If you watch the Tigers during the regular season, you have likely grown to know and love the voice of Jason Benetti. He started with the club as the Tiger’s primary play-by-play announcer in the 2024 season, and while he hasn’t been around long—he was with the White Sox before coming to Detroit—he has become a beloved part of the Tigers home-viewing experience. He tempers his vast knowledge of the game with an enthusiastic sense of fun and whimsy, and brings out the best in whoever happens to be sharing
a booth with him for the games. Even the stodgiest color commentator becomes a joyful co-conspirator when Benetti is seated alongside him.
Well, starting in the 2026 season, the Tigers are going to need to share Benetti with a national broadcast audience. He has been hired as the new lead play-by-play announcer for NBC’s Sunday Night Baseball. While this, thankfully, does not mean Benetti is bidding farewell to the Tigers, it does mean we’ll get a different voice for television broadcasts on Sundays while he works for the national crew. I, for one, won’t mind this if it means we get to steal the sonorous delights of Dan Dickerson on the TV broadcasts once a week, but the official slate of announers for those games remains to be seen (or heard).
This is wonderful news, indeed, for Benetti, who is perhaps one of the best announcers currently working in baseball, and deserves to be heard by a wider audience. As long as it doesn’t make him consider leaving Detroit, of course.
Here’s the statement from the Tigers on the announcement.
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- Creating an “All-Time” WBC team.
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- Some bold predictions for the World Baseball Classic.
- One Astros player will miss the WBC after fracturing his finger.
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