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BREAKING: John Kruk to join TV broadcast team

Jim Salisbury reports that John Kruk will join the Phillies television broadcast team on CSNPhilly in 2017.

Kruk is replacing Matt Stairs, who will be the Phils’ new hitting coach.

Kruk – a lifetime .300 hitter – spent six years with the Phillies, hitting .309 with a .400 on-base percentage. He was an integral part of the 1993 pennant-winning club. He had spend the last 12 years at ESPN as a baseball analyst and left the network in the fall.

No word yet on terms of the deal, but Kruk will join a booth that includes Tom McCarthy, Ben Davis and Mike Schmidt (on the weekends).

Tim Malcolm

Tim first found the Phillies as a little infant at Veteran’s Stadium, cheering on a Juan Samuel game-winning home run in his very first game. With the pinstripes in his blood, he witnessed Terry Mulholland’s 1990 no-hitter, “Steve Carlton Night” at the Vet, game three of the 1993 World Series, countless games during the charmed 2008 championship season and various road excursions. Since November 2007 Tim’s been writing about them daily at Phillies Nation, becoming one of the world’s most popular Phillies scribes. You can catch him on Twitter and Facebook, as well. When he’s not talking about the Phils he’s relaxing with a St. Bernardus ABT 12 or one of his many favored brews.