Atlanta Braves Broadcasters

The 2023 season marks Powell's 30th as a Major League broadcaster and his 15th year in the Atlanta Braves radio booth.

He previously was a member of the Milwaukee Brewers broadcast team, teaming with another Hall of Famer, Bob Uecker, longer than any other broadcaster.

In January of 2020, Powell was inducted into the Georgia Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

Powell joined the Brewers in 1996 and was named the 1998 Wisconsin Sportscaster of the Year. In addition to his radio duties, he spent time as a member of the Brewers television team during the 1999 and 2000 seasons.

He began his Major League broadcasting career with the Minnesota Twins in a reserve role in 1993 and 1994. Prior to this, he accumulated extensive experience at the minor-league level, serving as play-by-play announcer for the Charlotte Knights (1990-91, 1995) and the Columbia Mets (1987-89, 1993-94).

Powell started his broadcasting career with an internship in the newsroom and sports office at WGST-AM while he was in high school. He then worked at WRFC in Athens while attending the University of Georgia, followed by positions in Columbia, South Carolina, with WOLO-TV and then WVOC radio.

In 1991, Powell was hired by WSB-AM to work weekends, where he covered the Braves, Georgia Bulldogs and Atlanta Falcons for two years.

Both he and his wife Emmy are active members of their community, supporting numerous charities such as the Rally Foundation, the Child Abuse Prevention Fund, Jungle Kids for Christ, the Dunamis Foundation, Camp Kudzu, UGA Miracle, Make a Miracle and local youth athletic programs. He spends his winters coaching youth basketball and is also an avid tennis player.

A native of Roswell, Ga., Powell attended the University of Georgia as a National Merit Scholar.

Jim and Emmy, also a Georgia native, have three daughters: Allie, Sabrina and Julia.

Joe Simpson is in his 32nd season as an Atlanta Braves broadcaster. He was inducted into the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame on January 27, 2018.

The 2023 season marks his 17th campaign calling games on Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast, and he will also reprise his role as an analyst on radio broadcast this season, along with being an analyst on radio broadcast.

Simpson played professionally for 11 seasons, beginning in 1973 when he was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the third round. He joined the Seattle Mariners in 1979 before being traded to the Kansas City Royals in 1983. An outfielder and first baseman throughout his professional career, he retired from the California Angels organization following the 1984 season. He had his best season in 1979, when he hit .283 in 120 games for the Mariners. Simpson worked as an analyst on Seattle Mariners telecasts for five years before joining Turner Sports in 1992. Simpson was named "Georgia Sports Broadcaster of the Year" in 1995.

An All-American outfielder and first baseman at the University of Oklahoma, Simpson was born in Purcell, Oklahoma.

Joe and his wife Kathy live in Marietta, Ga. They have two children, Meg and Gabe, and one grandson.

Tom Glavine enters his 13th season as an analyst for Atlanta Braves telecasts on Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast.

Glavine returns to the networks in 2023 after taking the 2022 season off to spend more time with his family.

Glavine was selected as a pitcher by the Atlanta Braves in the second round of the 1984 MLB Amateur Draft and made his big league debut in 1987. He played 22 MLB seasons, including 17 with the Braves (1987-2002, 2008) and five with the New York Mets (2003-2007).

Glavine owns a 305-203 career record and compiled 244 of his victories with the Atlanta Braves. He is a two-time National League Cy Young Award winner (1991 & 1998) and a ten-time National League All-Star.

Glavine was named Most Valuable Player of the 1995 World Series when the Atlanta Braves defeated the Cleveland Indians.

A five-time 20-game winner, Glavine joined the 300-win club with an 8-3 victory over the Cubs in 2007.

Glavine was inducted into Braves Hall of Fame in 2010 and the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014.

Jeff Francoeur enters his sixth season as lead analyst for Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast. This is his seventh season overall as analyst for the networks.

A 12-year MLB veteran, Francoeur spent six seasons (2005-09, 2016) with the Atlanta Braves. Francoeur also played for the New York Mets (2009-10), Texas Rangers (2010), Kansas City Royals (2011-13), San Francisco Giants (2013), San Diego Padres (2014), Philadelphia Phillies (2015) and the Miami Marlins (2016).

In 2018, Francoeur also served as a game analyst for FOX Sports South’s coverage of the ACC Baseball Championship.

Francoeur, an outfielder, won a National League Gold Glove in 2007.

Francoeur was drafted by the Braves in the first round (23rd pick) of the 2002 MLB Draft.

Francoeur has served as a national analyst for TBS since 2019, calling regular season and postseason games on the network.

An Atlanta native, Francoeur graduated from Parkview High School in Lilburn, GA, in 2002.

2023 is Ingram's 13th season with the Braves Radio Network. This is his 5th season with a regular role in the radio booth calling play-by-play alongside Jim Powell and Joe Simpson.

Ingram hosted the Braves pregame show from 2012-2020, and hosted the postgame show from 2011-2019. He has also been the host of the Braves’ Clubhouse Report, heard on the flagship station of the Braves, 680 The Fan.

Prior to joining the Braves Radio Network, Ingram spent six season broadcasting minor league baseball with the Jackson Senators, Eugene Emeralds and Mississippi Braves.

Ingram, a native of Madison, MS, graduated from Mississippi College and was named 2014 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year by the Department of Communication.

Ben also calls college football in the offseason, including the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. He resides in Buckhead.

Brandon Gaudin is the new play-by-play announcer for Atlanta Braves telecasts on Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast.

Gaudin has worked as a play-by-play broadcaster for FOX Sports and the Big Ten Network since 2016, calling MLB, NFL and college football and basketball games.

His voice is also well known in the gaming world. He has been the play-by-play voice on the Madden NFL franchise each year since Madden NFL 17 launched in 2016.

Previously, Gaudin was the Voice of the Yellow Jackets, calling football, men’s basketball, and baseball at Georgia Tech from 2013-16. He has remained an Atlanta resident ever since.

Gaudin is a graduate of Butler University, where he was named “Most Outstanding Communications Student” and one of the “Top 10 Male students” in his graduating class of 2006. After college, he began his professional career calling Minor League Baseball games for the Orem Owlz in the Los Angeles Angels organization.

Gaudin grew up a die-hard Braves fan in Evansville, Indiana. The first professional sporting event he attended was Game 5 of the 1991 World Series where the Braves defeated the Minnesota Twins 14-5. He returned to Atlanta for World Series trips in 1992 and 1995. He watched the Braves religiously on TBS and would play make-believe games every day after school in the foyer of his childhood home. He pretended to be then-Braves-voice Skip Caray as he announced the action while “playing” as the Braves. He credits the Braves with fostering his love for baseball and sports broadcasting, a profession he proclaimed he wanted to pursue from age 7 onward.

Gaudin’s unique career path has been lined with jobs of destiny, in a way. In 2008 he got to return to his hometown of Evansville to be the “Voice of the Evansville Purple Aces” for 3 seasons. Following that, he was hired by his alma mater, Butler, to be their play-by-play voice from 2010-13 (and was on the call for their magical run to the Final Four in 2011). And now, 10 years later, he gets to fulfill his childhood dream of being the TV voice of the Atlanta Braves.

Gaudin’s resume also includes over eight years calling NFL and NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament games for Westwood One Radio (2015-present).