Orioles announce 2021 broadcast team, making reported shakeup official

Photo by Mark Goldman/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesThe Orioles announced their 2021 TV and radio broadcast team on Monday afternoon, confirming the substance of the weekend’s reporting from Brittany Ghiroli at The Athletic about a number of longtime Orioles broadcasters who aren’t being brought back for the 2021 season.

The announcement from the team focused only on the pared down group retained for 2021. In alphabetical order by last name: Geoff Arnold, Kevin Brown, Scott Garceau, Brett Hollander, Rob Long, Ben McDonald, Melanie Newman, and Jim Palmer.

This is a significantly smaller group than the one that was optimistically announced in the middle of February last year, before anyone…