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Todd Frazier is Hanging up His Cleats and Cap
Todd Frazier, a two-time All-Star third baseman who played with the Yankees and Mets during his 11-year MLB career, announced his retirement from the game on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at the age of 36.
"Time to hang 'em up," Frazier tweeted Tuesday.
In a phone interview on Monday with the
NY Post, Frazier added, "It's been my love my whole life."
According to a post on facebook, since he was five years old, baseball has been his entire life. Todd says he wishes he could tell that boy that the voyage would be unlike anything he could have imagined.
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Frazier's first home run was on Field 6 at Toms River East Little League in Toms River, and he still remembers it. It was the coolest moment at the time. His team won the Little League World Series a few years later, and his life was never the same in the best conceivable manner.
He was 12 when he led the Toms River East American team to the Little League World Series championship in August 1998. In the title game, he went 4-for-4 with a leadoff home run and was the winning pitcher for Toms River, who defeated a team from Kashima, Japan, 12-9.
Frazier was a first-round draft pick of the Cincinnati Reds in 2007 after playing at Toms River South High School and Rutgers University. He hit for the Reds, White Sox, Rangers, Pirates, Yankees, and Mets in 1,244 games in the majors. 218 home runs in 241 at-bats.
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Last offseason, he signed with the Pirates and appeared in 13 games before being released in March.
Frazier's stint in the major leagues came to an end with that, but it wasn't the end of his playing career. He was one of a select group of seasoned athletes that competed for the United States in the Tokyo Olympics last summer, capturing a Silver Medal.
Frazier told the New York Post that he wouldn't rule out returning to the game in some capacity at some point in the future, but for now, he's looking forward to spending more time with his family, which includes his wife, Jackie, son Blake (8), daughter Kylie (6), and son Grant (3), as well as coaching Blake in baseball, flag football, and basketball.
