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Rich Waltz enters his fifth season as the Marlins television play-by-play announcer. The 2009 campaign will mark Waltz's 13th consecutive year covering Major League Baseball. Waltz has also called Major League Baseball on a national basis for ESPN, ESPN Radio, and FX. Prior to joining the Marlins, Waltz served as the fill-in announcer and pregame host for the Seattle Mariners television and radio networks. In 2000, he served as the fill-in voice of the Toronto Blue Jays on CBC across Canada.

From 1997-2001 Waltz called play-by-play of College Football for ESPN and ABC in the Big Ten, SEC and ACC conferences; including many Bowl and Championship Games. Waltz's ESPN assignments included Major League Baseball, NCAA Basketball, Arena Football, and Major League Soccer. His football experience includes NFL Europe, NFL Preseason games for the Seattle Seahawks, the Pac Ten Conference , and the Big Sky Conference.

In the offseason Waltz serves as one of the play-by-play voices for FSN's Saturday Night SEC Hoops. He also calls ACC and Big East games for FSN and ESPN Regional Television. His College Basketball work has also included the Pac Ten, Big Ten, Mountain West, West Coast, and Big Sky Conferences.

In 2006 Waltz helped create and organize the FSN Fantasy Auction, which in three years has raised more than $150,000 for the Marlins Community Foundation. For his work he received the 2008 Marlins Community Foundation Outstanding Service Award.

A former college infielder at the University of California-Davis, Waltz, his wife, Renee, and two daughters make their home in Coral Springs, Fla.

Tommy Hutton enters his 13th season as FSN Florida's Marlins analyst. This year marks Hutton's 45th year in professional baseball; 17 years as a player and 28th year as a broadcaster.

A veteran sportscaster, Hutton worked as the color commentator for the 2000 National League Championship Series and World Series for Major League Baseball International. He also covered the 2003 Florida Marlins championship season in its entirety and, in 2005, was selected by FOX Sports to serve as analyst on a number of nationally distributed Major League Baseball game telecasts.

Hutton spent seven seasons (1990-96) as a color commentator with the Toronto Blue Jays organization while also doing weekly telecasts for ESPN.

Hutton, a member of the New York Yankees' radio broadcasting team (1987-89), spent the prior five seasons (1982-86) with the Montreal Expos, teaming up with Marlins radio broadcaster, Dave Van Horne, in the radio booth.

His Major League playing career spanned 12 years, playing first base for the Dodgers, Phillies, Blue Jays and Expos. He delivered 79 career pinch hits posting a .269 career pinch-hitting average and was named to the 1972 Topps All-Rookie Team.

Hutton was a teammate of both Marlins Special Assistants to the President, Tony Perez for two seasons and Andre Dawson for three and half seasons, both in Montreal.

Hutton and his wife Debby, who reside in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, have two sons, Jason and Derek, who live in Jupiter. Jason, the Director of Operations for the Tommy Hutton Baseball Academy and Derek, a former middle infielder for Florida Atlantic University, both work for a nationally recognized insurance and financial planning company.

Minervini is in his eighth season as pregame host/in-game reporter for Marlins games on Fox Sports Florida. He also has handled play-by-play for select Marlins games on TV/radio and hosts FS Florida's INSIDE THE MARLINS series.

During the winter season, Minervini serves as host for Florida Panthers (NHL) hockey on FS Florida and has called several Panthers games on radio.

Before joining Fox Sports, Minervini spent seven years with WTVJ-NBC 6 in Miami as a sports anchor/reporter. He anchored sports on WNBC-TV (NY) in 2004.

Minervini's extensive television broadcasting experience includes a wide variety of assignments such as play-by-play voice for NBC Sports (Notre Dame football), CBS Sports Spectacular, ESPN's college baseball playoffs and Roller Hockey International events, Major League Soccer, XFL Football, boxing and mixed martial arts' events.

Minervini earned a broadcast journalism degree from Syracuse University in 1985 where he called Orangemen football, basketball, lacrosse and soccer while handling AAA Syracuse Chiefs baseball.

A native of Huntington, Long Island (NY), Minervini has two sons, Chase and Maxwell, and a daughter, Spencer.

FOX Sports Florida/Sun Sports' Frank Forte hosts all nine editions of INSIDE THE MARLINS and serves as host of MARLINS LIVE and in-game reporter for a selection of game telecasts in 2009. Over the past three seasons, Forte served as pre-game host and in-game reporter for multiple Marlins regular season telecasts, produced the Inside the Marlins series, and served as host for multiple episodes.

