Fox Sports analyst C.J. Nitkowski has called enough Major League baseball games in his broadcasting career to understand what his television audience is looking for.
While part of Nitkowski’s job is to inform viewers of what is happening, he prefers to delve deeper into why something is happening. At times, the answer can seem basic. But in other instances, Nitkowski seasons his color commentary with what he calls “nerd food”. Among those nuggets of the game’s deeper-level statistics Nitkowski—a former big-league pitcher who now calls 100 Texas Rangers games per year and another 10 national games for Fox Sports—discovers a unique way of telling stories and taking viewers into a side of the game they perhaps weren’t expecting.