L-A Radio: MLB Dodgers Add Tim Neverett To Broadcasts

Tim Neverett

Tim Neverett, a veteran of the Red Sox, Pirates and Rockies’ radio and television broadcast crews, will call a partial slate of games on KLAC 570-AM and SportsNet LA in 2019. He will handle television play-by-play duties during Joe Davis’ national assignments and radio play-by-play duties for Charley Steiner, who requested to cut back on his broadcast schedule per a club announcement.

According to The OC Register, the Dodgers announced a three-year contract extension through 2021 for the 69-year-old Steiner, who joined the Dodgers’ broadcast team in 2005.

“Father Time, Mother Nature, and the road have never lost a battle. I’m just trying to keep pace with those three, and hopefully getting to call the final out of the Dodgers’ next championship,” Steiner said in a statement released by the team. “Tim will be a great addition to the Dodger broadcast, and I am so thrilled to have him join the Dodger family.”

The Dodgers did not renew the contract of Kevin Kennedy, who had filled in as a color analyst on radio broadcasts the last five years. Analyst Rick Monday shifted to play-by-play duties during Kennedy’s appearances. He will remain an analyst alongside Steiner and Neverett in 2019.

Kennedy will return to MLB Network Radio on Sirius XM in 2019, his 15th year with the network.

Neverett, 52, served as the radio play-by-play voice of the Red Sox for the past three seasons. That followed a seven-year stint as the radio and television play-by-play announcer for the Pirates. Before he filled a variety of roles for FSN Rocky Mountain in Denver, Neverett broadcast Triple-A baseball games in Las Vegas for the Dodgers’ and Padres’ affiliate.

“I am honored and humbled to have the opportunity to join such an established and talented group of radio and television broadcasters, as well as the gifted production personnel with the Dodgers,” Neverett said in a statement. “My family and I are thrilled to be able to be part of the Dodger family and be back in the National League. I am very much looking forward to getting started, renewing old acquaintances and making new ones.”