ESPN’s new contract with Major League Baseball may cost them David Cone.

For the last three seasons, Cone, along with Eduardo Pérez and Karl Ravech, has been in the booth for the network’s “Sunday Night Baseball” broadcast. But ESPN’s new three-year, $550 million deal with MLB may conflict with Cone’s YES Network schedule.

According to Front Office Sports , from 2026-2028, ESPN’s schedule will shift from Sunday nights to a midweek slot. That would interfere with Cone’s YES Network gig, in which he calls Yankees games with Paul O’Neill.

Cone’s contract with ESPN is set to expire at the start of the 2026 season.

“ESPN loves Cone—and wants to keep him. But juggling the two network schedules is going to be difficult,” a source told FOS. “We’ll see how it works out.”

According to the F

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