TEMPE, Ariz. —
The fact came to José Mota’s attention near the end of last season.
For all of the Latino stars across Major League Baseball, there were no Latin-born former players working full time in one of the league’s 30 English-language television broadcast booths.
This year, that will change.
Mota was announced as the Angels’ new television color commentator Thursday, being elevated from his previous role on the team’s pre- and postgame show into a new three-man booth alongside longtime analyst Mark Gubicza and newly hired Matt Vasgersian and Daron Sutton, who will split play-by-play duties.