Buck Martinez’s place in Toronto Blue Jays history — first as a player, then a manager, and primarily as a TV analyst — can never be replaced. But the Blue Jays’ television network has reportedly identified Martinez’s successor.

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According to Rob Longley of the Toronto Sun, Joe Siddall is sliding into the Blue Jays’ television analyst’s chair.

Siddall, who filled in for Martinez last year when he was on medical leave, will work alongside Blue Jays play-by-play announced Dan Shulman for 125 to 130 games in 2026, according to Longley.

Blue Jays broadcaster Joe Siddall catches Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper conspicuously spraying the barrel of his bat with pine tar in the dugout. MLB Rule1.10(c) States 18 inches from the knob is the max. pic.twitter.com/Qze4umZdlH

— Blue Jays Central (@BlueJayCentral) June 5, 2025

Martinez retired after the Blue Jays’ run to the 2025 World Series run ended a breath away from a championship.

Martinez, 77, was known to a generation of U.S. audiences for his work with ESPN. He was in the analyst’s chair for the network’s broadcast of Cal Ripken’s 2,131st consecutive game — a game for which Martinez collected a Sports Emmy.

However, Martinez is primarily identified with the Blue Jays, the team he played for over the final six seasons of a 17-year MLB career. He even briefly managed the team in 2001 and 2002, interrupting more than three decades of work with Shulman on Blue Jays broadcasts in Canada.

#OTD 32 years ago, Denis Boucher (Lachine, Que.) pitched his first home game for the Expos.

With Joe Siddall (Windsor, Ont.) catching and Larry Walker (Maple Ridge, B.C.) in RF for the Expos, it was the first time in modern MLB history that 3 🇨🇦s started for the same team.

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— Kevin Glew (@coopincanada) September 6, 2025

Siddall was a member of the Blue Jays radio team for four years before moving to television in 2018 as an analyst on Blue Jays Central alongside Jamie Campbell.

In 2025, his 13th year with the team, Siddall split the season between the broadcast booth and Blue Jays Central.

Siddall played 13 years professionally as a catcher with the Montreal Expos, Florida Marlins, Detroit Tigers, and Boston Red Sox (1988-2000), spending parts of four seasons in MLB with Montreal (1993, 1995), Florida, (1996), and Detroit (1998).

A Windsor, Ontario native, Siddall played quarterback for Central Michigan University in college in addition to baseball.

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