Tommy Hutton is wrapping up a broadcasting run that has stretched across more than four decades, and he’s doing it with the kind of perspective only baseball can give you. As he enters the final month of his career, the longtime Marlins analyst sat down with Isaac Azout and Alex Krutchik on Fish Unfiltered to look back on the ride - the players, the partners, the jokes, the rants, and the parts of the job he’ll actually miss.
Hutton has spent 28 seasons as a television analyst for the Marlins, and the 2026 season will be the one that closes the book on his time in the booth. Over the years, he’s worked alongside Joe Angel, Rich Waltz, and most recently Kyle Sielaff. Before all that, he logged parts of 12 MLB seasons as a player, which gave him a front-row seat to the game long before he ever started describing it from the broadcast table.
At 80, Hutton said baseball is still going to stay in his life in one form or another. “I'll still watch because I've grown up in the game of baseball,” the 80-year-old says.
“I'll miss the camaraderie of talking to our camera guys and the guys upstairs and broadcasters. That's probably the main thing.”
The conversation also revisited last Sunday’s “Thank You Tommy Day” celebration at loanDepot park, where Hutton was honored as he neared the end of his Marlins broadcasting career. He also talked about the best Marlins players he’s covered, what he’ll miss most about the day-to-day work, what he absolutely won’t miss, and some of his favorite on-air rants from over the years.
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