Broadcasters

2025 marks Jesse Agler¡¯s 12th season as a member of the Padres¡¯ broadcast team and his fifth as the lead play-by-play broadcaster for Padres radio broadcasts on the club¡¯s flagship station 97.3 The Fan. Agler also serves as the fill-in announcer on Padres telecasts.

Agler joined the Padres front office in February of 2014 as a broadcaster and as director of content, a role in which he oversaw all club digital and social operations.

During the baseball offseason, Agler calls play-by-play of national radio broadcasts on Compass Media Networks for NFL, NCAA football and NCAA basketball games. Having come to San Diego by way of Miami, Agler spent four seasons as the pregame, halftime and postgame host on the Dolphins Radio Network. In 2013, he did television play-by-play for the Dolphins¡¯ preseason games on CBS-4.

Agler began his professional career in 2005. His experience includes serving as pregame and postgame radio host for the then-Florida Marlins, the Florida Panthers and the University of Miami Hurricanes¡¯ football and basketball teams. Agler has also previously been the fill-in play-by-play announcer for the Marlins.

A graduate of the University of Miami, Agler¡¯s first job out of college was calling baseball games for the Elkhart (KS) Dusters of the Jayhawk League. Agler and his wife, Tovah, reside in San Marcos with their son, Jonah, and daughter Ellie.

Tony Gwynn Jr. returns for his ninth season as part of the Padres¡¯ broadcast team in 2025 after returning to San Diego prior to the 2017 season. Gwynn Jr. enters his fifth season as the full-time color analyst role this year.

Son of legendary ¡°Mr. Padre,¡± Gwynn Jr. played for the Padres from 2009-10. Originally selected by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2nd round of the June 2003 draft out of San Diego State, he played parts of eight Major League seasons with Milwaukee, San Diego, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Gwynn Jr. batted a career .238 (381-for-1,600) with 48 doubles, 23 triples, seven home runs, 98 RBI and 192 runs scored in 685 games played.

Gwynn Jr. began his broadcasting career in 2016 after joining the broadcast team for the Dodgers¡¯ postgame show on AM 570 LA Sports Radio. Most recently, he has served as co-host of ¡°Gwynn & Chris¡± on 97.3 The Fan and resides in San Diego with his wife, Alyse, their son Anthony III, and three daughters, Makayla, Jordan and Leighton.

Don Orsillo made his debut as a member of the Padres¡¯ broadcast team in 2016, calling games for both television and radio broadcasts. After assuming the full-time television play-by-play duties in 2017, Orsillo called his 3,000th game in 2022 and returns in 2025 for his 10th season in San Diego.

In addition to his work for the Padres, Orsillo also calls nationally broadcasted MLB games for FOX, FS1 and TBS during the regular season. Orsillo came to San Diego from Boston, where he spent 15 seasons with NESN as the primary play-by-play announcer for the Red Sox. While at NESN, he also hosted the weekly Red Sox Report, as well as the offseason weekly program Hot Stove Live.

In addition to his postseason experience with the Red Sox, Orsillo has called ten MLB post seasons as a broadcaster for TBS. His postseason work includes the National and American League Divisional Series from 2007 to 2013, 2018, 2020 and again in 2021. Orsillo¡¯s broadcasting repertoire also includes college basketball and hockey, having called both Boston College basketball games and Hockey East matches on NESN, as well as Providence College basketball games on the Big East Network/ESPN PLUS.

Orsillo¡¯s numerous accolades include six Emmy Awards for outstanding play-by-play (2003 and 2004 with Boston, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023 with the Padres) and two New England Sports Best Play-by-Play awards (2014 and 2015). He was named Massachusetts Broadcaster of the year twice in 2005 and 2015. Through his role with the Red Sox, Orsillo has appeared in a number of motion pictures, including 2013¡¯s The Heat, 2010¡¯s The Town and 2005¡¯s Fever Pitch.

