Outfielder Eric Thames introduced his retirement from skilled baseball over social media on Thursday.
Thames, 36, performed six seasons with 4 groups in Major League Baseball. He additionally competed within the Korean Baseball Organization and Nippon Professional Baseball Organization.
“I’ve been so blessed over these last 14 years to call baseball my job,” Thames wrote on Instagram. “The friendships that will last a lifetime, the memories that I’ll never shut up about (and those that I’m sworn to secrecy to take to my grave).”
Thames was chosen by the Toronto Blue Jays within the seventh spherical of the 2008 MLB Amateur Draft. He made his debut with the Blue Jays in 2011 earlier than being traded to the Seattle Mariners the next season.
Thames labored within the minors earlier than venturing to the KBO in 2014 with the NC Dinos. He was named the league MVP in 2015 and led the league in homers the next season.
Thames signed a three-year, $19 million contract with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2017. He made an immediate influence, recording career-high totals in homers (31) and RBIs (63).
Thames’ ultimate season within the majors got here with the Washington Nationals in 2020, though he performed in simply 41 video games.
He batted .241 with 96 homers and 235 RBIs in 605 profession video games with the Blue Jays, Mariners, Brewers and Nationals.
Thames continued his profession briefly with the Yomiuri Giants in 2021 earlier than he sustained a ruptured Achilles.
–Field Level Media