Kay-Rod!
The entire shake-up of “Sunday Evening Baseball” will finish with the TV voice of the Yankees, Michael Kay, being part of the Alex Rodriguez “Manningcast” on ESPN, in line with sources.
The creation of Kay-Rod implies that Rodriguez won't be on weekly “Sunday Evening Baseball” telecasts anymore.
The brand new SNB workforce will encompass YES’ David Cone and Eduardo Perez as analysts, whereas Karl Ravech would be the play-by-player. Cone is anticipated to remain at YES, although his schedule will probably be decreased.
In the meantime, longtime ESPN SNB reporter Buster Olney’s position on the principle telecast is in query, The Publish has realized.
ESPN declined to remark.
Rodriguez favored working with Kay over Ravech and his new possession position atop the Minnesota Timberwolves made his desire to not work SNB each week, in line with sources. Rodriguez spent 4 years in the principle SNB sales space.
The precise format of the “Kay-Rod” broadcasts has not been finalized, however presumably will embody company, identical to Peyton and Eli. ESPN has been doing various “Megacasts” for years, so it has all kinds of selections to select of its bag.
The Kay-Rodriguez duo will do someplace between 10-12 video games. ESPN has about 25 weeks of “Sunday Evening Baseball.”
ESPN additionally may have the brand new first spherical of the playoffs, if that's agreed upon between the gamers and homeowners in a brand new collective bargaining settlement. Presumably, Kay and Rodriguez would name a playoff collection.
Kay will proceed to name his full slate of Yankees video games on YES.
Motion Community’s Darren Rovell first tweeted that Kay will probably be Rodriguez’s companion.
As for Olney, he has been an MLB fixture for practically twenty years for ESPN. Whereas he ceded the breaking information area to colleague, Jeff Passan, his finest position on the community was the dugout reporter on Sunday nights, the place he would practically at all times add insightful content material.
He should still contribute to SNB, however he could possibly be shifted to quite a lot of roles. ESPN’s Marly Rivera is one potential alternative for Olney, however ESPN might use extra of a committee strategy.
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