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“The reason that [the Statcast broadcast] matters to me is players are using this information every day,” White Sox voice Jason Benetti said. “I say this to Stoney [Sox analyst Steve Stone] a lot: ‘If you were pitching in this era, you would absolutely use this, right?’ He’s like, ‘Oh, totally.’ ” Ron Vesely/Chicago White Sox When ESPN aired the National League wild-card game between the Cubs and Rockies in 2018, the network produced an alternate version of its regular game broadcast based on MLB’s Statcast tracking for the first time. White Sox announcer Jason Benetti han...

April 18, 2021 Cesar Valdez’s name has graced this column a handful of times over the past year, most recently a month ago when I asked him about his powerful paralyzing perfect pachydermous percussion pitch. (No, the Baltimore Orioles reliever doesn’t actually call it that, but given that Bugs Bunny changeups make up the lion’s share of his deliveries, he arguably should). Since the start of last season, Valdez has thrown the mesmerizing offering an eye-popping 83.1% of the time. The Red Sox have faced the 36-year-old slow-baller on three occasions so far in April, so I asked Boston hi...

Ron Vesely/Chicago White Sox Len Kasper might be the highest-profile person with a new job in the city, moving from the Cubs’ TV booth to the White Sox’ radio booth. So when we talked this week about how it’s going, the first question was obvious: How’s the commute? “I added 9 miles to my commute, but it’s all basically the Kennedy and the Ryan [expressways],” said Kasper, a Glencoe resident. “My trip to Wrigley was shorter, but once you get off on Irving Park or Addison, it can be tricky. So it’s been fine. I throw on an audio book or a podcast.”

Jason Benetti Discusses ESPN Debut As NBA Announcer, Working With Bill Walton, Thriving With Cerebral Palsy Share to Facebook Share to Linkedin Jason Benetti will make his ESPN NBA broadcasting debut Monday for the Golden State Warriors-Denver ... [+] Nuggets game. He discusses his broadcasting career, working with Bill Walton and how he's thrived while living with cerebral palsy. Photo courtesy of ESPN Jason Benetti After nearly calling his first NBA game for ESPN two years ago as a fill-in during a winter snowstorm in his native Chicago, broadcaster Jason Benetti will be the play-by-play an...

We've known for years that the 2021 Chicago Cubs season would mark some kind of ending.