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. 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 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." 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." In December 2024, Heyman was involved in a verbal altercation with
WFAN host Keith McPherson. After McPherson brought up Heyman's now-infamous “Arson Judge” tweet and his relationship with agent
Scott Boras, Heyman accused McPherson of “questioning [his] integrity” and pledged that he was “done with WFAN” before abruptly ending the interview. ==References==