{"id":602781,"date":"2026-03-03T02:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/602781\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T02:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:31:51","slug":"jeff-passan-re-signs-with-espn-as-mlb-insiders-role-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/602781\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Passan re-signs with ESPN as MLB insider&#8217;s role grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior MLB insider Jeff Passan is getting his own baseball podcast as part of a new multi-year extension with ESPN, the Worldwide Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/espnpressroom.com\/us\/press-releases\/2026\/03\/espn-reaches-multi-year-contract-extension-with-senior-mlb-insider-jeff-passan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced <\/a>Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Passan will host his own podcast in conjunction with Omaha Productions, the media company founded by former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning and sports executive Jamie Horowitz.<\/p>\n<p>He will continue his role as one of ESPN\u2019s lead MLB voices, delivering breaking news and analysis across ESPN.com and several of the network\u2019s major television shows, including \u201cSportsCenter\u201d and \u201cThe Pat McAfee Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came to ESPN seven years ago hoping to spend the rest of my career telling stories to the biggest and most passionate audience in the sports world,\u201d Passan, 45, said in a ESPN release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m extraordinarily lucky to work with a team of great reporters, editors, producers, hosts and analysts. And I can\u2019t wait to deliver an entirely new kind of baseball show for those who love the best game in the world.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Passan reposted the news on X, including a GIF of a man pointing to himself and holding a Corona. <\/p>\n<p>ESPN announced his new deal ahead of the 2026 MLB regular season, beginning March 25. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38647852\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/jeff-passan-gives-report-first-119876327.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Passan gives a report during the first round of the 2025 MLB Draft at Coca-Cola Roxy on July 13, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia.  \" class=\"wp-image-38647852\"  \/>Jeff Passan gives a report during the first round of the 2025 MLB Draft at Coca-Cola Roxy on July 13, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia.   Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Passan, who is a New York Times bestselling author, joined ESPN in 2019 after spending 13 years at Yahoo Sports.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Passan is a graduate of Syracuse University. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior MLB insider Jeff Passan is getting his own baseball podcast as part of a new multi-year extension&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[5,649,2291,4,1586,185,4298,7486],"class_list":{"0":"post-602781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-draft","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-espn","10":"tag-major-league-baseball-draft","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-draft","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-entertainment","15":"tag-sports-media"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116162900897930897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602781","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=602781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}