Got some bad news and some good news about Amy Gutierrez, the in-game reporter for the San Francisco Giants and also a lecturer at SSU where she teaches in the Media Communications department.
Bad news is that NBC Sports Bay Area did not renew her expiring contract. The good news is that the Giants baseball organization picked her up in free agency and has signed Gutierrez to her new role as the Giants multimedia producer and reporter.
Gutierrez spent 13 years with NBC Sports Bay Area as their in-game reporter where she worked with legendary broadcast duo Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper . She would give updates about giants players and talk about giants community events while interviewing players pre and post game.
The news of her expiring contract came out in March. NBC Sports Bay Area had to make budget cuts and informed Guiterrez that her contract would not be renewed, which led the Giants to bring her onto the team. Gutierrez made a post via Instagram and Twitter to inform her fans about her new career move.
She said, “[My] new job entails continuing my reporting duties for the team such as interviewing players and delivering team updates, but will be on Giants social platforms. A new element will be acting as a team ambassador, hosting events for various departments and helping to brand the Giants in the Community.”
Many fans were shocked to find out that NBC Bay Area Sports let Gutierrez go. But Gutierrez wanted to assure the fans that they will still see her at 24 Willie Mays Plaza, where Oracle Park is located right beside Mcvoy cove. Fans can go to the Giants twitter to see Guiterrez give updates about the ball club.
In a statement, Team president and CEO Larry Baer said, “…for two decades, Amy has served as a key link between our fans and the Giants through her exceptional work.”
Gutierrez reported for all three of the Giants World Series wins this past decade: 2010, 2012, and 2014. She has been with the Giants through the bad and the good always giving her best to the Giants fans.
Gutierrez was there for Buster Posey horrific ankle injury and was at the ballpark when Travis Ishkawaw hit a three run walk off home run that sent the Giants to the 2014 World Series.
While Gutierrez is starting a new job, it is with a familiar friend in the San Francisco Giants ball club which has her excited for the opportunity. “I did the same thing for 13 seasons. It’s fun to shake it up and try something new, but it’s also nice I get to do it with people I know and have worked with for years. The sense of a familiar surrounding made it easier to make the leap into a new chapter of my career.”
On top of Gutierrez’s new gig with the giants she is also a lecturer at SSU where she teaches in the Media Communications department. She always had a special connection with SSU where her mother went to school. Gutierrez teaches a public speaking class and a sports boot camp class at SSU.
Gutierrez also has a podcast with UCSF health and is launching a Instagram live show called ‘GCast’ where she interviews a special guest each week. Gutierrez has to juggle all of these jobs and activities while also being a wife and also a mother of two children.
“It’s like eating an ice cream cone in the middle of the summer and one side starts to drip so you clean that up just in time for another side of the cone to start dripping. It’s exhausting at times to keep cleaning up the cone, but it sure does taste good! At the end of the day I ask myself, “did you do the best you could today?”, more often than not, the answer is “yes” and then I can fall asleep for a few hours before it all begins again,” said Guiterrez talking about how she juggles her family and her crazy work schedule.
The San Francisco Giants kicked off their season on April 1, against the Seattle Mariners. While many fans will miss Gutierrez on the sideline talking with Kruk and Kuip, they can be grateful that she is not going anywhere outside the Giants family.
