Oakland A’s broadcasters Vince Cotroneo, left, and Ken Korach talk in the radio booth before the start of the game against the San Francisco Giants Sunday May 21, 2006 at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. This was Cotroneo’s first year with the A’s. (Bay Area News Group, Bob Larson/Staff Archives)

Oakland A’s podcast with Jerry Feitelberg:

After 41 years of calling professional baseball Oakland A’s broadcaster Vince Cotroneo is hanging up the microphone. This is my 32nd year calling Major League Baseball.” Cotroneo said, “2024 will be my last year broadcasting for the Athletics.”

Cotroneo joined the A’s after the passing of legendary broadcaster Bill King in 2006. Cotroneo worked minor league games from various locations from 1984-1990. In the 1991 season he got his break with his first Major League job in 1991 broadcasting Houston Astros games until the 1997 season. Cotroneo called Texas Rangers games from 1997 to 2003 and was out of broadcasting in 2004 and 2005.

It was not until 2006 after the passing of Bill King that Cotroneo was hired to be the number two announcer in the A’s radio booth behind lead announcer Ken Korach. Last season (2023) after A’s TV play by play announcer Glen Kuiper who used the N word on live TV and was fired by the A’s Cotroneo stepped in and did a spectacular job as the TV play by play announcer.

For the 2024 season Cotroneo went back to doing radio and the A’s had announced in the off season that they would be moving to Sacramento to play for the interim while their Tropicana ballpark is being built in Las Vegas. With Sutter Health Field being a minor league facility a smaller venue to work in for radio it might have been part of the reason why Cotroneo is leaving.

Jerry Feitelberg is an Oakland A’s podcast contributor at http://www.sportsradioservice.com