Yankees rightfielder Carlos Beltran comes out from the dugout for batting practice at Yankee Stadium during the American League Wild Card Game on Oct. 6, 2015. Credit: Jim McIsaac Show After two years out of the game, is 2022 going to be a busy year for Carlos Beltran? YES. After two years out of the game, is 2022 going to be a busy year for Carlos Beltran? YES. Beltran, the top new candidate on this year’s Hall of Fame ballot, has been added to the YES stable of Yankees game announcers. YES announcer Jack Curry broke the news on Friday on Twitter. Beltran, the former Mets and Yankees star and would-have-been Mets manager, will work 36 Yankees games in the booth this season. Beltran will pick up some of the slack left by David Cone’s reduced schedule because of his new gig with ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball and the retirement of Ken Singleton. Beltran, 44, was hired as Mets manager in the 2019 offseason. But he was let go soon after news of his involvement as a player in the 2017 Astros’ sign-stealing scandal became public. Before that, Beltran was a special adviser to Yankees general manager Brian Cashman after retiring following the Astros' 2017 World Series-winning season, which some consider tainted. Beltran will be on the baseball Hall of Fame ballot for the first time this year. It will be interesting to see if the voters hold his involvement in the Astros scandal against him. Beltran was a nine-time All-Star, a Rooke of the Year, and won three Gold Gloves in centerfield. Beltran hit .279 with 435 home runs and 312 stolen bases in a 20-year career. He added 16 postseason home runs, including eight in a playoff performance for the ages for the Astros in 2004.
As one of the most successful clubs in Major League Baseball, the New York Yankees are also one of its oldest teams. Part of that success derives to its radio and television broadcasts that have been running beginning in 1939 when the first radio transmissions were broadcast from the old stadium, and from 1947 when television broadcasts began. They have been one of the pioneer superstation broadcasts when WPIX became a national superstation in 1978 and were the first American League team to broadcast their games on cable, both first in 1978 and later on in 1979, when Sportschannel NY (now MSG Plus) began broadcasting Yankees games to cable subscribers. Today, the team can be heard and/or seen in its gameday broadcasts during the baseball season on:
Longest serving Yankee broadcasters (all-time with 10+ years)
Phil Rizzuto (40 yrs), John Sterling (34 yrs), Mel Allen (30 yrs), Michael Kay (31 yrs), Ken Singleton (25 yrs), Bobby Murcer (22 yrs), Paul O'Neill (21 yrs), Frank Messer (18 yrs), Bill White (18 yrs), Suzyn Waldman (18 yrs), John Flaherty (17 yrs), David Cone (16 yrs), Red Barber (13 yrs), Jim Kaat (13 yrs), Al Trautwig (12 yrs)
Broadcasters assigned from the Yankees to cover World Series appearances nationally (1947-1978)
Television Broadcasters by Year
Television Play-by-Play
Television analyst
β - indicates Ford C. Frick Award winner RadioLongest serving Yankee radio broadcasters (all-time with 10+ years) John Sterling (33 yrs), Phil Rizzuto (30 yrs), Mel Allen (22 yrs), Frank Messer (18 yrs), Suzyn Waldman (17 yrs), Beto Villa (16 yrs), Bill White (16 yrs), Red Barber (13 yrs), Michael Kay (10 yrs) Radio Announcers by Year
Radio play-by-play and color commentators
β - indicates Ford C. Frick Award winner
The Yankees' New York City flagship station has been:
Outside of New York City, over-the-air television broadcasts can often be seen on:
Cable television
Streaming television
Radio NetworkThe typical lineup of radio stations included in the Yankees’ radio network through 1989.
Halberstam, David "Sports on NY Radio", 1999. ISBN 1-57028-197-1
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