Jim Tocco
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Jim Tocco (born September 3, 1976) is a minor-league baseball announcer. Tocco grew up in North Olmsted, Ohio and attended Bowling Green State University, where he graduated with a B.A. in Journalism in 1998.
After stints with the Charleston (SC) RiverDogs, Wilmington (DE) Blue Rocks, Charleston (WV) Alley Cats, and Lansing (MI) Lugnuts he is currently the announcer for the Montgomery (AL) Biscuits.
While with the Lugnuts, Tocco took on a blogger who disagreed with Tocco's assessment of Chicago Cubs' prospect Felix Pie who played for the Lugnuts at the time. The blogger, Andy Dolan, had seen Pie play four times against the Beloit Snappers and believed Tocco's assessments were incorrect. After reading Dolan's opinion -- which included an insult -- two months after it had been published, Tocco responded with a letter. "You are way, way out of your league when talking about Cubs prospects, pal," he wrote. Tocco claimed that the fact he had seen Pie play 100 times in 2003 compared to Dolan's four qualified him as an expert. Dolan printed the whole encounter on his blog. [1]. Tocco claimed that a person needed to see a player play 100 times before he could make any evaluation of a players' talent.
In 2006, Tocco was named the Southern League Broadcaster of the year [2]
