Martinez returning this season after pondering retirement following bout with cancer, but fellow Jays broadcaster Pat Tabler won’t return
Buck Martinez will return to Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts this season, after suggesting that he was considering retirement in the wake of a bout with cancer that sidelined him for more than three months last year.
But he’ll be doing so without one of his longtime on-air partners, after Sportsnet said in December it would not be bringing back Pat Tabler, one half of the network’s popular Buck-and-Tabby duo. Martinez will split analyst duties with Joe Siddall, while Dan Shulman will serve as the network’s primary play-by-play man.that his illness had prodded him to think about stepping away from the microphone.
The confirmation of Martinez’s return came as Sportsnet announced its on-air TV and radio team for the coming season, which included one other notable change. Arden Zwelling will replace Arash Madani as a sideline reporter, teaming with Hazel Mae in that role on Sportsnet TV broadcasts. For fans of the old-fashioned experience of listening to a ball game on the radio, but who may no longer own an actual radio, Sportsnet announced it had finally secured the rights to distribute its Blue Jays radio broadcasts through online platforms, including sportsnet.ca and the Sportsnet Now service.
Ben Wagner will be calling the Blue Jays games for the Sportsnet Radio Network, heard on local stations in Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary – and, now, the company’s online platforms. However, with Sportsnet under increasing budget pressures, Wagner will only be in-stadium for home games. He will not travel with the team, and will instead call road games from monitors in the network’s downtown Toronto studio.
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