Blue Jays Broadcasters

PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER

Buck Martinez returns for a 10th season in the broadcast booth after returning to the Blue Jays for the first time since managing the club in 2002. The 70 year old brings with him 52 years of baseball experience, including 20 years as a player, 37 years in broadcasting, and two as a manager. Beginning in 1967 when he was signed by the Philadelphia Phillies, Martinez spent 20 years as a catcher in professional baseball with the Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers and his final six seasons with the Blue Jays. He appeared in the postseason with Kansas City in 1976, batting .333 in the five-game ALCS against the New York Yankees. Has written three books about his experiences with the Blue Jays, "From Worst to First" (1985), "The Last Out" (1986), and "Change-up" (2016). Among his 14 seasons associated with the Blue Jays, he served as manager for Toronto in 2001 and part of the 2002 season, compiling a 100-115 record. In 2006, he managed the United States team in the inaugural World Baseball Classic. Martinez' first experience with broadcasting came in 1982, when he covered the American League Championship Series, the World Series and the All-Star Game for the Telemedia Radio Network. His television broadcast career began in 1987 as a colour commentator for the Toronto Blue Jays on TSN. He began his work with ESPN radio and television in 1992, and in 1995, Martinez was awarded a Sports EMMY Award for his work on ESPN's coverage of Cal Ripken's 2,131st consecutive game. He worked as a television analyst for the Baltimore Orioles from 2003-2009, for which he won another EMMY, and has also served as a co-host of XM Radio's Baseball This Morning show on the MLB Home Plate channel. Martinez contributed colour commentary for Sunday afternoon games on TBS, as well as for the network's postseason coverage. Most recently, he has worked the All-Star game and the World Series over the last two seasons for MLB International. A California native, Martinez attended Sacramento City College, Sacramento State University, and Central Missouri State University. He and his wife, Arlene, have been married for 44 years and now reside in New Port Richey, FL. They have one son, Casey, a 47th round pick by Toronto in the 2000 First-Year Player Draft.

PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER

Dan Shulman returned to the Toronto Blue Jays broadcast booth in 2016 after a 15-year absence. The Toronto native began his broadcasting career locally in 1990 at CKBB in Barrie before moving to the FAN 1430 (now Sportsnet 590 The FAN) in 1991, where he hosted a number of shows, including Prime Time Sports, The Major League Report and Baseball Today. He began serving as the Blue Jays' play-by-play commentator in 1995 alongside current Blue Jays play-by-play announcer, Buck Martinez. Following his departure from Toronto's broadcast booth in 2001, he joined ESPN full-time after having worked for the network part-time beginning in 1995. The graduate of Western University was the voice of Wednesday Night Baseball (2002-2007), Monday Night Baseball (2008-2010) and served as ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball play-by-play announcer from 2011-2017. In addition, Shulman has called ESPN Radio's MLB postseason since 1998, including World Series action since 2011. He has been a play-by-play voice for NCAA basketball for ESPN since 1995, including the newtwork's signature Saturday Primetime games since 2007. Shulman has received several honours and accolades for his work, including being named the 2011 NSSA National Sportscaster of the Year. Additionally, he is the first two-time winner of the Sports Media Canada Broadcaster of the Year award (2000, 2007).

COLOUR COMMENTATOR

Pat Tabler brings a wealth of experience to Rogers Sportsnet as the network's baseball colour commentator. A former Major Leaguer, Tabler started as a studio analyst on TSN Baseball Tonight in 1993. In 2001, Tabler became the network's full-time analyst on Blue Jays telecasts. The native of Cincinnati, OH, began his Major League career with the Chicago Cubs in 1981 before stops in Cleveland, Kansas City, New York and eventually Toronto, where he won a World Series in 1992. An All-Star in 1987, Tabler was perhaps best known to baseball fans as one of the game's greatest career clutch hitters, batting nearly .500 in bases loaded situations. Tabler was a 1st round pick of the New York Yankees in the 1976 amateur draft and had a career batting average of .282 over 12 Major League seasons.

