Dodgers: Matt Vasgersian was the first choice to replace Vin Scully

Matt Vasgersian (Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images)

When the Los Angeles Dodgers took on the impossible task to find a replacement for Vin Scully, they first tried to hire Matt Vasgersian.

Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Joe Davis revealed on his podcast that ESPN and MLB Network commentator Matt Vasgersian was the Dodgers’ first choice to replace Vin Scully in the booth when the legendary play-by-play man called it quits after 67 seasons.

Davis gave a detailed account of the process by which he was recruited by the Dodgers to became the local television voice of the team. Over a lengthy period of recruitment and negotiation, he finally accepted the job after Vasgersian, and up…