ESPN has announced that Jessica Mendoza and Aaron Boone will join the "Sunday Night Baseball" broadcast full-time for the 2016 season.

They replace Curt Schilling, who moves to Monday, and John Kruk, who returns to "Baseball Tonight."

An Olympic gold medalist and softball's premier hitter, Mendoza found herself needing a new career when softball was dropped from the Summer Games. The Stanford alum joined ESPN in 2007 and didn't give much thought to calling baseball until the following year, when Kruk took part in Women's College World Series coverage.