R.I.P.: Yankees Radio Producer Carlos Silva

Carlos Silva

Carlos Silva, a longtime producer and engineer for Yankees games on WCBS 880, died Sunday morning after fighting esophageal and stomach cancer, his daughter said.

According to newyork.cbslocal.com, Silva was 50-years-old and worked in the game-day radio booth behind Yankees announcers John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman since 2006.

He had been battling cancer since the end of the 2012 baseball season but was able to work in the booth all of last year. His cancer returned this fall, and he was undergoing treatment while preparing to work with the broadcast team this spring.

“I started feeling sick after the All-Star Game,” the native of Caracas, Venezuela, told the New York Daily News in a December 2012 article. “When I got back from the break, I had trouble swallowing food and even liquid. I figured it was an allergy or something, so I didn’t pay much attention to it. It got worse during the next three months until the end of the season.”

Silva died in a hospital in Tampa, Fla., near his offseason home in Lutz, Fla. His condition had taken a turn for the worse over the past two weeks. He had spent the past few days surrounded by his family and friends.

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