From "Piazza, one of best hitting catchers in history, retires" (AP/CBSSports.com):
Mike Piazza is retiring from baseball following a 19-season career in which he became one of the top-hitting catchers in history."After discussing my options with my wife, family and agent, I felt it is time to start a new chapter in my life," he said in a statement released by his agent, Dan Lozano. "It has been an amazing journey."
The 39-year-old Piazza was not on a team this season.
Taken by the Los Angeles Dodgers on the 62nd round of the 1988 amateur draft, Piazza became a 12-time All-Star, making the NL team 10 consecutive times starting in 1993.
He finished with a .308 career average, 427 home runs and 1,335 RBI for the Dodgers (1992-98), Florida (1998), New York Mets (1998-05), San Diego (2006) and Oakland (2007).
Congrats, Mike! Too bad you'll be entering the Hall of Fame as a Met.
photo by Roberto Borea/AP
10 comments:
Nice Hair.
Love the porn stache too.
Isn't it his choice? Wouldn't he enter as a Dodger?
It was an acrimonious split when he was traded from L.A. He went to the World Series with the Mets. He will choose to enter as a Met.
I bet Tommy gets him to pick the Dodgers. The only thing people will remember of him as a Met is getting his broken bat thrown back at him by a juiced-up Roger Clemens.
Paul LoDuca will enter the horse racing HOF as a Dodger, too.
Will his plaque have the mullet and the 'stache?
Even better, it will be REAL HAIR on the plaque
Like those Gagne GAME OVER T-shirts.
Some comments at Deadspin are not nice:
1)
Also notable for starting trend of Dodger catchers winding up in Queens when L.A. wouldn't pay them/their defensive skills started diminishing.
Russell Martin, you're ours in five years.
2)
He's not gay.
Tommy Lasorda's kid wasn't gay.
No one associated with the Dodgers was ever in anyway gay.
(In fairness, it was pretty obvious that Steve Garvey is not gay).
hate the last one, hate homophobia...who cares whom sleeps with whom?
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