Victor Rojas
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Victor Rojas is a member of the Texas Rangers radio broadcast team. He joined the Rangers in 2004, replacing Vince Cotroneo (now with the Oakland Athletics). Rojas works with lead announcer Eric Nadel on all regular-season games and a number of spring training games. Currently he does play-by-play for the middle innings (4-7) and provides color commentary for Nadel during the other innings. He has worked a few Rangers games on television as a fill-in announcer for regular play-by-play man Josh Lewin, and he has also appeared on ESPN.
Rojas is the son of former major-league player and manager Cookie Rojas. Born in Miami, Florida and raised in Overland Park, Kansas, Rojas played college baseball as a pitcher and catcher at the College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California, and Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. He pitched in the California Angels minor league system in the early 1990s, then worked at The Upper Deck Co. and on the Florida Marlins baseball staff in 1993. He was the pitching coach for the Rio Grande Valley White Wings of the independent Texas-Louisiana League in 1994.
Rojas was a radio and television announcer for the Newark Bears of the independent Atlantic League for two years, and also served as the franchise's general manager. He worked as a broadcaster for MLB Radio in 2002 and 2003 on the All-Star Game and the Arizona Fall League. He moved up to the radio booth for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2003 before joining the Rangers. He is married with three children.
