Jerry just said it – it's officiall! Joe Siddall is our new full-time analyst on #Bluejays radio broadcasts. Welcome aboard, @SiddallJoe ! — Mike Wilner (@Wilnerness590) March 1, 2014

Jerry Howarth broke the news during the pregame show on the Blue Jays radio network that the Blue Jays have found Jack Morris’ replacement in the radio booth.

Joe Siddall, a 46 year-old Windsor Ontario native is a former catcher who played in 73 big league games spanning parts of four seasons with Montreal, Florida and Detroit has been named the new analyst on Blue Jays radio broadcasts.

Sidall had worked with the Detroit Tigers the past several seasons handling pre-game catching duties.

Others that were considered for the job according to Toronto Sun Baseball columnist Bob Elliott were C.J Nitkowski and Jeff Nelson, both of whom were not interested once they were told it was a 162 game commitment.

Sidall, who has only done a few games as a fill in analyst worked his first game on Wednesday, but was finally officially announced Saturday.

Only listening to Sidall work Saturday’s game, he didn’t sound out of place, and sounds like he has the potential to become a really good analyst. He wasn’t afraid to say when a pitcher didn’t execute his pitch or admit when a player should have made a play instead of making an error.

Sidall lost his fourteen year old son to cancer just last month.

Photo Credit:(Nick Brancaccio/The Windsor Star)