Rich Hill, the oldest pitcher in Major League Baseball just last season, is taking his legendary longevity straight to the analyst’s chair for MLB Network’s 2026 World Series coverage this week. The dude made two appearances for the Kansas City Royals at 45 years old in 2025, and now he is slated to contribute to shows like Intentional Talk, MLB Tonight’s National Pregame Show, MLB Central, and MLB Now on October 20 and 21.
This Guy’s Career Is A Legend
You talk about a career, man. If MLB Network wanted someone who knows about sticking around, they found him. Hill pitched for an MLB record-tying 14 teams in a career that kicked off all the way back in 2005 with the Chicago Cubs, where he was even teammates with Hall of Famer Greg Maddux. Think about that for a second. He even signed free agent contracts with the Boston Red Sox six different times. We all remember him throwing 19 games for the American League champion Tampa Bay Rays in 2021. When he signed a minor league deal with the Royals a year ago, Hill was literally more than twice the age of his Triple-A catcher, Carter Jensen. That’s just wild.
Hill’s World Series History and This Year’s Fall Classic
Hill’s only personal taste of the World Series mound came with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2017 and 2018. Now, he’s bringing that experience to the broadcast booth for a Fall Classic that is shaping up to be a pretty intense one. The World Series kicks off Friday in Milwaukee. Get this: neither the Rays nor the Brewers have ever snagged a championship before. Every game in this best-of-seven series starts at 8 p.m. ET. The Milwaukee Brewers are hosting Games 1 and 2 after they took down the Dodgers to get here. Meanwhile, the Rays, who are set to host Game 3 on Monday, earned their spot by eliminating the Cleveland Guardians, another one of Hill’s former teams, in Game 6 of the AL Championship Series.
So, while Hill is dropping some serious baseball wisdom for the next couple of days, don’t forget the kicker here: he recently revealed he hasn’t ruled out pitching next season at a mind-blowing age 47! Whether he’s on the mound or in the booth, Rich Hill is a straight-up baseball lifer, and you know he’s gonna bring that fire to the World Series. Get ready for some epic baseball, this Fall Classic is gonna be a battle.
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Originally reported by Yahoo Sports.
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