HOST, BLUE JAYS CENTRAL

Jamie Campbell got his start in sports broadcasting at CBC Sports in 1987. He was a sports anchor at CBC Edmonton from 1993 to 1997 before moving on to CJOH Ottawa for a year. In 1998, he became one of Sportsnet's original broadcasters and co-hosted the first edition of Sportscentral (now Sportsnet Central). He's hosted coverage of the Grey Cup, Super Bowl, NHL Draft, MLB All-Star Game and MLB post-season. He called play-by-play for the Toronto Phantoms of the Arena Football League from 2002-2003, the CFL on Sportsnet in 2004, and was the play-by-play voice of the Toronto Blue Jays from 2005 to 2009. In 2010, at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, millions of Canadians were watching when Campbell announced the country's historic first gold medal won in Canada by Alexandre Bilodeau. He also called the play-by-play for cycling at the London Olympics in 2012. Campbell has been part of the Blue Jays' broadcast team since 2005 and is in his 9th season as host of Blue Jays Central.

ANALYST

Entering his 6th season with Sportsnet, Joe Siddall was a member of the Blue Jays radio team for four years before moving to television in 2018 as an analyst on Blue Jays Central along side Jamie Campbell. He spent the previous 12 years assisting the Detroit Tigers with batting practice for home games. Signed as a free agent by the Montreal Expos in 1987, Siddall played 13 years professionally as a catcher with Expos, Marlins, Tigers and Red Sox (1988-2000), spending parts of four seasons in the Major Leagues with Montreal (1993, 1995), Florida, (1996) and Detroit (1998). He hit his lone Major League home run on August 7, 1998 off Seattle LHP Jeff Fassero at Tiger Stadium in Detroit. Born and raised in Windsor, Siddall attended Assumption High School before accepting a football scholarship to Central Michigan University as a quarterback. Joe and his wife (Dr. Tamara Siddall) have four children - Brooke, Brett, Mackenzie and Kevin (deceased).

REPORTER

A member of the Sportsnet broadcast team since 2001, Hazel Mae has brought extensive broadcast experience and knowledge to the network's baseball coverage. Currently acting as in-game reporter for Sportsnet's Toronto Blue Jays broadcast, Mae brings the sights and sounds of the ballpark alive for viewers coast-to-coast.

In addition to her work at the ball park, Mae serves as guest co-host on Blue Jays Central throughout the season and regularly contributes to Sportsnet Central.

Since signing on with Sportsnet in 2001, Mae's on-screen presence and sports insight led her to anchor both the morning and 6 p.m. ET edition of Sportsnet Central (previously Connected), delivering the latest updates, highlights and results to Canadian sports fans. During this time, Mae also hosted the weekly Toronto Blue Jays magazine show, Jzone.

In 2004, Mae's career took her across the border, where she assumed the role of lead anchor on the New England Sports Network's Sportsnetdesk. Four years later, Mae signed on with MLB Network during its inaugural season and worked on the Emmy Award-winning studio show, MLB Tonight. In addition to her work on MLB Tonight, Mae also hosted the highlight program Quick Pitch and worked as a sideline reporter for Thursday Night Baseball.

Mae returned to Sportsnet in 2011, where she has remains an integral part of the network's Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts.

REPORTER

A member of the Sportsnet broadcasting team since 2009, award-winning reporter Arash Madani has been there and seen it all when it comes to the world of sports. Currently contributing to Sportsnet's coverage of the Blue Jays, Madani brings fans closer to the action with the latest news and updates from the Toronto clubhouse.  

In addition to his work on the diamond, Madani is a regular co-host on Prime Time Sports, Canada's most-listened to sports talk radio program on the Sportsnet 590 The FAN. Madani is also a key contributor of the network's ATP and WTA coverage, and is a regular fixture during Sportsnet's wall-to-wall coverage of the Rogers Cup in Toronto and Montreal. During winter months, he handles rinkside reporter duties on Hockey Night In Canada.

During his extensive broadcasting career, Madani has covered a wide range of sports, including multiple World Series, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup finals, Super Bowls and several summer and winter Olympic Games.  

Born and raised in Truro, Nova Scotia, Arash began his journalism career at a young age as a columnist and freelance writer at the Truro Daily News. Following his time at his hometown newspaper, Madani made his television debut as a news anchor on A-Channel News in Ottawa.   Madani would go on to cover the sports beats in Ottawa, Montreal and Calgary before returning to television with Sportsnet in 2009.  

ANALYST

Signing on with the Blue Jays on Sportsnet broadcast team in 2018, Cliff Floyd brings over 16 years of first-hand MLB experience as a Blue Jays Central analyst alongside fellow panelists Jamie Campbell and Joe Siddall.

