After playing for six Major League teams and returning to the St. Louis Cardinals, the team with which he debuted in 2011, pitcher Lance Lynn decided to announce his retirement from professional baseball, and he did so in a peculiar but endearing way, on his wife Dymin’s podcast.
The “Dymin in the Rough” podcast served Lynn as a forum to draw the curtain on 13 seasons in which he became a two-time All-Star and won a World Series with the Cardinals in 2011
The veteran pitcher confided in his wife in the first interview after ‘hanging up his glove’: “Baseball season is here and I’m right here on the couch. This is where I’m going to stay… I’m officially retiring from baseball.”
He didn’t find a team that would pay him well
At 37 years old, Lynn is very philosophical about his retirement from active baseball in a season in which he was still looking for a team through free agency: “There’s a couple different things: you start looking – obviously there was interest from some teams – but the money didn’t work out. Now that you look at it: the season started and I’ve really enjoyed not being there,” he said to his wife with a smile.
With the Cardinals, Lynn spent seven seasons, split into two stints, rookie and veteran, and in fact had his last game last season and it was at Busch Stadium, where he came away with the win after pitching six innings and allowing four hits: “We had everybody there… we did everything that day. Retiring a Cardinal in his last major league game at Busch Stadium with the whole family there,” he recalled.
“I don’t miss being there for the start of the season”
Lynn leaves behind a stage in which he added $110 million to his bank account – according to figures from Spotrac – and begins a new one in which he will surely miss the activity, but in which he will enjoy his family life: “It’s a little weird to say, you know, I’m always going to miss the teammates, competing, things like that, but I haven’t missed being there every day or being away from home or anything like that,” Lynn said, to which Dymin jokingly replied: “I knew when you buy a boat, it’s over“.
Read the full article here
