{"id":595314,"date":"2026-02-27T02:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/595314\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T02:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:50:20","slug":"glen-kuiper-will-reportedly-call-10-15-regular-season-giants-games-in-return-to-mlb-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/595314\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Kuiper will reportedly call 10-15 regular-season Giants games in return to MLB booth"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, news broke that former Oakland A\u2019s announcer Glen Kuiper would return to an MLB booth for the first time since his 2023 firing, calling spring training games for the San Francisco Giants<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It turns out that\u2019s not all Kuiper will be doing with the Giants in the 2026 Major League Baseball season.<\/p>\n

According to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>, Kuiper is expected to call 10-15 Giants games during the regular season. That decision came after the franchise had \u201cdefinite conversations\u201d around bringing the announcer in following his controversial 2023 exit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Giants are committed to inclusion, respect, and earning our fans\u2019 trust,\u201d Rachel Heit, the Giants\u2019 chief marketing officer, told the Chronicle. \u201cWe had numerous conversations about the requirements for excellence we expect from our broadcasters. Glen\u2019s addition to the broadcast team is reflective of how he\u2019s approached his growth and what he\u2019s demonstrated from an accountability perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

In May 2023, during an Athletics game in Kansas City, Kuiper misspoke and\u00a0accidentally used a racial slur<\/a> when referring to the Negro League Museum. He apologized later in the broadcast. After first being suspended, he was later relieved of his duties<\/a> as the A\u2019s television announcer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe Glen took full responsibility,\u201d said Heit.<\/p>\n

Glen joins his brother, Duane, the Giants\u2019 longtime play-by-play announcer, as well as their older brother Jeff, who has worked on the team\u2019s TV production since 1987. He has also been hosting his own podcast and YouTube show<\/a>, where he focuses on the Giants.<\/p>\n

Joe Ritzo, the fill-in radio play-by-play voice, will also call some TV games, and former Giants starter Shawn Estes will return for 10-15 games this season.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Giants have the most stacked broadcast team in all of baseball, both on television and radio. They\u00a0ranked in the top spot<\/a>\u00a0in the 2025 Awful Announcing MLB radio rankings, with Jon Miller and Dave Fleming handling most of the play-by-play duties, and\u00a0third on the TV side<\/a> with Kuiper and Mike Krukow.<\/p>\n

The Giants might be cool with Kuiper\u2019s apology and atonement, but he\u2019ll have to face MLB audiences as well. We\u2019ll see if he addresses any concerns head-on in his first appearance and what kind of reception he receives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, news broke that former Oakland A\u2019s announcer Glen Kuiper would return to an MLB booth for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,77435,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":["post-595314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-giants","tag-baseball","tag-giants","tag-glen-kuiper","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-sanfranciscogiants","tag-sf","tag-sf-giants","tag-sfgiants"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116140325640980429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}