BASEBALL
2025 Honoree
Matt Vasgersian is entering his fifth season in the television booth as a play-by-play voice of the Angels. In addition to the Angels broadcasts, Matt maintains a national profile with MLB Network, including play-by-play in the postseason.
Vasgersian was the first host hired with the launch of the MLB Network in 2009. His continuing position with MLB includes various programming such as “Hot Stove” and “MLB Tonight,” roles for which in 2015 he was nominated for a National Sports Emmy.
The veteran broadcaster has called various regular season and playoff baseball telecasts for Fox Sports, including the Saturday “Game of the Week” from 2014-17 and was the play-by-play caller of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball for four seasons. He was the voice of the San Diego Padres for seven seasons, and prior to that held the same role with the Milwaukee Brewers for five seasons. Matt called baseball and softball, among other events, for NBC Sports during the 2004 Summer Olympics, his first of five
Summer/Winter Olympic assignments with NBC.
In addition to his play-by-play career, Vasgersian is widely known for his 16-year run as the voice of the MLB: The Show video games from 2006-2021.
Between 2005-2008, Vasgersian handled weekly NFL play-by-play with Fox Sports, and called College Football with their BCS Bowl Package for three seasons. Close to home, Matt served as lead play-by-play announcer with NBC’s coverage of the XFL in 2001, and was mic-side for USC Basketball on Fox Sports West between 2004-06.
Vasgersian began his baseball broadcasting career with the Huntington Cubs in the Appalachian League in 1991, before moving up to the Adv.-A High Desert Mavericks (San Diego), El Paso Diablos (Milwaukee), Syracuse Chiefs (Toronto) and Triple-A Tucson Toros (Houston).
A California native, Vasgersian is a graduate of the University of Southern California and was an actor in his childhood, appearing on several television shows and films. Vasgersian and his wife, Kimberly, reside in New Jersey with their three children.