An MLB announcer’s salary isn’t even a rounding shortcut in the payroll of an MLB team. There’s got to be more to this story.
Interesting thing about sports teams, is that for all the millions that the performers are paid, the ancillary personnel are usually treated like s-—t and not paid squat. It sounds bizarre to you & me that with payroll in the 10’s of millions annually, that owners will dump someone they pay 80k a year to in order to bring in someone they can pay 60k. I have not heard exceptions to this particular element of professional sports business.