ESPN Settles On Vasgersian, A-Rod For "Sunday Night Baseball" Booth

Vasgersian and Rodriguez are both in the final year of their contracts with ESPNESPN IMAGES

ESPN decided its new "Sunday Night Baseball" broadcast team "will be Matt Vasgersian and Alex Rodriguez, with Buster Olney returning as the dugout reporter," according to Andrew Marchand of the N.Y. POST. That means the "only change" to the show will be the removal of Jessica Mendoza from the booth. Mendoza earlier this month received a new contract extension at ESPN and "will call TV games as a lone analyst, as well as the World Series radio broadcast." ESPN also is "changing lead producers," as Jeff Dufine has replaced Andy Reichwald. In a two-person booth, Rodriguez "will have even more room to roam, go deeper and demonstrate that he can be as good on games as he has been in Fox's studio." Rodriguez and Vasgersian are in the "final year of their contracts." The net considered replacing Vasgersian with either Jon Sciambi or Karl Ravech, but they will remain "on weekday TV games" (N.Y. POST, 2/20).