Jason Benetti will be named NBC’s lead play-by-play announcer for its Major League Baseball coverage, according to Front Office Sports.
Benetti, who is the current play-by-play announcer for the Detroit Tigers, will kick off the season on March 26 when the Los Angeles Dodgers host the Arizona Diamondbacks. He will then settle in as the main voice of NBC’s “Sunday Night Baseball” with a rotating cast of analysts from local broadcast teams.
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Prior to his time calling Tigers games, Benetti was the main television voice of the Chicago White Sox for eight seasons.
NBC won’t be Benetti’s first time in front of a national audience. Since 2022 he has worked as an announcer on Fox’s college football, college basketball and MLB coverage. This also won’t be Benetti’s first time with NBC. He served as the lead voice of Olympic baseball coverage during the 2020 Summer Olympics and was part of the network’s MLB “Sunday Leadoff” games on Peacock.
NBC has already announced that former MLB players Clayton Kershaw, Joey Votto and Anthony Rizzo will serve as studio analysts on its broadcasts for 2026 and beyond. Longtime announcer Bob Costas will serve as studio host.
Last year, NBC struck a deal that will see it pay nearly $200 million per year for “Sunday Night Baseball,” formerly of ESPN, and a “Sunday Leadoff” package, as well as the wild-card round of the playoffs. Peacock will be the exclusive home of many of those games, as its broadcast schedule lays out.
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