TNT Sports has agreed to a multiyear contract renewal with longtime MLB color analyst Ron Darling. Darling is repped by Steve Rosner at 16W Marketing. MLB’s national deal with Turner runs through the 2028 season. All of MLB’s national rights are up in three years. Darling, 65, has been the MLB on TBS lead game analyst for both regular and postseason games since 2008. He joined TBS in 2007 as a guest studio analyst during the playoffs. Darling remembers sitting in a Manhattan restaurant when he signed his initial deal.
“I was just like I can’t believe it. I’m going to do national games,” Darling told SBJ. “I was so excited and wonderfully naïve about having a chance to be a national broadcaster. I feel like I’m a caretaker for these amazing athletes to chronicle what they do in October, and it’s a blessing for sure.”
Darling says the TNT Sports broadcast, production and behind-the-scenes crews all feel like family. His favorite moment on the field was Dodgers 3B Justin Turner’s walk-off homer in Game 2 of the 2017 NLCS, which came on the 29th anniversary of Kirk Gibson’s legendary walk-off homer in the 1988 World Series.
TBS had 24 Tuesday night games during the 2025 regular season, and will have exclusive coverage of the 2025 NLDS and ALCS in October. Darling also celebrated 20 years at SNY alongside beloved Mets broadcast partners Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez. Darling said that while regular season games can be more of a fun shtick for the broadcast crew, there is a “responsibility for the postseason to make sure that you not only get it right. Because you want to make sure at the end of the day when someone throws a shutout or gets a big out or like Turner hits a home run, that we capture it in such a way that their family, when the player is older and their grandkids are sitting on their lap and asking ‘Grandpa, how good were you as a player? Well, this is what happened.’ And they’re able to play that back and we got it right. That’s a responsibility that I don’t take lightly, but I enjoy having the chance to do.”
