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Eric Chavez starts TV career with A’s, with Yankees blessing

Eric Chavez began this week in Detroit, doing some analysis for the Yankees. He’ll end the week in Oakland, doing A’s television broadcasts.

It may sounds like he’s got a split personality thing going, but the situation is more nuanced than that. But then between his offense, his defense and his knowledge of the game, the longtime A’s third baseman was always nuanced.

“I’m really intrigued by the whole broadcast thing,’’ Chavez said this week from Motown, where the Yankees were taking on the Tigers. “I want to test the water with a number of things, then at the end of the year go back and reevaluate.