The 2023 MLB season just ended with the Texas Rangers being crowned as World Series champs.
There were numerous individual achievements and we are entering the award season that will recognize them.
The offseason has already begun, too, with option decisions, waiver claims, and other transactions of the like.
Before saying goodbye to the 2023 campaign for good, however, we shall take a minute to recognize the career of three greats.
“The end of the 2023 #MLB season sees the retirements of three long-tenured, well-respected veterans: – 1B/DH Miguel Cabrera – DH/OF Nelson Cruz – RHP Adam Wainwright,” MLB Jersey Numbers tweeted.
The end of the 2023 #MLB season sees the retirements of three long-tenured, well-respected veterans:
– 1B/DH Miguel Cabrera
– DH/OF Nelson Cruz
– RHP Adam Wainwright pic.twitter.com/yZG861XuVP— MLB Jersey Numbers (@NumbersMLB) November 2, 2023
The Detroit Tigers said goodbye to Cabrera, a future Hall of Famer.
He is the only player who has a lifetime .300 average, 500 home runs, 600 doubles, and a Triple Crown.
His place in Cooperstown is all but certain: now, it’s a matter of deciding whether it will be first ballot or even unanimous.
Wainwright was able to reach his 200th career win late in the season.
His Hall of Fame credentials are not that strong, but he is surely a St. Louis Cardinals legend and is universally loved and respected by the whole baseball community.
He completed an amazing career with two World Series titles.
Cruz couldn’t win it all, but he came very close in 2010 and 2011 and retired with 464 home runs even though he got his first full-time gig in MLB when he was almost 30.
He was one of MLB’s premier sluggers in the 2010s decade, and is now saying goodbye after making his debut in 2005.
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