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The Philadelphia Phillies have officially signed a multiyear agreement with former shortstop Kevin Stocker to serve as the club’s radio color analyst for road games and select home games not called by Larry Andersen.

Andersen, the club’s longtime color analyst, will continue to call most home games for the 2023 season, which will air on SportsRadio 94 WIP.

In addition, the Phillies made official what was reported last week: new multiyear contract agreements with Tom McCarthy and Scott Franzke, the voices of the team’s television and radio broadcasts, respectively.

Kevin Stocker

The Philadelphia Business Journal last week confirmed a report in The Athletic that Stocker had emerged as a favorite to join Franzke in the booth this year and that Anderson plans to increase his workload from 40 games to about 50 or so. Anderson had been working only weekend home games but has agreed to handle a few more series during weekdays. Now Stocker has signed on the dotted line.

Stocker, 52, was a second-round pick of the Phillies in 1991 from the University of Washington. He was called up from the minor leagues to fill a gaping hole at shortstop in the middle of the 1993 season and wound up hitting .324 in 70 games as the team won the National League pennant before losing to the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series. He was traded to the Tampa Bay Rays in 1997 for Bobby Abreu and retired in 2000. Stocker has worked as a broadcaster for much of the past two decades with the Pac-12 Network and CBS Sports Network. He worked part-time for the Phillies radio broadcast crew in 2018 before the team hired Kevin Frandsen and again last year after Frandsen left for a job with the rival Washington Nationals right before the start of the 2022 season.

Last year, Stocker and three other former Phillies — Michael Bourn, Chad Durbin and Erik Kratz — split the games that Anderson did not broadcast. Now Stocker will call over 100 games with Franzke.

“I’m very grateful to the Philadelphia Phillies for my expanded role in the broadcast booth and the opportunity to work alongside a group of broadcasters who are the best in the business,” Stocker said in a statement.

McCarthy, 54, was the Phillies radio play-by-play announcer from 2001 to 2005 before leaving for a similar role with the New York Mets from 2006 and 2007. He returned to the Phillies as a play-by-play voice in 2008, taking over the main duties upon the death of Harry Kalas in April 2009. He also calls NFL football and college basketball games for national television and radio networks.

Last year, McCarthy worked with former Phillies first baseman John Kruk during home games and the duo of Ruben Amaro Jr. and Ben Davis for road games. Baseball Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt joined the broadcast team for Sunday home games.

Phillies Executive Vice President David Buck said the entire television group will return. McCarthy is an employee of the Phillies while the others work directly for NBC Sports Philadelphia, which airs the games.