{"id":137210,"date":"2018-01-24T10:09:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=137210"},"modified":"2018-01-24T10:09:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T16:09:10","slug":"alex-rodriguez-espn-snb-booth-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=137210","title":{"rendered":"Alex Rodriguez ESPN SNB booth this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"entryContent\" class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27797\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/espn.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"30\" \/>BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) &#8212; Alex Rodriguez is taking over for Aaron Boone again, this time moving into the ESPN booth for Sunday Night Baseball.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN announced Tuesday that A-Rod was joining its crew as an analyst. The former star slugger will become a rare, two-network announcer &#8212; he will continue as a studio analyst for Fox Sports in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez fills the ESPN spot held last season by Boone, hired last month to manage the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Boone hit a walk-off home run in the 11th inning of Game 7 in the 2003 AL Championship Series against Boston, but the third baseman tore up his knee in the offseason and missed a year.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez became his replacement with the Yankees, acquired from Texas in a trade before the 2004 season. Rodriguez stayed with the team through 2016, hit 696 career home runs and now works for the club as an adviser.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez will join Matt Vasgersian, a former voice of the Syracuse Chiefs, and Jessica Mendoza in the ESPN &#8216;Sunday Night Baseball&#8217; booth.<\/p>\n<p>A-Rod will continue to exclusively serve as a studio analyst for Fox Sports during the MLB Postseason, while Vasgersian\u00a0will continue his role as a studio host and announcer for MLB Network.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) &#8212; Alex Rodriguez is taking over for Aaron Boone again, this time moving into the ESPN booth for Sunday Night Baseball. ESPN announced Tuesday that A-Rod was joining its crew as an analyst. The former star slugger will become a rare, two-network announcer &#8212; he will continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137212,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137210\/revisions\/137212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}