ESPN had been hoping to hire David Cone to replace Jessica Mendoza on Sunday Night Baseball. According to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post, Cone has rebuffed ESPN’s advances and will continue to call New York Yankees games for YES Network.
Cone will call 75 Yankees games during the 2020 season for YES Network. That’s a major boon for the Yankees and YES Network. Cone is considered the shining light on what most fans believe is a mediocre broadcast team.
The Yankees broadcast team was ranked 16th in MLB by fan votes on Awful Announcing.