In addition to his work covering Canada's Team on Sportsnet, Floyd also hosts on the SiriusXM's MLB Network Radio and SiriusXM's Fantasy Sports Radio out of the United States. Before stepping into the broadcast booth, Floyd enjoyed a 17-season career as a left fielder in the Major Leagues. Selected as the 14th overall pick in the 1991 Major League Baseball Draft by the Montreal Expos, Floyd made his professional debut in 1993. Following his time in Montreal, Floyd would go on to contribute to several franchises, including the New York Mets and the Chicago Cubs, and earn a trip to the MLB All-Star Game in 2001

After making his final MLB appearance, Floyd stepped off the field and in front of a camera and joined the Fox Sports Florida broadcast team in 2010. Continuing his career in broadcast, Floyd would go on to contribute to FOX Sports Baseball Night in America and SportsNet New York before joining Sportsnet in 2018.

PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER

Entering his 2nd season as the radio voice of the Toronto Blue Jays, Ben Wagner spent the previous 11 seasons with the club's Triple-A affiliate, the Buffalo Bisons (2007-2017), handling broadcast duties on radio and television. The native of New Paris, Indiana started his professional career in baseball with the Lakewood BlueClaws (2004-2006). Wagner attended Indiana State University where he was the sports director at WISU for three years and broadcasted baseball, football and basketball. Away from the ballpark, he covers Division I college basketball on television and radio.

PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER/HOST, BLUE JAYS TALK

In his 18th season as a member of the Blue Jays' broadcast crew, Wilner moves into a full-time play-by-play role, partnering with Ben Wagner. The first Blue Jays radio play-by-play broadcaster who was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Mike hosted the pre- and post-game (BlueJaysTalk) shows from 2002-2018, while serving as the back-up on play-by-play for the past eight seasons. A graduate from the University of Toronto in 1994 (B.Sc. Psychology; Ethics, Society and Law), he began his radio career with University of Toronto Radio in 1988, where covering the Blue Jays was among his duties. Mike was named Sports Director in 1989, and did play-by-play of hockey, football and basketball. He started his professional play-by-play career at age 19 with the Single-A Welland Pirates, later broadcast for the Single-A Watertown Indians and Double-A Hardware City (New Britain) Rock Cats. Mike is also the fiercely proud father of two teenage daughters.

PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER (FRENCH)

For 33 years on CKAC, Jacques Doucet was the voice of the Montreal Expos. Followed suit with the play-by-play calls for the Capitales de Québec of the Can-Am league. Inducted into the Québec (2002) and Canadian (2003) Baseball Hall of Fame, he met again with his long-time friend Rodger Brulotte to put together again the celebrity duo that is so synonymous with the Montreal Expos, but is now the French-speaking voice of the Toronto Blue Jays. Doucet was the recipient of the Jack Graney Award in 2004.

PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER (FRENCH)

Rodger Brulotte's association with the Expos began in 1969 as a member of the club's scouting department. The following year he was named administrative assistant to the director of scouting and player personnel, Mel Didier. Brulotte had also been in public relations and marketing as well as serving as the team's traveling secretary from 1977-1978. He spent 17 seasons with Jacques Doucet on the Expos' French radio network. For his work on television, more than 20 years at RDS analyzing Expos games, Major League baseball games, All-Star games and post season games, he and his partner, Denis Casavant, were nominated twice for a Gemeaux Award for sports broadcasting. In 2013, Brulotte was honoured with the Jack Graney Award joining Jacques Doucet, Jerry Howarth and Tom Cheek as members of this elite group. As of August 2012, he joined TVA Sports Network as an analyst on the Blue Jays' French broadcasts. His hobbies are golf, books and movies.

HOST

Born and raised in the Philippines, Aquino (Host) is also co-host of Filipino current affairs and news broadcast TV Migrante. She is passionate about connecting with Filipino-Canadians and volunteered her time at the Kapisanan Philippines Centre for Arts and Culture.

COLOUR COMMENTATOR

Cruz is the CEO of Crossover Sports Canada, a sporting events management company. Cruz has extensive experience in planning and managing local community programs, including Durham Crossover Basketball Club. He graduated from Durham College in Sports Business Management.

PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER

Born and raised in Quezon City, Philippines, de Torres is a sports enthusiast and is actively involved in his Vancouver community baseball and basketball leagues. De Torres has been an extra in a variety of shows, including Riverdale, The Good Doctor, Colony and Salvation.

ANALYST

Salacup (Analyst) has more than 40 years of baseball expertise, playing at the junior league, varsity and amateur levels in the Philippines. He is an ambassador for the Filipino community in Toronto, and is part of many organizations, such as the University of the Philippines Alumni Association of Canada, and the Filipino-Canadian Association of Niagara.