After 36 games with Seattle's Triple-A affiliate, and 21 years from the time he was drafted, Jayson Werth is calling it a career.
Jayson Werth, who couldn't make it back to the big leagues with the Seattle #Mariners, announces his retirement as @JonHeyman reports.
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) June 27, 2018
Unsigned all offseason, the 39-year-old outfielder signed a minor-league deal with Seattle in March. He was assigned to Class-AAA Tacoma, where he slashed .206/.297/.389 with four home runs and 19 RBI, not enough to prove his way back to the big leagues.
Werth didn't use the word retirement when we spoke by phone Wednesday afternoon, but he made it clear where he stands.
"I'm done … whatever you want to call it," he said.
After more than two decades of running into walls, sliding into bases and hitting clutch homers, that was it. Just like that.
And then he said something that was quite satisfying for him.
"No regrets, man."
Werth played his last game in Nashville on June 08, the last time he would ever step on a professional diamond as a player.
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His last Major League game was played in Washington – a Game 5 defeat to the Cubs in the NLDS on Oct. 12, 2017 – where he spent seven seasons. Between 2011 and 2017, he slashed .263/.355/.433 for a .788 OPS, with 109 homers, 162 doubles and drew 403 walks in 808 games.
Werth walks away with 300 doubles, 22 triples, 229 home runs and 799 RBI, with 132 stolen bases and a career line of .267/.360/.455, and walks off a World Series champion (2009, Phillies).
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