Dewayne Staats (born ca. 1952) is the play-by-play commentator for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays television broadcasts. He is teamed with color commentary announcer Joe Magrane. Dewayne worked for the Houston Astros, the Chicago Cubs, and the New York Yankees prior to joining the Rays in their inaugural season of 1998. As a promotion in 2006, dual talking bobblehead dolls of Staats and Magrane were given away at a home game against the Seattle Mariners. Wikipedia
Dewayne Staats anchors the Emmy-Award winning telecast in this, his 31st season broadcasting Major League Baseball. tampabay.devilrays.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/team/broadcasters.j...
Now Dewayne Staats, in his 25th year as a major-league baseball announcer, is covering a fourth-year team that, 12 games into the season, has lost all traces of spring optimism. www.sptimes.com/News/041601/Sports/For_Staats__the_voice....
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