Alex Faust to replace Bob Costas on TNTs MLB

The successor to Bob Costas as play-by-play voice on TNT’s Major League Baseball postseason video games would be the same broadcaster who changed the legendary Bob Miller in 2017 after Miller retired following a 44-year Hall of Fame profession with the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL.

Yes, Alex Faust has expertise changing a titan of the airwaves.

Costas, of course, is another Hall of Famer, and he also retired after 44 years. His ultimate MLB call was the 2024 American League Division Series in which the New York Yankees defeated the Kansas City Royals in 4 video games.

Faust, 36, presently calls Friday Night MLB video games streamed on Apple TV+. He also is the radio voice of the New York Rangers and has been half of hockey and tennis coverage at TNT Sports. Faust left the Kings in 2023 when their tv deal with Bally Sports expired.

Costas will continue to seem on MLB Network but received’t do play-by-play. His most latest look on the airwaves was as a visitor on the NPR news quiz “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” on Sept. 13.

After telling tales about not making his high college baseball workforce and recounting an embarrassing, mildly profane gaffe he made on air early in his profession, Costas answered all three sport show questions about the Emmy Awards appropriately.

Costas joked that he had completed “the trifecta, the hat trick, the triple crown.” Host Peter Segal requested what the show ought to call it when somebody goes 3 for 3. Costas laughed and replied, “The Costi.”

He most likely ought to have an award named after him. Costas, 73, has acquired 29 Emmys and was the prime-time host of 12 Olympic Games from 1988 through 2016. He called three World Series and 10 MLB league championships.

Costas stepped down from MLB play-by-play in November, telling Tom Verducci of MLB Network that he had deliberate to retire for more than a yr, saying, “I couldn’t consistently reach my past standard.”