Moving On With Life (2023 Retirements)

G-Fafif · January 4, 2023

Steve Cishek has retired.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/12/steve-cishek-to-retire.htmlhttps://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/12/steve-cishek-to-retire.html

MFS62 · January 31, 2023

NJ.com reports that Darren O'Day has announced his retirement.

https://www.nj.com/yankees/2023/01/ex-yankees-mets-reliever-announces-retirement.htmlhttps://www.nj.com/yankees/2023/01/ex-yankees-mets-reliever-announces-retirement.html

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G-Fafif · January 31, 2023

O'Day's departure, combined with nobody (as yet) taking a flier on Joe Smith and the presumed withdrawal from North of the Border competition by Oliver Perez (he did pitch in the Mexican winter league), indicates no Met from the 2000s (2000-2009) remains active — and that your Longest Ago Met Still Active to start 2023 will be Justin Turner. Behind Pie Man stand, at least in terms of those with confirmed Spring Training dates, Collin McHugh and Jeurys Familia, with Matt Harvey in the free agency gray area after not having pitched in the majors in 2022. Matt threw 70 minor league innings last year when not suspended.

G-Fafif · January 31, 2023

Dexter Fowler, who struck out to send the Mets to the 2015 World Series, bids adieu.

G-Fafif · January 31, 2023

Two relievers recently hung 'em up for good: David Phelps, who launched countless Mission: Impossible puns, and Adam Warren, whose friend's father was briefly a physical rehab center roommate of my father's as my father recovered from brain surgery in 2015. I learned this through small talk with said roommate and wife while waiting for my father to return from a PT session. My father wasn't too happy with this roommate because the guy needed some machine that made steady noise that disturbed my father no end. Fortunately, a change of accommodations was arranged. For the rest of Warren's career, I had to remind myself I didn't actually know him but kind of felt I did.

G-Fafif · February 18, 2023

In case you were waiting on the return of René Rivera, René wants to bring you down easy.

Chad ochoseis · February 18, 2023

Wouldn't it have been easier to list the teams he didn't play for?

Chad ochoseis · February 20, 2023

2B Jason Kipnis, who was to saxophones at Progressive Field what Edwin Diaz is to trumpets at Citi.

https://fox8.com/sports/thank-you-baseball-jason-kipnis-announces-retirement/https://fox8.com/sports/thank-you-baseball-jason-kipnis-announces-retirement/

G-Fafif · March 7, 2023

2015 World Series villain Lorenzo Cain, who does not deserve his own thread, has announced he belongs in this one.

MFS62 · March 7, 2023

These guys are gone, but not forgotten.

Their careers hang on for one more year on somebody's Strat-O-Matic card.

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G-Fafif · March 14, 2023

Jordan Yamamoto has decided if he can't be a Met, he doesn't want to be a baseball player.

G-Fafif · March 16, 2023

Sergio Romo, going out in style.

And now, six years after throwing his last pitch as a Giant and embarking on a free-agent odyssey that took him to the Dodgers and Rays and Marlins and Twins and A's and Mariners and Blue Jays and Monclova in the Mexican League, Romo is ready to call it a career. He's ready to come home.

But first, he's getting ready to pitch again.

The Giants and Romo have agreed to a minor-league contract that will include an invitation to major-league camp. He's scheduled to travel to Arizona on Friday, and pending a physical, he will arrive at Scottsdale Stadium to find a locker with a Giants uniform. He won't be dressing with the coaches and special assistants. He'll be folded into the clubhouse among his new teammates.

If all goes to plan, the Giants will work with Romo to build up his conditioning and arm strength to appear in an exhibition game or two, including the March 27 Bay Bridge exhibition finale against the A's in San Francisco. The 40-year-old right-hander would jog to the mound to the frenetic Banda beat of “El Mechón” one more time, break off a few of his sweeping sliders and bring closure to one of the most remarkable careers in Giants history.

https://theathletic.com/4315269/2023/03/16/san-francisco-giants-sergio-romo-signing/https://theathletic.com/4315269/2023/03/16/san-francisco-giants-sergio-romo-signing/

Frayed Knot · March 16, 2023

That's pretty cool. It's an exhibition game but one in front of the hometown fans where he gets to compete one last time.

Certainly beats the totally ceremonial and utterly meaningless 'one day contract so you can retire as ...' nonsense that the NFL seems to have invented and MLB occasionally copies.

G-Fafif · March 18, 2023

Edgy MD · March 19, 2023

That's a pretty dramatic graphic. It looks like he's announcing a title fight against Tyson Fury or a run at Rob Portman's Senate seat.

G-Fafif · March 23, 2023

Jed Lowrie in more threads than games.

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Fman99 · March 23, 2023

Jed Lowrie in more threads than games.

[tweet] https://twitter.com/susanslusser/status/1638918525648793600[/tweet]

No one who ever experienced the Mets' version of Jed Lowrie would presume he'd be successful at anything besides stealing someone's money.

G-Fafif · May 16, 2023

Anibal Sanchez, who pitched forever, won't anymore.

MFS62 · May 18, 2023

Not sure which thread to put this in, but Ed Hearn received a kidney transplant.

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G-Fafif · September 22, 2023

Adios, Sean Doolittle…

MFS62 · October 13, 2023

SI rerunning the story that Joe Buck has announced he is retiring from broadcasting major league baseball.

He got so many comments when he announced it, he had to explain it again. And SI printed them.

https://www.si.com/mlb/2023/10/12/joe-buck-says-he-wont-call-baseball-for-espnhttps://www.si.com/mlb/2023/10/12/joe-buck-says-he-wont-call-baseball-for-espn

That announcement has been met with unanimous applause on Facebook.

The fact that he should have started in the first place is the subject for another discussion.

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metirish · October 13, 2023

Didn't he announce this a few years ago ?

MFS62 · October 13, 2023

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Didn't he announce this a few years ago ?

MFS62 · October 13, 2023

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Didn't he announce this a few years ago ?

roger_that · October 16, 2023

Edgy MD · October 16, 2023

May's had one of his best seasons, including turning into a regular closer for the first time. That (his retirement) is a surprising decision, but a season like the one they had in Oakland can be a kick in the head.

He also decided to burn owner John Fisher somewhat fiercely on the way out the door.

“Sell the team, dude. I tried to get a ‘Sell' shirt. It didn't get here fast enough. Sell it, man. Let someone who actually, like, takes pride in the things they own own something. There's actually people who give a shit about the game. Let them do it. Take mommy and daddy's money somewhere else, dork.”

“If you're going to be a greedy fuck, own it. There's nothing weaker than being afraid of cameras. … Do what you're going to do, bro. Whatever, you're a billionaire, they exist, you guys have all this power — you shouldn't have any because you haven't earned any of it, but anyway, whatever.”

“It is what it is. Reality is you got handed everything you have. And now, you're too soft to take any responsibility for anything you're doing.”