Tulowitzki, grateful to dwell ‘my dream,’ retires
New York Yankees infielder Troy Tulowitzki introduced his retirement Thursday in a press release launched by means of the crew.
“For so long as I can keep in mind, my dream was to compete on the highest stage as a Main League Baseball participant … to put on an enormous league uniform and play laborious for my teammates and the followers,” Tulowitzki mentioned within the assertion. “I’ll without end be thankful for day by day that I’ve needed to dwell out my dream. It has been an absolute honor.
“I’ll all the time look again with great gratitude for having the privilege of taking part in so long as I did. There is no such thing as a technique to actually specific my gratitude to the followers of Colorado, Toronto and New York. They all the time made my household and I really feel so welcome.”
Tulowitzki performed simply 5 video games this season — his first with the Yankees — earlier than struggling a strained left calf on April three. He missed all of 2018 after having surgical procedure on each heels. He additionally suffered an ankle harm in 2017, taking part in solely 66 video games that season with the Toronto Blue Jays.
The five-time All-Star and two-time Gold Glove shortstop finishes his profession with a .290 batting common with 225 house runs, 1,391 hits, 762 runs and 780 RBIs with the Yankees, Blue Jays and Colorado Rockies.
Of his house runs, 223 got here as a shortstop, which ranks seventh all time on the place.
His greatest season was 2011, when he batted .302 with 30 house runs and 102 RBIs for the Rockies, with whom he broke into the majors in 2006 and was the runner-up for NL Rookie of the Yr.
He spent elements of 10 seasons in Colorado, and he nonetheless ranks among the many franchise’s prime 10 in video games performed (1,048, fifth), runs (660, sixth), hits (1,165, seventh) and residential runs (188, seventh).
“Whereas this chapter is now over, I stay up for persevering with my involvement within the sport that I like … instructing and serving to younger gamers obtain their objectives and desires,” Tulowitzki mentioned within the assertion. “I am saying goodbye to Main League Baseball, however I’ll by no means say goodbye 2 the sport I like.”