Chris and Stefan Caray make Athletics broadcast debut

Credit: NBC Sports California

Not much has gone right for the Athletics in recent years, both on the diamond and in the broadcast booth. But things are taking a turn for the better in 2026.

The A’s currently sit atop the AL West at 22-20 after failing to eclipse .500 in every season since 2021. And while hard feelings are still top of mind for most of the team’s fanbase after the controversial decision to leave Oakland for Las Vegas (with a three-year stopover in Sacramento to play in a triple-A stadium), the team offered fans something to feel good about this week.

Chris Caray and Stefan Caray, the fourth-generation sports broadcasters that are the great-grandsons of the legendary Harry Caray, called their first Major League series together for NBC Sports California this week, with the Athletics taking on the St. Louis Cardinals.

The Caray brothers, who are twins, are sons to Chip Caray, the current play-by-play voice for the Cardinals, making this series a bit of a family affair. Chip Caray’s father, Skip, was the longtime play-by-play voice of the Atlanta Braves, completing the lineage up the family patriarch Harry.

The Caray family does not have huge ties to the Athletics — Harry Caray called the club for one year in 1970 — but it is where Chris found his start in Major League broadcasting as a part-time play-by-play man filling in for Jenny Cavnar beginning this season. Stefan, on the other hand, calls games on radio for the Cardinals. The duo was grateful to be making their television debut together earlier this week.

“This is number one in my career up to this point, and it’s not even close,” Chris Caray said of the moment. “To get to share the booth with my brother, somebody that we’ve had so many memories in the minor leagues together, and now at the Major League level, I can’t wait for him to show his talent. And you know how it is Towny (Chris Townsend), you have identical twin daughters, they’re basically inseparable. You go to college together, you do everything together, you experience your failures, your successes together. And now, we get to reap the rewards of some great work by our predecessors, and we’re so grateful to the A’s organization for allowing this to happen.”