Shulman to leave ESPN 'Sunday Night Baseball' after 2017

"Sunday Night Baseball" will have a new voice next season.

Following a seven-year run as the play-by-play man for ESPN's weekly national broadcast, Dan Shulman will step down at the end of the 2017 season, he announced Monday.

"I certainly have mixed emotions about it, but at the end of the day, I chose to strike a better balance between my personal life and professional life," Shulman said in an interview with Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch. "I'm grateful to ESPN for giving me this opportunity, and equally grateful that they agreed to let me reconfigure my situation in order to make this work. It was not an easy choice."

Shulman, a Toronto native, isn't leaving the network, though, and stressed that the decision to step down was entirely his own. He will still have a full NCAA basketball schedule at ESPN, and will continue to call the MLB postseason on ESPN Radio as well as a handful of weeknight baseball games for the flagship network.

"I still want to accomplish certain things professionally but getting the balance in my personal life was the important thing. The older we get I think we sometimes re-prioritize and I guess I'm doing that.”

It's not yet known who will replace Shulman on "Sunday Night Baseball," and the 50-year-old didn't want to speculate as to who will do play-by-play for the network in 2018.

"That's not my say," Shulman said. "I have not given that a moment's thought. They have some good candidates internally and I am sure that person will be great."