New Bedford, Mass. native and New York Yankees beat writer Peter Abraham is leaving his post at The Journal News after nearly 10 years and taking on every Boston sports journalists dream, being the newest recruit at The Boston Globe covering the Boston Red Sox.
Abraham announced the news on The LoHud Yankees Blog around 7 p.m. Thursday night and said that it was not an easy decision for him.
From his blog:
“But it wasn’t an easy call. I have literally not slept for 48 hours pondering this decision. The Journal News has treated me better than I had any right to expect and tried very hard to convince me to stay. I also really, really love covering the Yankees.”
Abraham will not only write about the Sox in print, but also blog on Boston.com. At The Journal News he covered the Yankees and New York Mets. Prior to that, he was the beat writer for UConn basketball for The Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin for 13 seasons.
The UMass-Amherst graduate got his first gig part-time at The Standard Times covering high school sports back in the day.
That is actually very interesting, a Mass. native who loves covering the Yankees and will now be covering his hometown team. What will readers think of this?
And if Abraham is coming aboard, does this mean someone else is leaving?
Amalie Benjamin? Adam Kilgore?
Certainly it can’t be Nick Cafardo or Tony Massarotti.
My bet is Adam Kilgore because I doubt they are creating another new position unless things are being shift around because of the latest departure in Mike Reiss.
I guess we will see within the next two weeks.
It’s been quite the changing of the guard over the last year and a half at the Globe. Here are all of the big moves since April of 2008:
Boston Celtics
Peter May – takes buyout guest appearances for Yahoo! Sports and Globe
Marc J. Spears – leaves Denver Post goes to Globe; leaves Globe goes to Yahoo! Sports
Columnists
Jackie MacMullan – takes buyout goes to ESPN.com, guest Globe correspondent
Tony Massarotti – leaves Boston Herald goes to Boston Globe/Boston.com
Boston.com/bloggers
Chad Finn – promoted from copy editor to Boston.com blogger
Editors
Ken Fratus – (asst. sports editor) takes buyout goes to ESPN in Bristol, Conn.
Reid Laymance – (senior asst. sports editor) takes buyout goes to St. Louis Post Dispatch
Boston Red Sox
Gordon Edes – leaves Globe goes to Yahoo! Sports
Amalie Benjamin – promoted to beat writer
Adam Kilgore – leaves Washington Post goes to Globe
New England Patriots
Mike Reiss – leaves Globe goes to ESPNBoston.com
That’s what happens when you intern during all of this, you actually remember it all unfolding in front of your eyes and continue to cover it afterwards.
Amanda Bruno is a freelance sportswriter for The Springfield Republican and also writes weekly features for the Plus Papers on Wednesdays. She also writes over at Batter-up with Bruno where she shares her thoughts about the Boston Red Sox and the Boston sports media. You can follow her on Twitter @batterupbruno and can reach Amanda through email at brunosportshawk [at] gmail.com.
You guys will love him. He had the best Yankees blog going on. His site was the 1st one everyone would go to for info. He provides a lot of great and quick information while giving a lot of insider stories. His analysis at times can be shoddy like the typical MSM overreactions. He doesn’t really like A-rod much (has taken a lot of cheap shots at him) so you guys will like that. All in all, you guys should be lucky he will be covering there. You’ll enjoy his blogging and story-writing.
Oh, and he grew up a Sox fan and absolutely loves his Patriots so you guys will like him that much more. He doesnt show any bias (except against A-rod of course but which NY sportswriter doesnt?) so you cant tell which team he rooted (claims he roots for no one now and I believe him) for.
Yea, he is very dedicated and no other beat writer did even half of what he did on his blog. I mean, he’d have post up 2-3 AM at times for his readers. This is our loss and your gain. He ALWAYS had a post for the game and a recap no matter how late it would end.
I can honestly say that he was the only Yankees mainstream media blog that I followed. He always tells you how it is.
I’m looking forward to him at the Globe.
Tells it the way it is? What does that even mean?
He’s a hack. The globe continues to go down hill.
I’ll be the judge for myself once I start reading his stuff for the Globe.
Honestly I don’t know too much about him because he’s covered the Yankees.