{"id":23266,"date":"2025-09-10T08:24:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23266"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:46:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:46:49","slug":"hanging-up-his-platinum-glove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/hanging-up-his-platinum-glove\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging Up His Platinum Glove"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Former Cub Anthony Rizzo announced his retirement this morning after a fourteen-year career.\u00a0 A three-time All Star, Rizzo spent ten seasons with the Cubs, ranking sixth in franchise history with 242 home runs.\u00a0 He was also a four-time Gold Glove winner, winning Platinum Glove honors in 2016 as the league’s best defender.\u00a0 In 2017, Rizzo was bestowed with the prestigious Roberto Clemente Award.<\/p>\n

Rizzo, originally drafted by the Red Sox when Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer were in their front office, was the duo’s first big acquisition when they reunited in Chicago, acquiring him from the Padres.\u00a0 Beginning the 2012 season in Triple A, he was recalled at the end of June and quickly became a mainstay of the lineup and a crowd favorite.\u00a0 As the Cubs were rebuilding around him, he signed a long-term contract extension in 2013.\u00a0 He cemented his position in Cubs lore by catching the final out of the 2016 World Series, ending the longest championship drought in American professional sports.\u00a0 However, as the Cubs struggled to repeat the team success of that season, Rizzo also struggled in later years, contributing to an offense that has severely regressed since 2016 and was one of the Cubs who refused to get the COVID vaccine, keeping the team below the 85% threshold for the 2021 season.\u00a0 At the trade deadline, he was traded to the Yankees.<\/p>\n

After re-signing with the Yankees after the 2021 season, Rizzo spent three injury-marred seasons in New York, culminating in last fall’s World Series loss to the Dodgers.\u00a0 A free agent following the season, he went unsigned and sat out the 2025 season prior to today’s announcement.\u00a0 He will officially retire as a Cub and join the organization as a team ambassador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Cub Anthony Rizzo announced his retirement this morning after a fourteen-year career.\u00a0 A three-time All Star, Rizzo spent ten seasons with the Cubs, ranking sixth in franchise history with 242 home runs.\u00a0 He was also a four-time Gold Glove winner, winning Platinum Glove honors in 2016 as the league’s best defender.\u00a0 In 2017, Rizzo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6980,2363,8844,120,116,5693,2192,231,12142,258,12143,2193,3417,51],"class_list":["post-23266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-2016-world-series","tag-anthony-rizzo","tag-corona-virus","tag-cubs","tag-dodgers","tag-gold-glove","tag-jed-hoyer","tag-padres","tag-platinum-glove","tag-red-sox","tag-roberto-clemente-award","tag-theo-epstein","tag-world-series","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23268,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23266\/revisions\/23268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}