Going with the assumption that 85-year-old John Sterling is going to stay retired, Audacy, the broadcasting rightsholder of Yankees games, hired veteran broadcaster Dave Sims to be the team’s play-by- ...

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Sims, 71, has spent the last 20 years calling Seattle Mariners games. He is a former reporter for the New York Daily News.