{"id":488300,"date":"2026-02-18T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488300\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:04:09","slug":"yes-network-sets-tighter-yankees-broadcast-team-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488300\/","title":{"rendered":"YES Network sets tighter Yankees broadcast team for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">YES Network is tightening up its Yankees broadcast team in 2026, as the network will go with \u201ctwo play-by-play announcers\u201d &#8212; main voice Michael Kay and backup Ryan Ruocco &#8212; and three \u201crotating analysts\u201d in David Cone, Paul O\u2019Neill and Joe Girardi, according to Anthony Rieber of NEWSDAY. Meredith Marakovits will \u201ccontinue in her reporter role.\u201d YES used four different play-by-play announcers and six different analysts last year, so this year the network is \u201choping less is more.\u201d And more of Kay, Cone, Girardi and O\u2019Neill in either a two- or three-man configuration is \u201cbetter for viewers.\u201d Last year, John Flaherty, Todd Frazier and Jeff Nelson were used as game analysts. Flaherty also did play-by-play, as did Justin Shackil. Flaherty and Nelson will \u201cnot be back with YES this season,\u201d while Shackil and Frazier are \u201cpart of YES\u2019 roster of pre- and postgame hosts and analysts.\u201d YES Exec Producer &amp; VP\/Production Jared Boshnack said that Kay will be \u201cbehind the mic for \u201885-90%\u2019 of the regular-season YES games\u201d in his 25th year at the network (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/sports\/media\/yes-yankees-mo2fj3ky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/sports\/media\/yes-yankees-mo2fj3ky\">NEWSDAY, 2\/18<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YES Network is tightening up its Yankees broadcast team in 2026, as the network will go with \u201ctwo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,134,591,85],"class_list":["post-488300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-entertainment","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}