Since 2025,
Dave Sims (play-by-play) and
Suzyn Waldman (color commentary) have been the Yankees Radio Network broadcast team. Waldman is the first and one of the few women to hold a full-time position with a major league team, and had served as a Yankees beat reporter for the
YES Network before moving to the broadcast booth. Waldman was also one of the original personalities at
WFAN upon its 1987 launch, where she served as a studio host for various teams (including the
New York Knicks, for whom she hosted the pregame show) and also was the station's Yankees beat reporter. Sims joined the Yankees in 2025, following the retirement of longtime play-by-play broadcaster
John Sterling. The network uses the instrumental version of "
Here Come the Yankees" as its theme song, and highlights from past games are dubbed over it for game opens. Sterling joined the Yankees in 1989 (or more accurately
re-joined; he had done work for the Yankees in the 1970s) after calling games for
Turner Sports for the previous decade. Prior to the Yankee broadcasts moving from WABC to WCBS, Sterling worked with
Jay Johnstone,
Joe Angel, and
Michael Kay. He is widely known (and perhaps infamous) for his home run calls, which often involve one of his player nicknames or catchphrases and for saying "Ballgame over! Yankees win! Theeeeeee Yankees win!" after a Yankee victory. Sterling will often stretch out "the" for dramatic victories as well as say "Yankees win" in a more excited voice. (If the team loses, Sterling will end with a more subdued "Ballgame over, (opposing team) wins".) For the inaugural season of the Yankees Radio Network, the team continued the longstanding tradition carried on by WABC, WINS, and other Yankee flagship stations by having a two-man booth where both broadcasters would share play-by-play duties during the game. Because 2002 was also the first season of the
YES Network and Michael Kay was called upon to be the team's new lead television voice, the Yankees decided to replace him with longtime
ESPN SportsCenter anchor
Charley Steiner, who was no stranger to calling baseball on the radio (having been
ESPN Radio's lead baseball voice for the previous four seasons) nor to New York sports (having covered New York sports on radio for almost a decade and serving as the voice of both the
New Jersey Generals and the
New York Jets football teams). The duo worked together for three seasons, with perhaps their most notable call being Steiner's call of
Aaron Boone's 2003
American League Championship Series-winning home run. The Sterling-Steiner partnership lasted until the end of the 2004 season, with their final game together being Game 7 of that year's American League Championship Series that the Yankees lost to become the first team in Major League Baseball history to lose a series they led 3-0. After that season, to make room for Suzyn Waldman's move to the broadcast booth, Steiner was to become the YES Network's studio host for Yankee games as well as for its coverage of the then-
New Jersey Nets, a spot that opened after
Fred Hickman left YES for
ESPN. This did not come to pass, however, as Steiner elected to go west and replace the fired
Ross Porter at the
Los Angeles Dodgers Radio Network. In April 2024, Sterling retired abruptly and was succeeded by a rotation of play-by-play announcers including
Emmanuel Berbari,
Justin Shackil and Spanish radio broadcaster Rickie Ricardo. He returned for the last few series of the season through the team's loss in the
2024 World Series before a final retirement. ==Format==