Beloved Miami Marlins television analyst Tommy Hutton said Monday that the 2026 season will be his last in the broadcast booth.

Hutton, who played parts of 12 seasons at the MLB level from 1966-81, has worked Marlins games for the team’s regional sports networks from 1997-2015 and 2022-25.

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During Monday’s broadcast of the Marlins’ spring training game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Hutton said “I didn’t think a lot about it because I’ve talked about this for a few weeks, actually for a while … but then once you talk to a group of people and make it official … it means a lot to me because who would’ve thought when I signed in 1964 with the Dodgers out of high school that I would’ve had a career in baseball as a player and a broadcaster for over 60 years. Never would’ve thought of that.”

Long after his final season with the Montreal Expos in 1981, Hutton replaced another Expo — Hall of Famer Gary Carter — as the top analyst in the Marlins’ booth besides play-by-play man Jay Randolph in 1997.

Amid a rotating cast of lead play-by-play men — Randolph, Len Kasper, Rich Waltz, Paul Severino — Hutton has been a constant voice for Marlins fans nearly since the franchise’s inception in 1993.

Hutton’s return to the booth in 2022 after a seven-year absence “was widely applauded by fans,” according to Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald, “years after he was dropped for reasons that were never publicly explained either to him or to viewers.”

Hutton got plenty of time to speak to viewers about his impending retirement Monday. Now he’ll have the rest of the 2026 season to bid a long, fond farewell.

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