When the 2018 baseball season begins in late March, the national Sunday Night Baseball broadcast will have a new sound involving a game of musical Yankees chairs.
With one ex-Yankees third baseman slated to manage the club, the man who replaced Boone at third base in the Bronx will now do the same in the booth. Rodriguez will be paired with veteran baseball broadcaster Matt Vasgersian.
The story of how he got there--and who else was considered--involves another part of the Yankees family: Michael Kay.
Yes, according to New York Post media writer Andrew Marchand, the YES Network voice nearly found his way to the national gig alongside Alex Rodriguez.