Mariners announce new radio, TV broadcast teams for 2025

Feb 20, 2025, 10:03 AM | Updated: 1:28 pm

Editor, Seattle Sports

The Seattle Mariners have new broadcast teams on both radio and television for the 2025 season, though all the voices will be familiar to fans.

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On the Mariners Radio Network broadcast on Seattle Sports, Rick Rizzs will continue to be the voice of the Mariners, with Gary Hill moving up to be his on-air partner.

On ROOT Sports TV coverage, Aaron Goldsmith takes over as the primary play-by-play broadcaster, with a rotating crew of analysts joining him that includes longtime ROOT broadcaster Angie Mentink and former Mariners players Ryan Rowland-Smith, Dave Valle and Jay Buhner.

Announcing our broadcast squad for the 2025 season!

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— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) February 20, 2025

Mentink and Rowland-Smith will also be heard on select radio broadcasts as well as continue their roles on pregame and postgame show coverage.

The radio broadcast will continue to feature Mariners insider Shannon Drayer of Seattle Sports as a host and reporter on the pregame and postgame shows.

The main changes for the Mariners broadcasts are the departures of longtime play-by-play announcer Dave Sims, who left following last season to be the radio voice of the New York Yankees, and analyst Mike Blowers.

Blowers, a former MLB infielder, and Sims had both been on the Mariners broadcast team since 2007.

Thank you, Mike!

For 1️⃣7️⃣ years, Mike Blowers made our broadcasts extra special with his insight, humor, love for the game and legendary predictions 💙 pic.twitter.com/ZA513BWyRU

— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) February 20, 2025

The Mariners announced the new broadcast teams on Thursday morning, a day ahead of their first Cactus League contest.

“As the calendar turns to baseball season, we are excited to share the personalities and voices that are the soundtrack to summer for fans throughout the Northwest,” said Gregg Greene, Seattle Mariners Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications, in a statement. “We’re incredibly lucky to have the breadth of talent on our broadcast team to share not only the action on the field, but the stories that make Mariners Baseball so special.”

Goldsmith, who along with Sims previously split time between TV and radio, will now be exclusive to the TV broadcasts. He has been with the Mariners since 2013 and along with Hill is regularly featured on The Hot Stove and Cactus League Report on Seattle Sports, and The Wheelhouse Podcast with Jerry Dipoto.

Entering his 40th season in the booth in Seattle, Rizzs is the longest-tenured broadcaster in Mariners history. In addition to his broadcasting career, Rizzs leads the Toys for Kids charity, which has raised millions of dollars for local underprivileged and homeless youth and their families.

Hill, who has been executive producer/engineer for the Mariners Radio Network for the past seven seasons, has been host of the official Seattle Mariners Podcast and a regular fill-in broadcaster throughout that time. The veteran play-by-play announcer also is the voice of UW Huskies women’s basketball.

Mentink, who was a softball standout with the UW Huskies and played professional baseball with the Colorado Silver Bullets, filled in regularly on Mariners TV broadcasts in recent seasons. Mentink has been a presence on Mariners TV broadcasts since 1998 and will become the first female in a regular analyst role in the booth in franchise history.

🟣 Member of the first UW softball team
🟣 First All-American in program history
🟣 First UW softball Husky Hall of Fame inductee
🟣 First female color analyst in @Mariners history@AngieMentink continues to break barriers!#MightyAreTheWomen x #TridentsUp https://t.co/ZCaEtlI4o0 pic.twitter.com/ISfln4SKNW

— Washington Softball (@UWSoftball) February 20, 2025

Rowland-Smith, who has been a regular voice on both Seattle Sports and ROOT, pitched for the Mariners from 2007-10 and the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2014. He also regularly does analysis for MLB Network.

Valle, a former MLB catcher who spent 10 seasons with the Mariners, has been an analyst dating back to 1997 including the first 16 years with the M’s. He has experience as a manager, as well, having spent the 2014 season as skipper of the Everett AquaSox, a Mariners Single-A minor league affiliate.

Buhner, an All-Star and Gold Glove winner during his 15-year MLB career, has made regular appearances in the Mariners TV and radio booths since his retirement as a player in 2001. In 2004, he became the third inductee into the Mariners Hall of Fame.

Mariners Radio Network

Mariners Radio Network broadcasts during the regular season begin with the pregame show at least 65 minutes before first pitch. Seattle Sports 710 AM is the flagship station of the network, which includes over 20 affiliates throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia and Alaska. The Mariners Radio Network also airs Trident Talk, an hour-long magazine show, an hour before the pregame show each Sunday. KIRO Newsradio 97.3 FM also airs Sunday Mariners games.

Mariners radio broadcasts can also be heard live on the Seattle Sports app for listeners in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia and Alaska. For more information on how to stream radio broadcasts of M’s games, click here.