A veteran of seven postseasons and 109 playoff innings pitched, Adam Wainwright has seen almost every angle of October, from the first pitch of a game to delivering the one that ends a championship series to even the dugout as teammates won, and on Tuesday he got a new view.
He swapped his jersey for a necktie and watched from the broadcast booth.
“I never thought I’d be a rookie again,” Wainwright said as he was introduced during the FS1 pregame show. “I feel like it today.”
A favorite go-to, in-game interview for national broadcasters throughout his career, Wainwright had a microphone in his grip not a curveball Tuesday as he made his debut as a network analyst.