How pro baseball is returning to Staten Island — with help from Edgardo Alfonzo and the ‘SNL’ cast

Edgardo Alfonzo, just lately named supervisor of the Staten Island FerryHawks, is welcomed aboard by the Atlantic League growth group's basic supervisor, Gary Perone.
courtesy of Gary Perone

Gary Perone, a newly minted basic supervisor, can do one thing proper now that his 30 Main League Baseball equivalents can't.

He can name Scott Boras and talk about Carlos Correa.

“If he needs to play, I’ll give him a contract proper now,” a laughing Perone, who runs the Staten Island FerryHawks, advised The Submit of Correa. “He doesn’t have to attend for this factor to be over.”

Odds are Correa, the free-agent shortstop, will endure Rob Manfred’s lockout — the principles of which stop membership officers from partaking anybody who occupied a 40-man-roster spot on the conclusion of final season — and land large bucks someplace in MLB. For all the success of the Atlantic League, which is including the FerryHawks as an growth franchise, it could possibly’t fairly match its guardian league on the subject of membership payrolls.