Mychael Urban is the MLB Insider for Comcast Sports Network Bay Area. He has a vast resume of sports journalism highlights.

Urban spent a summer serving as the pitching coach for the Slovakian National Baseball Team

Slovakia national baseball team

The Slovak national baseball team is the national baseball team of Slovakia. The team competes in the biennial European Baseball Championship. The team is controlled by the Slovak Baseball Federation, which is represented in the Confederation of European Baseball.Current in IBAF World Rankings is...

. The team finished fifth at the 1998 European Championships in Hull, England.

Giants Pregame

Mychael has been on local Bay Area radio since 2004, and he's hosted KNBR

KNBR

KNBR, The Sports Leader, is the on-air branding used by two AM radio stations in the San Francisco, California, area broadcasting a sports radio format, owned by Cumulus Media....

's weekend edition of "SportsPhone 680" before and after every San Francisco Giants broadcast since 2007.

"Aces" Book

Mychael is the author of the book "Aces," an inside story of the Oakland A's "Big Three" of Tim Hudson

Tim Hudson

Timothy Adam Hudson is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Atlanta Braves. Hudson began his major league career with the Oakland Athletics and played his last two years of college eligibility at Auburn University...

, Mark Mulder

Mark Mulder

Mark Alan Mulder is a retired left-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball.-Oakland Athletics:...

 and Barry Zito

Barry Zito

Barry Zito is a Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. He previously played seven seasons with the Oakland Athletics, where he won the 2002 American League Cy Young Award and made three All-Star teams....

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Personal

Mychael is a native of Redwood City and lives in Livermore with his wife and two daughters.

External links

• KNBR Bio
• CSN Bay Area
• twitter Page
• Mychael Urban's Blog
• Facebook Page