For the sixth straight season, “Sunday Night Baseball” will have a new look in the booth.
ESPN “Sunday Night Baseball” analyst Orel Hershiser is leaving the network to join the new SportsNet LA regional sports network, The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. The news was originally reported by The Big Lead.
Hershiser joined ESPN in 2006 and had been part of the Sunday night broadcast team since 2010. SportsNet LA has now poached two ESPN MLB analysts, having reportedly hired Nomar Garciaparra last week.
ESPN has named Curt Schilling as Hershiser’s replacement in the “Sunday Night Baseball” booth, joining Dan Shulman and John Kruk. The Shulman-Kruk-Schilling booth will be the sixth different “SNB” broadcast team in as many years.
Since 2008, the last year Jon Miller and Joe Morgan worked together in a two-man booth, Sunday Night Baseball has added and dropped Steve Phillips (2009), added Hershiser to replace Phillips (2010), dumped Miller and Morgan in favor of Shulman and Bobby Valentine (2011), replaced Valentine with Terry Francona (2012), replaced Francona with Kruk (2013), and now replaced Hershiser with Schilling (2014).
(News from The Los Angeles Times, ESPN Media Zone)
