{"id":394769,"date":"2026-01-06T06:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394769\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T06:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:34:07","slug":"jason-benetti-top-candidate-to-be-nbc-mlb-play-by-play-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394769\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Benetti top candidate to be NBC MLB play-by-play voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Sports play-by-play announcer Jason Benetti is \u201cthe leading candidate to be the top MLB play-by-play voice on NBC,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/jason-benetti-nbc-baseball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Benetti has emerged as the leading candidate to be the top MLB play-by-play voice on NBC, sources told Front Office Sports. Benetti previously called MLB for Sunday morning games on NBC\u2019s Peacock streaming service.<\/p>\n<p>Benetti is one of the most versatile broadcasters in the industry, calling MLB, college football, college basketball, and occasionally NFL games for Fox Sports. Additionally, he\u2019s the television play-by-play voice of the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>And Benetti has experience calling MLB games for NBC, as Glasspiegel notes. In 2021, he served as NBC\u2019s play-by-play announcer for baseball at the Summer Olympics, and in 2022, he became the lead play-by-play announcer for MLB Sunday Leadoff games on Peacock.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Fox Sports, Benetti put his multi-sport broadcasting skills to use for ESPN from 2011-2022. And prior to becoming the TV voice of the Tigers in 2024, he was the TV voice of the Chicago White Sox from 2016 to 2023. He\u2019s been a fan favorite in any role he\u2019s had.<\/p>\n<p>Glasspiegel notes that \u201c[Benetti\u2019s] contract is not up until later this year, and Fox would have to grant permission for him to take the NBC job, sources said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March 2026, MLB returns to NBC for the first time since 2000 with <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nbc\/mlb-new-deal-labor-day-peacock-nbcsn-sunday-night-baseball.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a three-year media rights deal<\/a> that includes 25 Sunday Night Baseball games per year, as well as the entire Wild Card round of postseason games, and exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/mlb\/nbc-dodgers-2026-opening-day-world-series-banner.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Opening Day<\/a> and Labor Day primetime games.<\/p>\n<p>Benetti would be an excellent choice to be the top MLB play-by-play announcer for NBC, as <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.awfulannouncing.com\/nbc\/mlb-play-by-announcer-candidates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Awful Announcing\u2019s Sam Neumann explained<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox Sports play-by-play announcer Jason Benetti is \u201cthe leading candidate to be the top MLB play-by-play voice on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,210871,591,85,75105],"class_list":{"0":"post-394769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-jason-benetti","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sunday-night-baseball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}