Yankees broadcasts will have a different feel next year, as YES broadcaster and former Major Leaguer Ken Singleton announced in a tweet on Monday that the 2018 season will be his final campaign behind a microphone.
Singleton, 70, has worked Yankees games since 1997. He is the longest-tenured analyst in the YES Network's rotating cast of former players that includes David Cone, John Flaherty, Al Leiter and Paul O'Neill. Singleton also is a regular fill-in for Michael Kay on play-by-play duties.
A native of Mount Vernon, N.Y., just outside the Bronx, Singleton was the Mets' No. 3 overall pick in the 1967 January Draft and went on to play 15 seasons in the Majors, 10 of those seasons with the Orioles.