TV Analyst Mark Grant Gets Multiyear Contract With Padres

[Steve Drumwright]

The San Diego Padres will be stuck in the Mud for a few more years.

In this case, that's actually a good thing.

Television analyst Don "Mudcat" Grant has agreed to a multi-year extension with the Friars, keeping one of MLB's top announcing teams together. The move was reported Thursday by Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Don Orsillo, the team's play-by-play announcer for TV games, signed a multi-year extension last spring.

Grant is a former right-hander pitcher who spent parts of four (1987-90) of his eight MLB seasons in a Padres uniform. He has been an analyst for Friars television since 1996, following his last in 1993. The Union-Tribune said Grant had been operating on a series of one-year deals. Orsillo has been calling Friars games since 2016.

Together, they form not only an informative tandem, but a hilarious one as well. Grant is either providing most of the humor or the subject of it.

They are scheduled to call their first game of the spring tonight at 6:10 p.m. on Friars.tv as the Padres play the Chicago White Sox.

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