After 21 years in the booth together, Hall of Famers Jon Miller and Joe Morgan will no longer be ESPN's television voices of Sunday Night Baseball.
Miller was asked if he'd like to stay on as the radio voice for the Sunday night games, while the network simply declined to renew Morgan's contract.
"We've decided to make a change and introduce new voices and new perspective," Norby Williamson, an executive vice president of ESPN, told The New York Times. "21 years is an eternity in this business. And today is about acknowledging the contributions they made to the franchise."
Morgan, who had a brilliant playing career highlighted by eight years with the Cincinnati Reds from 1972 to 1979, joined the Reds' front office as a "special advisor to baseball operations." He began his broadcast career in 1985 as a color analyst for the Reds, and later worked for ABC Sports and NBC Sports before joining ESPN in 1990.
Miller, who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010 by winning the Ford C. Frick Award in recognition of his broadcast excellence, has been a play-by-play voice for the recently-crowned World Series champion San Francisco Giants since 1997. In addition to his TV broadcasts for ESPN since 1990, Miller has also called postseason baseball games on the radio.
