MLR Episode 20 – Batting Order Blues

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Jay Burnham - Director of Broadcasting, Richmond Flying Squirrels - 2011 Minor League Broadcaster of the Year Jay Burnham is in his first season with the Flying Squirrels calling all home games and select road contests. The Shelburne Falls, Mass. native previously broadcast games for the Trenton Thunder, Asheville Tourists, Hagerstown Suns and Pensacola Pelicans before arriving in Richmond in 2013. Burnham, a graduate of Elon University, has called play-by-play for over 800 professional baseball games in over 30 different stadiums throughout his career. [Read More]

Mike Passanisi - Director of Communications, Altoona Curve - Mike Passanisi enters his third season with the Curve in 2012 and his second as the Director of Communications. Panini for short, Mike has been in his current role since taking over the broadcast duties just before the end of the 2010 season. [Read More]

Eric Little - Director of Media Relations/Broadcasting, Augusta GreenJackets - Eric is entering his fourth season with the GreenJackets and fifth year as a baseball broadcaster. Previously, he worked as the #2 Broadcaster for the Asheville Tourists, partnering with current Trenton Thunder voice and TMLR co-host Jay Burnham. During his time in baseball, Eric has had the thrill of calling postseason baseball in two of his four prior seasons. In 2009, he and Jay were on the call for Bruce Billings’ no-hitter while both were broadcasting for the Tourists...[Read More]

Sam Sigal - Media Relations Assistant, Hickory Crawdads - A Princeton, NJ native but San Francisco born, Sam is in his first year in Hickory and second in Minor League Baseball. Sam spent the summer of 2012 as an intern with the Trenton Thunder under MLR co-host Jay Burnham. Sam graduated from Rider University with a degree in communications while serving as head student manager for the men’s basketball team. He is the self proclaimed guru of all things Rule 5 Draft and other arguably irrelevant minor league baseball information.