The Diamondbacks are parting ways with longtime broadcaster Steve Berthiaume, opting not to bring him back after 14 seasons as their television play-by-play voice.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis contract is up and we felt it was a good time to take a step back and re-evaluate our broadcasts,\u201d Diamondbacks president Derrick Hall said. \u201cHe was here 14 years and was a great DBack.\u201d<\/p>\n
Berthiaume departs as the longest-tenured play-by-play man in club history. Known for his hard-working pregame prep work, his broadcasts maintained a focus on the action on the field while also highlighting his strong rapport with analyst Bob Brenly, his partner during his entire tenure.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m obviously surprised and disappointed,\u201d Berthiaume told The Arizona Republic on Monday. \u201cAs I told the Diamondbacks, I\u2019m very appreciative to have had the opportunity to connect with our fan base these past 14 years. I\u2019ve always tried to put the club first. I enjoyed my Arizona experience, and I\u2019m grateful to all my friends and colleagues in our broadcast group.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m quite proud of how hard our group worked to raise the production level on our shows. MLB Local Media is an outstanding partner and I\u2019m sure will continue to be. I\u2019m looking forward to what\u2019s next.\u201d<\/p>\n
Berthiaume joined the Diamondbacks ahead of the 2013 season. He came to Arizona after 12 years with ESPN, where he was a “Baseball Tonight” host and a SportsCenter anchor.<\/p>\n
It is not clear how the Diamondbacks will proceed in replacing Berthiaume, though radio play-by-play broadcaster Chris Garagiola is expected to be among the candidates.<\/p>\n
It is also unknown whether the club will make additional changes to its primary broadcasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Diamondbacks are parting ways with longtime broadcaster Steve Berthiaume, opting not to bring him back after 14…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,38,19,4,29650,27733],"class_list":["post-825998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-diamondbacks","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports-television","tag-steve-berthiaume"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117415375223426479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825998","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=825998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}