Broadcasters

Tom Hamilton, the “Voice of the Guardians,” will enter his 34th season of calling Cleveland Guardians baseball games on the radio in 2023. In his 33 seasons since 1990, Hamilton has called all 101 Postseason games the Cleveland franchise has played over that span, including three World Series' (1995, 1997, 2016). His 33-year tenure, along with Rick Manning, is the second-longest in club history next to his former partner, Herb Score (34 years, 1964-97).

Hamilton is joined in the booth by Jim Rosenhaus, providing action and commentary for all 162 regular season games and 15 spring training contests on Newsradio WTAM 1100, 100.7FM WMMS and the Guardians Radio Network.

Tom came to the Guardians after spending three seasons as a broadcaster for the AAA Columbus Clippers (1987-89), then the top farm club of the New York Yankees. Previously, Tom worked in Milwaukee, Appleton, Watertown and Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

Some of his broadcasting credits include University of Wisconsin football games, University of Colorado basketball games, the Appleton Foxes Minor League baseball games and work for ABC radio. He is a seven-time recipient of the Ohio Sportscaster of the Year Award (1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2013, 2016). The Press Club of Cleveland inducted Tom into its Journalism Hall of Fame in November 2015. Tom also called Big Ten Conference basketball on television for 25 years. In honor of his 20th season with the club, Tom was given the 2009 Cleveland Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame Award.

Hamilton is a native of Waterloo, Wisconsin. He resides in Avon Lake, Ohio with his wife, Wendy. The Hamilton’s have four children: two boys, Nicholas and Bradley, and two girls, Kelsey and Katie. Both Nick and Brad played baseball for and graduated from Kent State University.

2023 marks the 17th season for Jim Rosenhaus as part of the Cleveland Guardians radio broadcast team and his 12th teaming with Tom Hamilton on every game broadcast. During his time with Cleveland, Jim has also served as the host of Guardians Warm Up and Guardians Weekly on the Guardians Radio Network. Jim also provides webcasts (CLEGuardians.com) for most Spring Training games not available on the Guardians Radio Network. For the last 11 seasons he has also served as the Guardians team correspondent for MLB Network.

Rosenhaus joined the Guardians prior to the 2007 season after spending 11 years as the play- by-play voice of then AAA affiliate, the Buffalo Bisons. Jim started his professional baseball broadcasting career with Cleveland's long-time Single-A affiliate in Kinston, NC. In addition to his baseball broadcasting work, Rosenhaus spent 11 years as the voice of the University of Buffalo men’s basketball team.

In the baseball offseason, Jim has worked various televised events for SportsTime Ohio, including college and high school basketball, OHSAA football state playoffs and college and high school volleyball.

On July 24, 2011, Jim was inducted into the Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame, along with former Indians catcher, Tony Pena. Jim resides in Bay Village, Ohio with his wife, Carole, and sons, Nathan and Cole.

The former Cleveland center fielder returns for his 34th season as color commentator for Guardians baseball telecasts on Bally Sports Great Lakes and on WKYC- TV. Rick's tenure with the club began in 1990 and his 33-year tenure is the second-longest in franchise history (alongside Tom Hamilton).

"Arch", 68, began his professional baseball career with the Cleveland Indians as the first-round selection (2nd overall) in the 1972 June draft out of LaSalle High School in Niagara Falls, NY. The first 8 1/2 years of his 13-year Major League career were spent in Cleveland (1975-1983), where he won a Gold Glove in 1976 for his fielding prowess. Manning was also selected as the BBWAA “Good Guy” award winner for the 1980 season and caught the final out in Len Barker's 1981 perfect game. He later played with the Milwaukee Brewers from 1983-87 before ending his 13-year career with a career batting mark of .257 (1349-5248) in 1555 games.

Rick and his wife, Sue, reside in Scottsdale, Arizona. He has two children, Kyle and Jessica, and eight grandchildren.

Matt begins his 24th season as a broadcaster for the Cleveland Guardians, while 2023 will mark his 17th year in the TV booth calling play-by-play with partner Rick Manning. He spent seven seasons (2000-06) as a member of the Cleveland radio broadcast team and 13 years as host of the club's pregame show, aired heard across the Guardians Radio Network.

Matt began his career with local ABC affiliate WEWS-TV5, where he spent 17 years and served as the station’s sports director from 1997-1999. Underwood has called play-by-play action for the OHSAA football playoffs as well as NCAA football on then SportsTime Ohio.

The Ashland, OH native graduated from Baldwin-Wallace College in 1990. He is a member of both the Ashland County Sports Hall of Fame and the Baldwin-Wallace Radio Hall of Fame. In 2013, Underwood received the Alumni Merit Award from B-W and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Ashland High School. Matt has helped raise money for numerous charitable organizations including Cleveland Guardians Charities, Team Focus, Ashland County Cancer Association and The Sophia Underwood Memorial Scholarship.

He currently resides in Avon Lake, Ohio with his wife, Shelley. They have two children, Max and Devan.

Andre begins his ninth season as a reporter for all Cleveland Guardians telecasts on Bally Sports Great Lakes.

Knott has contributed to Bally Sports Great Lakes's broadcasts in a wide variety of capacities over the years, covering high school football, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Cleveland Browns, in addition to hosting Drennan Live. Previously, he was the Browns Radio Network sideline reporter for six years, 2004-10, and has also been seen and heard covering Cleveland sports on WKNR, WEWS and Newsradio WTAM 1100. He has also produced several successful podcast series.

Andre and his wife, Jennifer, reside in Wadsworth, Ohio with their children, Isabella and AJ. He is a graduate of Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary High School and Kent State University. He was an All-Ohio running back and four-time letter winner in baseball at St Vincent-St. Mary, earning SVSM Hall of Fame induction honors in 2018.