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Victor Rojas began his tenure with the Texas Rangers in the 2004 season and will join Eric Nadel once again for 12 spring training and all 162 regular season games in 2005.
The 38-year-old Rojas, came to the Rangers from the Arizona Diamondbacks, where he spent the 2003 season doing radio play-by-play and analysis on the club's radio network. He also contributed to Arizona's pre and post-game radio coverage. Plus he has had extensive experience with MLB Radio over the last three years, serving as the play-by-play announcer for the 2002 All-Star Game in Milwaukee and the 2002-2003 Arizona Fall League seasons.
Prior to joining the Diamondbacks, Rojas spent two seasons doing radio play-by-play and and television analysis for the Newark Bears of the Atlantic League. With Newark, he was also the team's Assistant General Manager and was responsible for the signing of players such as major league veterans Jack Armstrong, Billy Ashley, Jose Canseco, Pete Incaviglia, Lance Johnson, Mark Leiter, Jm Leyritz, and Jaime Navarro.
Rojas is the son of former major league player and manager Cookie Rojas and pitched in the California Angels minor league system in the early 1990's. Rojas was on the Florida Marlins baseball staff in 1993 and served as pitching coach at Rio Grande in the Texas-Louisiana League in 1994.
Born in Miami and raised in Overland Park, Kansas, Rojas graduated from broadcast school (Brown Institute/Bauder College) in 1987. He played college baseball at the College of the Desert in Palm Springs, California, and Lewis-Clark State University in Lewiston, Idaho as a catcher and pitcher. Victor is married to the former Kimberly Conti and has three children, Brianna Nicole, Mattingly Grace and Tyler. |
