Chavez could become part of A’s broadcast team

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The A’s are in discussions to bring former third baseman Eric Chavez back — in the broadcast booth.

The six-time Gold Glove winner, who retired last season and now is working as a special assistant in the Yankees front office, is being considered as the fill in for Ray Fosse for 20 games on A’s telecasts this season. The deal has not been announced but is close to being finalized.

“I didn’t know how the Yankees would react, but they were great about it,” Chavez said. “I’m really looking forward to it. It’s different, we’ll see, but (CSN California) said they just want me to say what I’m really thinking. I told them, 'I’ve never had a problem doing that.’”

One of Chavez’s former teammates, Scott Hatteberg, did 20 games filling in for Fosse in 2012 and 2013, and onetime A’s second baseman Shooty Babitt, now a scout with the Mets, worked 20 games as an analyst on the CSN California broadcasts last season.

Chavez, 37, does have some experience doing TV; he worked a full day bouncing between every show at the MLB Network during the 2010 postseason.

Susan Slusser