Dave Raymond

Dave Raymond (born August 12, 1972) is an American sportscaster. He is the primary television play-by-play announcer for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball. He has also worked for the San Francisco Giants, Baltimore Orioles (2005), and Houston Astros (2006 to 2012).

Career

Business reporter

A former business reporter for Forbes magazine, Raymond was nominated for the prestigious 2001 Loeb Award for Outstanding Business Reporting. His article about accounting irregularities at Microstrategy in early 2000 initiated the eventual stock market correction. An article in The Washington Post cited his story as the impetus for the Internet bubble bursting. "This one popped the bubble," wrote James Cramer, columnist for TheStreet.com. "MicroStrategy forever changed the Internet mania."

Baseball announcer Raymond's experience includes minor league stops with the independent Brockton Rox (2005), Triple-A Iowa Cubs (2000–2004), Single-A Charleston RiverDogs (1999), and the independent Sonoma County Crushers (1995–1998). According to a story in the April 20, 2000, issue of Sports Illustrated, Raymond was traded from the minor league Charleston RiverDogs to the independent league St. Paul Saints for a "case of crab cakes and a pound of shrimp." A 2019 bio in The Athletic has a different version: "Raymond became the second baseball broadcaster in history to be traded. [Mike] Veeck’s young daughter Rebecca was going blind, so he traded Raymond and a case of crab cakes to the Saints for a wind machine and the announcing tandem of Jim Lucas and Don Wardlow, who was completely blind." Either way, Raymond took a job with the Iowa Cubs before he could report to his new club.

Raymond worked as a fill-in announcer for the Giants in 2003 and the Orioles in 2005. He and Brett Dolan were hired by the Astros beginning in the 2006 season to work with Milo Hamilton.

Raymond left the Astros after the 2012 season. He called games on MLB.com from 2013 to 2016. He began calling Texas Rangers games on television and radio during the 2016 season as fill-in announcer. In 2017, he became the primary television play-by-play announcer. Raymond served as Senior Class President at Stanford University while competing for the varsity track and field team. He earned distinction as a Scholar Athlete.

Raymond met his wife, Tish, after college. They have three children.