Former Cy Young-winning pitcher Jake Arrieta has announced his retirement from baseball
The right-hander signed a three-year, $70 million deal with the Phillies ahead of the 2018 season, but failed to recapture the success from his Chicago days. Arrieta won each of his starts in the 2016 World Series, allowing just three runs with 15 strikeouts across 11 1/3 innings.
Arrieta said that while his body still feels good, his arm doesn’t have the same firepower that it once had to continue his career. “I was at a point where I was doing everything I possibly could to make things work,” Arrieta said. “Unfortunately, I came to this realization around the ’19 season that, man, my body feels amazing. But the shoulder, the old whip, it doesn’t rotate the way it used to. And whether I like it or not, that’s just kind of where things were going.”
While he wishes he could have ended his career with the Cubs, Arrieta seemed content with calling it a career now at age 36. “But we’re here now, it’s all good. I don’t regret anything. Chicago’s my city, it always will be,” Arrieta said. “But would I have liked it to go a little bit better? Sure, of course. I would have liked to see it through last year, with the boys all year. But hey, man, I had a . What are you gonna do? It’s the way it goes.”
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