Francoeur lands another broadcasting role: NLCS on TBS
The Braves didn’t advance in the playoffs, but one of their broadcasters, Jeff Francoeur, did.
He’ll be on the TBS broadcast team for the National League Championship Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Washington Nationals. The series opens Friday night in St. Louis.
Francoeur will join Ron Darling as analysts on the telecasts, along with play-by-play announcer Brian Anderson and reporter Lauren Shehadi.
Francoeur, who became lead analyst on the Fox Sports South/Southeast telecasts of Braves games this season, worked as an analyst on the TBS coverage of the NL wild-card game and the Dodgers-Nationals division series. TBS, which is exclusively televising all NL playoff games this season, didn't announce Francoeur's NLCS role until after the division series.
A former outfielder with the Braves and seven other teams, Francoeur completed a 12-year major-league playing career in 2016. He was an analyst on nine Braves telecasts in 2017 and 25 in 2018 before expanding his role to about 100 regular-season games this year.
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