John Sterling called his final New York Yankees baseball game with the close of the 2024 World Series, which was won by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Sterling came back to the team to call its post-season games for the Yankees’ radio network, after suddenly exiting due to health reasons early in the season.
Now, the Major League Baseball club has revealed who will take Sterling’s mic alongside Suzyn Waldman when the 2025 season starts. And, it is an individual who has spent the last 18 seasons as the lead TV play-by-play voice of the Seattle Mariners baseball club: Dave Sims.
That’s not to say Sims is a Pacific Northwest native wholly unfamiliar with the environs surrounding 161st Street in The Bronx or the rest of the Five Boroughs. Before heading west, Sims hosted talk programs at WFAN-AM, the former “66 WNBC” in the 1980s, and for the MSG cable TV regional sports network. He’s also covered the National Football League for Westwood One, college basketball for ESPN, and spent time at WCBS-2 in New York.
Thus, Sims is making a return of sorts to WFAN, which has been the Yankees’ flagship radio station since the 2014 season. “It’s great to be home,” Sims said. “What an honor to be part of the iconic Yankees franchise. New York is where it all started for me, and I can’t wait for Opening Day and to work with my good friend Suzyn.”
Chris Oliviero, New York Market President for WFAN parent Audacy Inc., commented, “From Allen and Barber to Rizzuto to Sterling, the names are synonymous with the pinstripes. Dave Sims is a worthy successor to that lineage. We are honored to have Dave join the incomparable Suzyn Waldman in the booth in the Bronx.”
