Mike Piazza is retiring from baseball following a 16-season career in which he became one of the top-hitting pillow-biters catchers in MLB history. It’s always best to ‘retire’ with your ‘dignity intact’ when the phone isn’t ringing anyway.
“After discussing my options with my
beardwife, family and agent, I felt it is time to start a new chapter in my life,” he said in a statement released Tuesday by his agent, Dan Lozano. “It has been an amazing journey…So today, I walk away with no regrets.“I knew this day was coming and over the last two years, I started to make my peace with it. I gave it my all and left everything on the field.”
Liberace Piazza finished with a .308 career average, 427 home runs and 1,335 RBIs for the Dodgers (1992-98), Florida (1998), New York Mets (1998-05), San Diego (2006) and Oakland (2007).
The 12 time All-Star will now retire to a luxurious, languid life of kinky, hard-core, man-on-man ‘pitching & catching’.