Forte also has extensive experience as a play-by-play announcer; since 1996 he has called the action on numerous games/events on Sun Sports and FOX Sports Florida, including college basketball, football and baseball in addition to the FHSAA High School Football Finals.

Prior to joining Sun Sports/FOX Sports Florida in 2006 Forte worked as a sports anchor at WPLG, an ABC affiliate in Miami for 23 years.

A graduate of Syracuse University, Forte received his B.S. in Television Journalism. He currently resides in Pembroke Pines with his wife Carol and son Brendan.

Raul Striker Jr. begins his sixth year as the Marlins play-by-play SAP announcer on FSN Florida. Joined by Cookie Rojas in the broadcast booth, Striker Jr. has called all Marlins home games on FSN Florida since 2003 on secondary audio programming. In addition, Striker Jr. currently serves as the Miami Dolphins (NFL) football Spanish-language radio analyst.

Striker Jr. was the Spanish-language television pregame, halftime, and in-game reporter of the Miami Heat (NBA) for the 2005 and 2006 seasons.

Before joining the Marlins, Striker Jr. served as anchor/reporter on a variety of sports shows for the Spanish-language television network, Telemundo. During his six years at Telemundo, Striker Jr. hosted Al Ritmo con los Marlins, Noticiero 51 and Primera Edición.

Son of renowned Spanish sportscaster Raul Striker, Striker Jr. has covered sporting events that include the 1997 and 2003 World Series, Miami Dolphins playoffs (1998-99), 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2001 Sugar Bowl, 2002 Rose Bowl and 2003 Fiesta Bowl.

Striker Jr. also served as producer/host of Marlins Semanal, the Marlins official Spanish television show during 2003 and 2004. He also worked as field producer for Fox Sports' weekly show Fox al Bate during 1997 and 1998.

A native of Santurce, Puerto Rico, Striker Jr. has made his home in Miami, Fla. since 1979.

Rojas returns to FSN Florida's SAP broadcast booth for his sixth year as color commentator alongside Raul Striker Jr. Rojas has provided analysis for all regular season home games on FSN Florida since 2003.

Rojas has served as color commentator for ESPN Spanish Radio during the 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 National League Championship Series and World Series. He was also a member of Caribbean World Series Spanish-language broadcasting team in 2005 and 2006.

An experienced baseball mentor, Rojas last coached at the Major League level in 2002 as the Toronto Blue Jays' bench coach. In 2000, he was the New York Mets' third base coach. Rojas also served as Florida's third base coach and infield coach from 1993-1996. Prior to joining the Marlins' coaching staff, Rojas spent 10 seasons with the California Angels as manager (1988), special assistant to the general manager, Major League scout and coach.

During his 19-year major league career, Rojas posted a .263 batting average and was named to five All-Star teams, including four in a row (1971-1974). He played in the first-ever game played at Dodger Stadium and collected his first Major League hit off Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax.

Rojas, a native of Cuba, is a member of the Kansas City Royals', Philadelphia Phillies' and Cuba's Baseball Hall of Fame.

Octavio Victor "Cookie" Rojas and his wife, the former Candy Rosa Boullon, reside in Aventura, FL. They have four children: Octavio Jr., Miguel, Victor and Bobby.

Dave returns for his ninth season as the Marlins' lead radio voice, and the 2009 season marks his 41st year broadcasting Major League Baseball. For 32 seasons, Dave was the Montreal Expos lead broadcaster on radio and television. He began his baseball broadcast career in Richmond, Virginia broadcasting the Braves (AAA) games in the International League.

During his Major League broadcasting career, Van Horne has called 10 no-hitters, including two perfect games. He has also broadcast three World Series and National League Championship Series for a Canadian network and the Marlins 2003 World Championship season.

Dave was twice selected the Virginia Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. He was the recipient of the 1996 Jack Graney Award, given by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, for contributions to the game through broadcasting. Among his biggest broadcasting moments were the Expos inaugural game, Willie Mays' 3000th hit, Nolan Ryan passing Walter Johnson in strikeouts, Steve Carlton striking out his 4000th batter, Pete Rose's 3000th and 4000th hits, Pedro Martinez's Cy Young Award-winning season among many other memorable moments.

