Pete Abraham is the most smug, arrogant piece of shit on this list. I say "on this list" because Dan Shaughnessey is not on this list. He is the most smug, arrogant piece of shit. Read more

Great summary, but Wilner is only on-the-money if his pro-current-Jay assessments are correct. Read more

Nick Cafardo is a disaster. His writing is rambling, non-nonsensical, and full of bad ideas. He frequently phrases thoughts and opinions in the form of a question. Wouldn't you think this would drive people crazy? Read more

The Ray's real gems are Staats and BA. I defy anyone to show a better local broadcast in the bigs. Read more

Gonna throw Bob Klapsich of the Bergen Record in for consideration, if for no other reason than he's not afraid to rip into them when they're doing poorly. (See today's article on A-Rod: http://www.northjersey.com/columnists/Kla…) Admittedly, he may not be as much of a "beat" writer as Caldera since his stuff deals… Read more

Feinsand is the worst. Spends most of the game responding to only the dumbest comments people tweet so he can feel superior. Rarely engages in anything resembling good discussion. Thinks the beat writer inside jokes are hilarious. Has "his" players. Hates "new-age" stats. Sounds like a 75 year old female smoker on the… Read more

Roch Kubatko is by far the best Orioles reporter. His blog posts are very well-written and informative, and his sense of humor, while dry, is excellent. Read more

We would be doing a disservice if we did not mention Steve Melewski of MASN. Kubatko and him are the class of the Orioles beat. Melewski is fantastic reporting on the Orioles farm system and giving great insight and perspective. Both work tirelessly with updates and getting the feel in the clubhouse/opinion on the… Read more

Even though he was clearly a Red Sox fan, Pete Abe was hands-down the best Yankee beat writer. LoHud was can't-miss for any Yankees fan. Now I am not even sure what the best place to look is now. Read more

Ghiroli is extremely arrogant, and you can easily be turned off to her work because of it. I'm most inclined to say that Encina is the best. Read more

Speier from WEEI.com is the best for my money, his tag team partner Rob Bradford is very good as well, although he tends to become BFF's with some of the players, which may or may not skew his coverage (Josh Beckett was a prime example). Read more

Topkin is probably the best but Mooney's stuff actually isn't too bad. Both are extremely limited to how much info the front office tends to give away, which is essentially 0. And for the guy that said Cork Gaines is the best, you don't know what a beat reporter is because you actually have to show up to games to be… Read more

Britt, Dan, and Roch are all pretty solid actually. Their conversations on Twitter can be fairly amusing as well. I like Dan's game stories the best, though. Read more

As a Yankee fan, who had to deal with Pete Abe on LoHud, and now again on Boston.com, I can say that he is near the top as one of the worst out there. He rarely reports any "news" and most of his stories are about 500 words long (maybe a bit longer). He likes to push the buttons of the fans, to get support. Throw… Read more

I'm not a Yankee fan but I'm here in New York and can't avoid them. I don't have a best/worst here, but this guy's the one worth following: Read more

Ghiroli used to bug me on Twitter. Now I think she's the best of the bunch. Connolly is really good too. Couldn't give a shit about anyone else. Read more

What about Wilner? He's pretty terrible. Gets personally offended by every critique of the team and has got to be one of the biggest homers in baseball. And that's saying something. Read more

I'm a Yankees fan, but I'm also a big reader of Red Sox media (keep your friends close...). With that said, Abraham is hands down the best in my opinion. I also like MacPherson because he's really good with prospect news, which is incredibly helpful when you're fretting the Xander Bogaerts and Jackie Bradley's of the… Read more

The Toronto Star has the worst sports writers for both MLB & NBA... most Toronto sports writers are hacks. All Toronto sports franchises are shit. The bar is so low for everything to do with sports in Toronto (the same 2 companies own all the teams, all the sports networks and most of the hacks that moonlight on lame… Read more

Wallace Matthews and Andrew Marchand take as many pot shots as they can at the Yankees on their Twitter feeds. We get it...the Yankees spend a lot of money on ballplayers. No other beat writer on this list does what they do. Objectivity is certainly a lost art in their world. Read more