A graduate of Northeastern University, Orsillo began his broadcasting career in minor league baseball, calling games for the Pittsfield Mets (1991-92), Binghamton Mets (1993-95), and Pawtucket Red Sox (1996-2000). He also has previously called minor league hockey games for the American Hockey League (Springfield Indians/Falcons 1991-96).

Orsillo has two daughters: Sydney, 24, and Madison, 22. He and his wife Kathy reside in Coronado.

Mark ¡°Mud¡± Grant returns to Padres.TV in 2025 for his 30th season as color analyst for Padres television broadcasts.

No stranger to San Diego baseball, Grant pitched for the Padres from 1987-90. Originally selected by the San Francisco Giants with the 10th pick in the first round of the 1981 Draft out of Joliet (IL) Catholic High School, he played parts of eight Major League seasons with San Francisco, San Diego, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston and Colorado. Grant went 22-32 with eight saves and a 4.31 ERA in 233 games (58 starts). He recorded a career-high eight wins and posted a 3.33 ERA for the Padres in 1989.

Grant began his broadcasting career at KFMB Radio in 1994 as a sports anchor and talk show host. After retiring from baseball in 1995, he provided analysis of Prime Sports¡¯ Padres broadcasts in 1996, then joined Channel 4 San Diego upon its inception in 1997. In 2012, he was part of the on-air team that helped launch the regional sports network FOX Sports San Diego (now Padres.TV).

Grant is active in the community, where he works with the Down Syndrome Association of San Diego and has been associated with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of San Diego since 1987. Additionally, he serves as a spokesperson for St. Madeleine Sophie¡¯s Center in El Cajon, a vocational and educational center for developmentally disabled adults. Grant and his wife, Mary, reside in Alpine with their daughter, Alexis, and two sons, Andrew and Aidan.

2025 marks the 22nd season that Bob Scanlan has been covering Padres baseball, his current role is the primary television sideline reporter and pre and post-game analyst, while also working in the radio booth as both play-by-play announcer and radio analyst. Scans versatility extends to providing occasional interviews for our Spanish radio pregame show.

Bob retired in 2003 after a 20-year professional playing career, which included nine MLB campaigns with the Cubs, Brewers, Astros, Tigers, Royals, and Expos, as well as time in the Padres minor league system. Scanlan quickly transitioned to his broadcast career as an analyst on the Padres radio pre-game and post-game shows and served as analyst on both Radio and TV, moving to his primary role as TV sideline reporter and pre and post-game analyst in 2017.

Bob¡¯s on and off the field awards include a Rolaids Relief Man award for his work as the closer for the Cubs in 1992, three television Emmy Awards covering Padres baseball, and multiple minor league championships and All-Star appearances. As a member of the San Diego community for most of three decades, his greatest reward is getting to share Padres baseball every night with San Diego fans around the world.

Eduardo Ortega, the Spanish-language voice of the Padres, will be calling Padres games for his 39th season in 2025, his 45th year in the broadcasting business. Ortega does play-by-play for both Spanish television broadcasts and Spanish radio (XEMO).

One of the most ighly regarded Spanish-language sports broadcasters in the business, Ortega has broadcast postseason baseball since 1993 for various outlets, including CBS Hispanic Radio Network, Cadena Caracol, LBC Radio Network and ESPN Deportes Radio.

He has called 20 MLB All-Star Games, 25 World Series, 10 no-hitters including Joe Musgrove¡¯s first no-hitter in club history and Dylan Cease¡¯s no-hitter in Washington last season, along with 17 one-hitter games for the Padres. Other milestones Ortega has called include Tony Gwynn¡¯s and Ricky Henderson¡¯s 3,000th hits, Randy Johnson¡¯s 4,000th strikeout, Mark McGwire¡¯s 500th homerun, Barry Bonds¡¯ 700th and 755th home runs, Max Scherzer¡¯s 3,000th strikeout, Trevor Hoffman¡¯s breaking of the all-time saves record, Hoffman¡¯s 500th career save, Greg Maddux¡¯s 350th victory, all three cycles in Padres history and four of San Diego¡¯s five division titles.

