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The ABS challenge system has already paid major dividends for Major League Baseball. Not only has it led to getting calls right for batters and pitchers, which is most important, but it’s led to some viral moments as well. Ok, maybe MLB umpires aren’t too happy with that last part as the ABS system has…
When Jason Benetti was hired as the top MLB announcer for NBC Sports’ new package earlier this year, baseball fans rejoiced. From his time calling local White Sox and Tigers games through his years at Fox, Benetti has long been a fan (and industry) favorite. Getting the Sunday Night Baseball job was his coronation. But…
Jason Benetti was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, a group of permanent motor disorders that affect movement and posture, at just two years old, leaving him with an awkward gait, a lazy eye, and an upbringing where he had to navigate being so visibly different in a world that wasn’t designed to be accommodating for those…
Jason Benetti is a man of many talents. And he got to unveil one of those talents during a rain delay between the Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds on Friday night. Benetti has quickly established himself as one of the top play-by-play callers in all of sports. He was recently named the lead voice for…
The Detroit Tigers walked off the Kansas City Royals 10-9 to cap off a crazy Thursday at Comerica Park. The game featured nearly two hours of delays due to rain (two delays) and umpire Andy Fletcher battling an illness (also two delays). And the Tigers trailed 9-7 with two outs in the bottom of the…
The idea behind NBC’s rotating analyst model for Sunday Night Baseball was sound enough on paper. Jason Benetti — one of the best play-by-play voices in baseball, by most accounts — anchors every game, while former players with direct ties to the teams playing that week fill the analyst chairs beside him. Instead of a…
The MLB Opening Day doubleheader on NBC and Peacock delivered strong gains over 2025, averaging 2.7 million viewers across both games. The network’s broadcasts of Pittsburgh at the Mets and Arizona at the Dodgers marked the return of baseball to NBC platforms for the first time since 2000, as well as the debuts of flashy…
Jason Benetti revealed during Sunday night’s sign-off of Guardians-Mariners that this week’s Sunday Night Baseball broadcast — Cardinals at Tigers on April 6 — will feature Brad Thompson and Andy Dirks. Benetti confirmed during the sign-off last night that next Sunday’s analysts for St. Louis-Detroit will be Brad Thompson from the Cardinals and Andy Dirks…
Any broadcast that doesn't have you muting the TV is a winner.
Jason Benetti was born 10 weeks premature at the University of Chicago Hospital, where he spent the first three months of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit, connected to tubes and pumps, recovering from a respiratory illness that deprived his blood of oxygen. The cerebral palsy diagnosis came two years later, after doctor Read more... The post Jason Benetti puts what it means to be voice of ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ into perspective appeared first on Awful Announcing.
After months of speculation that he was the leading candidate to become NBC’s lead MLB play-by-play announcer, Jason Benetti was officially announced for that role earlier this month. Benetti, who is also the TV voice of the Detroit Tigers, had been doing play-by-play work for Fox Sports since 2002. However, when he got the call Read more... The post Jason Benetti explains how he left Fox early to become NBC’s MLB play-by-play announcer appeared first on Awful Announcing.
NBC promised to feature MLB analysts with ties to the teams they would cover in its broadcasts, and it has followed through on its Opening Day coverage teams. MLB Network analyst and former New York Mets pitcher Al Leiter and former Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Neil Walker are serving as the game analysts for the Read more... The post Orel Hershiser, Luis Gonzalez to call MLB Opening Day for NBC appeared first on Awful Announcing.
The World Series legends will join Jason Benetti in the broadcast booth. The post Orel Hershiser, Luis Gonzalez Join NBC MLB Opening Day Coverage appeared first on Front Office Sports.
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