Carlos Peña Joins Red Sox Broadcast Team on NESN for 2019

Feb. 20, 2019 — NESN, the official home of the Boston Red Sox, announced today changes to the network’s lineup of Red Sox broadcasters for 2019. The network’s broadcast team brings over 150 years of combined baseball broadcasting experience and includes nine former Red Sox players who spent a combined 65 years with the team as players. Their careers represent Red Sox teams from each of the past five decades, bringing very different experiences and points of view to NESN’s broadcast.

New Color Analyst

MAXX Client and former Red Sox player Carlos Pena will be joining NESN this season to serve as color analyst for select games during both Spring Training and the regular season. He will continue to serve as a studio analyst for MLB Network.

Pena has served as a studio analyst at MLB Network since 2014 and as a fill-in color analyst on NESN during the 2017 season. The Haverhill, Mass., high school graduate played college baseball at Northeastern University. He was a first-round draft pick in 1998 and played 14 seasons in the major leagues, hitting 286 career home runs.