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tv & radio INFORMATION

JOSÉ MOTA television analyst
José Mota enters his 19th season with the Angels broadcast team. He currently serves
as a TV pre- and postgame analyst on Fox Sports West. In addition to those duties,
he also handled the in-game color analyst role for home Spanish television broadcasts
during the 2013-17 seasons. From 2010-12 he worked as the English radio analyst, after
serving as the play-by-play/analyst for Spanish radio broadcasts the previous eight
seasons .
On Aug. 19-20, 2017, Mota handled play-by-play for the Angels radio broadcasts on AM830 and became
the first MLB broadcaster to do have called play-by-play on a team’s English radio broadcasts and Spanish
radio broadcasts, as well as working as a color analyst on the English and Spanish television broadcasts.
In 2018, Mota assisted Vladimir Guerrero as the translator at his introductory press conference and
media appearances after Guerrero was announced as part of the 2018 Baseball Hall of Fame Class. He also
translated for Guerrero during the 2018 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Cooperstown.
He has also worked as an MLB Network analyst/correspondent and has served as a sideline reporter for
ESPN during the World Baseball Classic (2006, 2013 & 2017) and on select Sunday Night Baseball telecasts.
Additionally, he handles the color analyst and play-by-play duties for select national broadcasts during
Saturday’s Game of the Week on FOX.
José has broadcasted at multiple major events such as the 2006 ALCS (FOX), the 2007 MLB All-Star Game
in San Francisco (FOX) and the 2007 MLB Playoffs (TBS). In 2008, he joined Yahoo Sports as a baseball
analyst, contributing video features and website articles. In 2009, he worked as MLB International’s color
analyst for the worldwide broadcast of the World Baseball Classic.
A bilingual talent, Mota joined the Angels in 2002 after working as a broadcaster for MLB Radio. During
under the halo
the 2001 season, Mota worked as a play-by-play announcer for DirecTV Latin America which provided MLB
broadcast coverage to 26 Latin American countries. He has been the featured analyst for MLB Productions’
Sabor a Béisbol, a Spanish-language feature show available to national and international audiences.
From 1997 until his current appointment, José served
as a color analyst/play-by-play announcer for the FOX
baseball “Game of the Week” in Spanish, including MLB
playoffs and World Series, and for the “NFL Sunday”
football broadcasts. His first-ever MLB broadcast
assignment was for the Los Angeles Dodgers Spanish
radio in 2001 .
A former Major League baseball player with the San
Diego Padres (1991) and Kansas City Royals (1995),
Mota was originally drafted by the Chicago White Sox in
1985. He was a two-time Collegiate All-American second
baseman at Cal State Fullerton and owns a bachelors
degree in Communications from CSUF. He was the
starting second baseman for the 1984 National Champion
Titans and was an inductee to the Cal State Fullerton
Department of Communications’ Alumni Wall of Fame in
2017. In 1999, José made his film debut in Kevin Costner’s
Universal Studios release For Love of the Game in which
he portrayed Dominican shortstop “José Garcia.” He is a
member of the Screen Actors Guild.
In January 2015, Mota was honored at the Southern
California Sports Broadcasters Awards as the winner for
best foreign language color commentary for his work
during the 2014 season.
He has served as the first and only full-time bilingual
baseball broadcaster, as on a given day, José addresses
both the Spanish and the English-speaking baseball
audiences. Mota was also selected by OC Metro
Publications as one of the “Hottest 25” personalities in
Orange County for 2007. The Mota family founded the non-profit Mota’s Faces in 2011, which promotes
the involvement of American youngsters in assisting impoverished school children and their families in the
Dominican Republic.
A native of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Mota is the son of longtime Dodger Manny Mota. He and
his family make their home in the San Gabriel Valley.

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