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The New York Yankees are a baseball team based in the Bronx, New York City. They are members of the American League East Division in Major League Baseball. The Yankees are one of the most successful baseball teams of all time, having won 27 World Series championships, 40 American League pennants, and 19 East Division titles. Today, they are commentary by Michael Kay and David Cone.
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Yankees Announcers
Michael Kay is the primary play-by-play announcer for the Yankees. He is joined by Paul O’Neill, Ryan Ruocco, and Ken Singleton. Today’s game is being commentated by Michael Kay, Paul O’Neill, and Ryan Ruocco.
Michael Kay
Michael Kay is an American sports broadcaster. Kay is the television play-by-play voice of the New York Yankees, currently seen on the YES Network. He also hosts CenterStage on YES. He has been with the network since its founding in 2002. Prior to joining YES, Kay spent 20 years with WABC radio in New York City, most recently as the station’s afternoon drive host.
John Sterling
John Sterling is an American sportscaster. He is best known as the radio play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees, a position he has held since 1989.
Suzyn Waldman
Suzyn Waldman is a sportscaster and former Yankee radio personality. Waldman has been the radio color commentator for the New York Yankees since 2005.
Waldman began her broadcasting career in 1972 as a weekend sports reporter for WBZ-FM in Boston. In 1976, she became the first woman to work as a play-by-play announcer for a Major League Baseball game when she called several innings of a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers on WTTG-FM in Washington, D.C.. In 1978, Waldman became thefirst woman to work full-time as an MLB game commentator when she was hired by the New York Yankees to work as their public relations director.
In 1999, Waldman was inducted into the Broadcasters’ Wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Other Announcers
The Yankees game today is being commentated by some other announcers. This is a list of some of the other announcers that might be calling the game today.
Ken Singleton
Ken Singleton is a former Major League Baseball player and current television broadcaster. He played as an outfielder and designated hitter from 1970 to 1984, most notably for the Montreal Expos and New York Yankees. Singleton was a three-time MLB All-Star and won the American League batting title in 1982. He currently serves as a color commentator for YES Network’s broadcast of New York Yankees games.
Paul O’Neill
Paul O’Neill is a former professional baseball player who currently serves as a color commentator and studio analyst for the YES Network. He played right field for the Cincinnati Reds from 1985 to 1992 and for the New York Yankees from 1993 to 2001. A five-time World Series champion, he wasnamed the American League Championship Series Most Valuable Player in 1999 and won four Silver Slugger Awards.
Bobby Murcer
Bobby Murcer (born May 20, 1946) is an American former professional baseball outfielder and right-handed broadcaster. He played almost his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the New York Yankees from 1964 to 1983, spending his final season with the Chicago Cubs before retiring as a player in 1983.
Murcer returned to the Yankees as a broadcaster from 1988 until his death in 2008. He was also a baseball commentator for CBS Radio from 2004 until his death. He died of brain cancer on July 12, 2008, at the age of 62.
