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- Published: Dec. 29, 2025, 10:56 a.m.
World Series champion pitcher Andrew Heaney has retired from MLB aft 12 seasons, he announced successful an Instagram post Sunday.
Heaney, 34, said playing successful MLB “has been a unsocial grant and privilege.”
“But I americium now fresh to return my attraction and power to being a husband, father, family man, and progressive personnel of my community,” Heaney wrote. “I’m retiring from baseball, but I dream to springiness backmost much than I received. Thank you to each of you for nan emotion and support you person fixed me. Y’all cognize who you are.”
Heaney helped lead nan Texas Rangers to winning nan 2023 World Series, earning nan triumph successful Game 4 of nan five-game bid pinch 1 tally allowed successful 5 innings sounded against nan Arizona Diamondbacks.
Most recently, nan southpaw pitcher spent nan 2025 MLB play pinch nan Pittsburgh Pirates and Los Angeles Dodgers. He besides antecedently sounded for nan New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels, and Miami Marlins, nan second of which drafted him successful nan first information of nan 2012 MLB Draft.
“I played pinch galore of nan top players of this procreation and perchance immoderate of nan champion players to ever deterioration a uniform,” Heaney wrote successful his Instagram post. “I’m humbled that I was moreover capable to stock nan section pinch them. I was ne'er an All-Star and decidedly not a Hall of Famer, truthful I tin only dream that I was awesome to each fan, player, coach, and unit personnel I sewage to beryllium around.”
Heaney finishes his MLB profession pinch a 56-72 grounds successful 230 games, including 208 starts, on pinch a 4.57 ERA, 1.28 WHIP and 1,156 strikeouts successful 1,136.2 innings pitched.
Zach Mentz is Trending Sports and News Reporter for cleveland.com / The Plain Dealer. His past acquisition includes clip spent pinch nan Cleveland Guardians, Cannabis Business Times, and North Coast Media. His...
