Miami Marlins announcer Tommy Hutton was recently fired after 19 years on the job, apparently because he was “too negative” on air for owner Jeffery Loria’s taste, per Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald.
Jackson notes this as a particularly poor reason for firing one of the most respectable and well-liked announcers in MLB, writing “Hutton was critical when necessary and had a penchant for unleashing the occasional playful rant, but there’s a distinction between critical and excessively negative.”
Hutton himself completely disagrees with the notion that he was “too negative.”
“I know there were times I was negative, but I thought those times were called for,” he said.