipate and icebergs that won’t be bypassed. In which column would you put this Yankees season so far? With their second...   April 04, 2013

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  • New deal with Yankees could cure Cano's misery

    There has been a natural resolution to Robinson Cano’s Walk Year Blues all along. It just happened to turn 180 degrees with his stunning agency change Tuesday. With Scott Boras as Cano’s agent, it made sense to call off...   April 04, 2013

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  • No long ball for Yankees — no smallball either

    Well, on the bright side, at least no one could accuse the Yankees of hitting too many home runs yesterday. It’s just one game. Just one 8-2 loss to the rival Red Sox on Opening Day, a taut contest turned sleeper during...   April 02, 2013

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  • Wright’s commitment to rebuild with Mets does fans proud

    “Scrappy.”  “Gritty.” “Team baseball.” Ready for your 2013 Mets season? I have no idea whether we’ll be using the above terms to describe this club six months from now. Yet as the Mets kick off their season against the...   April 01, 2013

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