Chipper Jones Joins ESPN Baseball Broadcast Booth As Analyst

New York Mets fans know him by his given name of Larry. ESPN viewers will soon know him as an analyst.

Larry “Chipper” Jones, a baseball Hall of Famer, will serve as an analyst on 20 games of ESPN’s Wednesday Night Baseball broadcasts, according to an Atlanta Journal Constitution report on Saturday.

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Jones will replace David Ross, who left the booth to become the manager of the Chicago Cubs.

“A lot of people don’t know this, but if I hadn’t played baseball, if I had gone to college, I would have majored in communications,” Jones told the AJC website. “I wanted to be a broadcaster. I really have fun talking the game. I feel like I have something to impart upon the people tuning…