Even Derek Jeter can learn something new about the game of baseball.

When the former New York Yankees captain joined the Fox Sports roster for the 2023 baseball season, he recalls, he had to find his way on camera. “I didn’t know what to expect. They just threw me at the desk,” Jeter says while holding forth with his colleagues Alex Rodriguez, David Ortiz and Kevin Burkhardt, in a makeshift lounge set up for them among the executive offices at New York’s Citi Field. One time, he remembers, “someone started talking to me in my ear and I almost answered them on the air.”

When this quartet convenes Friday night for commentary before and after Game 1 of the World Series, they are likely to have worked out any jitters as they start a run as one of the most-watched entities on TV. Fox has televised MLB’s signature event since 2000, but never,...