He called Expos games on Canadian radio and television as well as The Baseball Network on NBC and ABC. He has partnered in the booth with the likes of Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, Ken Singleton, Buck Martinez, the late Tom Cheek and the Marlins' own Tommy Hutton.

Dave, a native of Easton, Pennsylvania, his wife, Josee, and daughter Madison, live in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

Miami native Glenn Geffner enters his second season as a member of the Florida Marlins radio broadcast team in 2009, his 13th season in the Major Leagues and his 18th year in professional baseball as a broadcaster and front office executive. In addition to his play-by-duties, Glenn hosts the Marlins On Deck pre-game show and the 10th Inning post-game show. This past off-season, he co-hosted a Hot Stove radio show on Marlins flagship station 790 The Ticket.

Geffner owns the rare distinction of having done baseball play-by-play at every level--from college, to Single-A, Double-A, Triple-A, and the Major Leagues. Having broadcast for the Boston Red Sox and the San Diego Padres prior to his return to South Florida, he previously served as the voice of the Rochester Red Wings of the Triple-A International League and handled television play-by-play for the New England Sports Network's coverage of Red Sox minor league baseball during his time in Boston.

Geffner, who has two World Series championship rings (Boston, 2004, 2007) and a National League championship ring (San Diego, 1998), began his broadcasting career while a student at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, calling Wildcats baseball, football and basketball.

Glenn and his wife Christine reside in Weston with sons Corey and Gregg and their daughter Caroline.

Ramírez has been the Spanish "Voice of the Marlins" since the birth of the franchise in 1993. He has called all of the Club's four no-hitters by Al Leiter (1996), Kevin Brown (1997), A.J. Burnett (2001) and Anibal Sanchez (2006) as well as the 1997 and 2003 championship seasons.

As one of the most recognizable voices in sports broadcasting, Ramírez was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on August 5, 2001 as the Ford C. Frick Award winner, a tribute presented each year by the National Baseball Hall of Fame to a broadcaster for "major contributions to the game of baseball."

For more than 35 years, he has been the play-by-play voice of professional baseball in Puerto Rico, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Ramírez's baseball coverage on CMQ Radio in Habana, Cuba (1953-61), was highly regarded among journalists in Latin America.

Felo has been the voice of, all but nine, Caribbean World Series since 1949.

A true pioneer of baseball broadcasting in his native Cuba, Ramírez was the first Hispanic broadcaster to have his narration included in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, with his call of Hank Aaron's 715th home run, his call of Roberto Clemente's 3000th hit and Don Larsen's perfect game during Game 5 of the 1956 World Series.

He has lent his voice to more than 32 World Series and All-Star Games, and was recognized by former Commissioner Bowie Kuhn in 1980 for his extensive contribution to promoting baseball in Latin America from the broadcast booth.

Felo Ramírez is also a member of the Puerto Rican National Sports Museum (class of 2004). A life-size statue of Felo was erected during the inaugural event of the National Sports Museum in Guaynabo, PR commemorating his valuable contributions to the game of baseball.

Rafael Ramírez Arias resides in Miami, Fla.

Quintana returns for his seventh full season as the Marlins' Spanish play-by-play announcer. Besides radio, Quintana serves as the main sports anchor/producer for WJAN41 América Teve in Miami.

With more than 30 years of broadcasting experience, Quintana began his career as a journalist writing for several Cuban national sports magazines and newspapers. Over the airwaves, Quintana served as a commentator and play-by-play announcer for the providence of Las Villas' radio network.

Quintana worked for TV Cubana (1980-1993) as a sports commentator and play-by-play announcer for several national and international championships including baseball, volleyball, basketball, and boxing, among other sports.

After acquiring political asylum from the Venezuelan Republic, Quintana worked as sports analyst and play-by-play announcer for Cadena Super Suave as well as serving as the official play-by-play announcer for the "Tigres de Aragua", of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.

Quintana was selected by fans as the Most Popular Sports Commentator as well as one of the 10 Most Popular Artists in Cuba. He was recently exalted to the National Cuban Hall of Fame (Class of 2007) for his contributions to the sports journalism field and has been named the Miami Life Awards Sports Broadcaster of the Year each of the last two years.

Quintana received his Bachelor's degree in Physical Education and Sports, with a specialization in baseball from Instituto Superior de Cultura Física. Quintana also served as pitching coach for several baseball national championships in Cuba.

Yiky and his wife, Lizet, reside in Miami, Fla.