Roughly four years ago now, the present author facilitated a crowdsourcing project designed to place a “grade” on each of the league’s television and radio broadcast teams. The results weren’t intended to represent the objective quality or skill of the relevant announcers, but rather to provide a clue as to which broadcast teams are likely to appeal most (or least) to the readers of this site. Consider: the average telecast of a major-league game offers four distinct audio feeds — which is to say, the radio and television commentary both for the home and road clubs. The idea of these broadcast rankings was to give readers an opportunity to make an informed decision about how they consume a telecast.

The results of that original exercise have been useful as a complement to the dumb NERD scores published by the author in these pages. Four years later, however, they’ve become much less useful. In the meantime, a number of the broadcast teams cited in that original effort have changed personnel. It’s possible that the tastes of this site’s readers have changed, also.

As such, what this post represents is the start of another of those crowdsourcing efforts. The first step: to arrive at some understanding of whom, exactly, we’re grading. The names below are intended to represent the main television broadcast teams for each of the league’s 30 clubs. (The radio broadcast teams will be addressed in a future post.) The information here is taken from a combination of Wikipedia and MLB.com, but would benefit from readers who possess a more intimate knowledge of how each club’s broadcasts are executed.

Again, the idea here is to identify the broadcasters most frequently found in each team’s booth. Many clubs have occasional color commentators and guest announcers, but isolating the most regular contributors will make this process more efficient, if slightly less nuanced.

Note that, where a slash (/) divides multiple names, the suggestion is that the relevant announcers are participating in a fairly even timeshare. Note also that — incorrectly or not — both the Chicago White Sox’ and Los Angeles Dodgers’ broadcasters have been split into home and away teams, creating 32 total entries.

Please offer any relevant clarifications or corrections in the comment section.

Arizona: Steve Berthiaume, Bob Brenly

Atlanta: Chip Caray, Joe Simpson

Baltimore: Gary Thorne, Jim Palmer

Boston: Dave O’Brien, Jerry Remy

Chicago (AL) Home: Jason Benetti, Steve Stone

Chicago (AL) Away: Ken Harrelson, Steve Stone

Chicago (NL): Len Kasper, Jim Deshaies

Cincinnati: Thom Brennaman, Chris Welsh

Cleveland: Matt Underwood, Rick Manning

Colorado: Drew Goodman, Jeff Huson

Detroit: Mario Impemba, Rod Allen

Houston: Bill Brown, Alan Ashby

Kansas City: Ryan Lefebvre/Steve Physioc, Rex Hudler

Los Angeles (AL): Victor Rojas, Mark Gubicza

Los Angeles (NL) Home: Vin Scully

Los Angeles (NL) Away: J. Davis/C. Steiner, N. Garciaparra/O. Hershiser

Miami: Rich Waltz, Al Leiter/Eduardo Perez/Preston Wilson

Milwaukee: Brian Anderson, Bill Schroeder

Minnesota: Dick Bremer, Bert Blyleven

New York (AL): Michael Kay, Five Whole Other Guys

New York (NL): Gary Cohen, Ron Darling, Keith Hernandez

Oakland: Glen Kuiper, Ray Fosse

Philadelphia: Tom McCarthy, Ben Davis, Matt Stairs

Pittsburgh: Joe Block/Greg Brown, Bob Walk, Steve Blass/John Wehner

St. Louis: Dan McLaughlin, Al Hrabosky

San Diego: Dick Enberg, Mark Grant

San Francisco: Duane Kuiper, Mike Krukow

Seattle: Dave Sims, Mike Blowers

Tampa Bay: Dewayne Staats, Brian Anderson

Texas: Steve Busby, Tom Grieve

Toronto: Buck Martinez, Pat Tabler

Washington: Bob Carpenter, F. P. Santangelo