The Yankees\u2019 regional sports network, YES, will have two play-by-play announcers, three rotating analysts, and one field reporter in 2026.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a sizable reduction from last year, and it will cost two former players their jobs as rotating analysts.<\/p>\n
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MORE: Olympics reporter apologizes for drinking, slurring words during live segment<\/a><\/p>\n John Flaherty announced last November<\/a> that his contract was not renewed by YES for 2026. News of Jeff Nelson and Dave Valle\u2019s departure, first reported<\/a> at the end of last season by Andrew Marchand of The Athletic, was confirmed this week by Jared Boshnack, YES\u2019 executive producer and vice president of production.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s going to really be beneficial for the audience to know every single game, \u2018Hey, this is who\u2019s going to be covering it,\u2019 \u201d Boshnack told Newsday\u2018s Anthony Rieber.<\/a><\/p>\n Michael Kay will handle the Yankees play-by-play duties for YES, along with backup Ryan Ruocco. David Cone, Paul O\u2019Neill and Joe Girardi are the analysts. Meredith Marakovits will continue in her reporter role.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Former Yankees infielder Todd Frazier, among the rotating analysts last year, will join YES\u2019 roster of pre- and post-game hosts. So will Justin Shackil, who did play-by-play at times in 2025.<\/p>\n The downsizing at YES comes after Cone was given Sunday nights off<\/a> by ESPN, his former employer, which lost the rights<\/a> to its Sunday night package of primetime MLB games after the 2025 season.<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0Enjoy free coverage of the top news & trending stories on The Big Lead\u00a0<\/a>\u2014<\/p>\n NFL:\u00a0Former 49ers wide receiver announces immediate retirement from football<\/a><\/p>\n OLYMPICS:\u00a0Mikaela Shiffrin sends 2-word message after winning Olympic gold medal<\/a><\/p>\n MLB:\u00a0MLBPA chooses Tony Clark\u2019s replacement one day after abrupt resignation<\/a><\/p>\n NFL:\u00a0College quarterback who won 7 Super Bowl rings as NFL executive dies<\/a><\/p>\n SPORTS MEDIA:\u00a0College Hall of Famer, father of Chicago Bulls coach, dies<\/a><\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n VIRAL:\u00a0Red Sox issue, retract, reissue statement about Fanatics uniform snafu<\/a><\/p>\n The post Three former Yankees players axed from YES broadcasts in 2026, network confirms<\/a> appeared first on The Big Lead<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees\u2019 regional sports network, YES, will have two play-by-play announcers, three rotating analysts, and one field reporter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13309,5,5809,12847,76116,76114,28219,19430,37665,4,24558,76115,14192,142],"class_list":["post-581981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-andrew-marchand","tag-baseball","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-david-cone","tag-executive-producer","tag-jared-boshnack","tag-jeff-nelson","tag-john-flaherty","tag-meredith-marakovits","tag-mlb","tag-paul-oneill","tag-play-by-play-announcers","tag-regional-sports-network","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116100225233813608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}