Now that Joe Buck is on his way to ESPN, the job of calling play-by-play for the World Series belongs to someone else. That someone, FOX revealed this week, is Joe Davis. Davis says it is a situation he is uniquely prepared for.
After Vin Scully’s retirement in 2016, Davis became the full-time television voice of the Dodgers. The press box at Dodger Stadium is named for Scully. Certainly Joe Davis is no stranger to following a legendary voice of baseball.
“I think replacing somebody like that or replacing somebody like Joe, you’re not going to do it,” Davis told Richard Deitsch of The Athletic. “Vin is the greatest ever to do this job. Joe, to me, is the greatest of this generation. You’re not going to replace those guys. If you’re trying to replace them, you’re probably going to try to be somebody that you’re not.”
Joe Davis prefers to say that he followed Vin Scully as the voice of the Dodgers and now he is going to follow Joe Buck as the voice of the World Series.
Buck has already reached out to Davis to offer his advice and congratulations. That is not something that surprised Davis at all.
“His favorite thing about this is that I get this opportunity, which just shows you what kind of guy he is.”
Being named the new voice of the World Series on FOX is a true honor for Joe Davis. For him, it isn’t just about the job itself. It is just as special for him to take up the mantle from one of his heroes in the business.
“It’s just been a really special thing to go from him being the guy that I held up on this pedestal thinking I could one day be a little bit like him to learning so much from him and now getting to be the person that follows him in one of the great chairs in this business. It’s all really mind-blowing to me, and I don’t know that I’ll ever completely wrap my mind around it.”
