After 22 seasons calling Minnesota Twins games, the former shortstop and more recent TV analyst announced his retirement from broadcasting on Wednesday. In 2025, Major League Baseball will be taking over Twins broadcasts for both television and streaming, and Smalley cited the changing direction as part of the season it was time to retire.

After 22 years with the Twins broadcast team, former player Roy Smalley has announced his retirement from broadcasting.

For more than three decades, Roy Smalley has been on televisions throughout the Twin Cities — first as a player, one who played for 10 seasons with Twins, and then as a broadcaster and analyst.

All good things must come to an end, and sometimes that means retiring even after you have already retired. The Minnesota Twins have gone through considerable change when it comes to distribution models over the past year.

Just a year after losing longtime play-by-play voice Dick Bremer to 'retirement,' one of the team's television analysts has announced that he is stepping down from his role.