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On The Radio Ep. 13

BEN WAGNER:

Entering his 2nd season as the radio voice of the Toronto Blue Jays, Ben Wagner spent the previous 11 seasons with the club's Triple-A affiliate, the Buffalo Bisons (2007-2017), handling broadcast duties on radio and television.

The native of New Paris, Indiana started his professional career in baseball with the Lakewood BlueClaws (2004-2006). As a child, he was a fan of the Chicago Cubs. He was hired for his first on-air role in November 1997, with WAWC-FM in Syracuse, Indiana.

Wagner attended Indiana State University, where he worked for WISU-FM calling both men's and women's college baseball games, and graduated in December 2003 with a bachelor's degree in radio-TV/film.

Wagner attended Indiana State University where he was the sports director at WISU for three years and broadcasted baseball, football and basketball. Away from the ballpark, he covers Division I college basketball on television and radio.

MIKE WILNER:

In his 18th season as a member of the Blue Jays' broadcast crew, Wilner moves into a full-time play-by-play role, partnering with Ben Wagner.

The first Blue Jays radio play-by-play broadcaster who was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Mike hosted the pre- and post-game (BlueJaysTalk) shows from 2002-2018, while serving as the back-up on play-by-play for the past eight seasons.

A graduate from the University of Toronto in 1994 (B.Sc. Psychology; Ethics, Society and Law), he began his radio career with University of Toronto Radio in 1988, where covering the Blue Jays was among his duties.

Mike was named Sports Director in 1989, and did play-by-play of hockey, football and basketball. He started his professional play-by-play career at age 19 with the Single-A Welland Pirates, later broadcast for the Single-A Watertown Indians and Double-A Hardware City (New Britain) Rock Cats. Mike is also the fiercely proud father of two teenage daughters.


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