José Mota (baseball)
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José Manuel Mota Matos (born March 16, 1965) is a Dominican baseball broadcaster. He currently covers the Los Angeles Dodgers on Spectrum SportsNet LA. He formerly covered the Los Angeles Angels with Bally Sports West from 2002 until his departure in 2022. He began on the Angels Spanish broadcast in 2002 and took on various roles on the English television broadcast starting in 2007. He worked alongside Amaury Pi-Gonzalez in the broadcast booth in Spanish and alongside Mark Gubicza in English. Fully bilingual, he conducts postgame interviews and often doubles as the translator for Spanish-speaking players. He served as a pre-and-postgame analyst on Angels Live and occasionally filled in as a backup play-by-play announcer for English broadcasts. He is the son of former baseball player and long-time Dodgers coach Manny Mota.
José Mota | |
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Second baseman | |
Born: (1965-03-16) March 16, 1965 (age 59) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | |
Batted: Both Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
May 25, 1991, for the San Diego Padres | |
Last MLB appearance | |
June 2, 1995, for the Kansas City Royals | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .211 |
Hits | 8 |
Runs batted in | 2 |
Teams | |