{"id":634449,"date":"2026-03-21T00:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/634449\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T00:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:08:25","slug":"jameis-winston-will-appear-on-netflixs-opening-night-mlb-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/634449\/","title":{"rendered":"Jameis Winston will appear on Netflix’s opening night MLB coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you thought it was odd to see a WWE wrestler on the coverage of Netflix’s NFL games on Christmas, that was just the appetizer.<\/p>\n

Netflix will televise on March 25 its first-ever MLB game, the opening-night game between the New York Yankees and the San Francisco Giants. On Friday, Netflix announced that New York Giants quarterback Jameis Winston will be a \u201cspecial guest\u201d for the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Yes, Winston played baseball at Florida State. His initial NFL contract with the Buccaneers prevented him from playing baseball<\/a>. And he’s a compelling TV presence \u2014 funny, entertaining, charismatic.<\/p>\n

Still, he doesn’t come from the MLB ecosystem. Baseball aficionados will regard it as unusual to see him on the broadcast.<\/p>\n

Netflix doesn’t seem to have an issue with unusual. This year’s Christmas games included clunky in-game interviews with former NFL players. It distracted from the action, and it made the presentation of the game seem amateurish.<\/p>\n

There could nevertheless be a strategic benefit to Winston’s presence. “Eating a W<\/a>” becomes an easy way to add a little something to the ball before a pitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you thought it was odd to see a WWE wrestler on the coverage of Netflix’s NFL games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,81319,78647,4,40646,1352,62,1082,66,81320],"class_list":["post-634449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-christmas-games","tag-jameis-winston","tag-mlb","tag-netflix","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-wwe-wrestler"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116264259278901476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634449","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=634449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}