Ortega has handled the play-by-play worldwide telecasts of 20 Caribbean Series for different radio and television outlets, including Sky Sports TV in 2024 for what was the largest in the event¡¯s history with 8 participating countries. He also was the lead Spanish play-by-play voice for ESPN Deportes Radio in the World Baseball Classic in 2006, 2009, 2013 and 2017. He has broadcast official Padres games from 52 different venues and 75 total different venues when including Spring Training and other exhibition games.

In addition to his time with the Padres, Ortega served one season (1991) as the voice of the San Francisco Giants, four years as announcer for the Tijuana Potros of the Mexican-Pacific Winter League, two seasons broadcasting for Tijuana¡¯s team in the northern Sonora Double-A Summer League, and one year as the voice of the Union Laguna Cotton Growers of Torreon, in the Mexican Summer League. Since 2005, he has been the TV and radio voice of the Mexicali Aguilas in the Liga Mexicana del Pac¨ªfico. Starting in 2015 on the national cable television network Megacable, later on SKY. Ortega celebrated his 23rd anniversary broadcasting on television and radio for the Liga Mexicana del Pacifico after the SKY Sports networked debuted winter ball broadcasts throughout eight Latin American countries in 2020.

In February 2024 he called the Caribbean Series for Sky Sports, including a No hitter game by Venezuela against Nicaragua. Just the second in the history of the tournament and the first in 72 years. In the winter of 2025 he called the Aguilas games for LAMP TV as well with his 20th Caribbean Series celebrated at Mexicali for the international coverage in YouTube broadcast.

In 2015, Ortega was inducted into the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame. Prior to that, in 2012, he was inducted into the Tijuana Sports Hall of Fame. He also was honored in 2004 by the Tijuana sports media with a Career Achievement Award, and the Mexican Federation of Sportscasters celebrated his 25th anniversary in broadcasting and his multiple contributions to the industry.

In addition, Ortega was named Sportscaster of the Year by the Sportswriters Association of Tijuana in 1997, Sports Ambassador of Tijuana by the city¡¯s mayor in 1998, the Broadcasting Award by ACDN (National Sports Writers of Nicaragua) in 2012 and more recently, the 2017 Abelardo Raidi Career Achievement Award, named after the pioneer and founder of AIPS American, a worldwide sports media organization. Ortega is a Tijuana native and a long-time San Diego resident.

In 2025, Carlos Hernandez enters his 14th season as the main Padres color analyst for Spanish telecasts, following a Major League playing career that spanned 11 seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1990-96), San Diego Padres (1997-2000) and St. Louis Cardinals (2000).

Signed by the Dodgers as a free agent in 1984, Hernandez became the second Venezuelan catcher in MLB history, following Bo D¨ªaz. He made his Major League debut in 1990 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. A highly skilled defensive player, he spent his Dodgers career (1990-96) mainly as a back-up catcher to Mike Scioscia and Mike Piazza, appearing in 230 games, with 133 starts. He signed with the Padres as a free agent and in his first full season as a regular catch for the organization, Hernandez batted .262 with 9 home runs and 52 RBI in 129 games played.

Hernandez finished his career batting .253 (315-1244) with 24 home runs, 141 RBI, 102 runs, 51 doubles, one triple and one stolen base in 488 games played. In 22 postseason games, he hit .299 (20-67) with one home run and two RBI.

In 2004, Hernandez led the Toros de Tijuana to the playoffs as manager of the Mexican Summer League team. Hernandez returned to the Padres organization in 2005, serving as the club¡¯s catching coordinator until 2007. He served as manager of the prestigious Leones del Caracas Venezuelan Winter League club from 2006-08 and was the catching coordinator for the Arizona Diamondbacks from 2010-13.