Two-time All-Star Todd Frazier announces retirement after 11 seasons

Frazier first gained fame as a star of the 1998 Little League World Series with the champion-Toms River, N.J., squad as a 12-year-old. Nine years later, Frazier was selected in the first round of the 2007 MLB June Amateur Draft by the Cincinnati Reds. He played 41 games for the Reds in 2011 before breaking out in 2012.

That season, Frazier recorded 19 home runs, 67 RBIs and career highs in triples (six) and on-base plus slugging percentage (.829) and tied what would be his career highs in batting average (.273) and slugging percentage (.498) while finishing third in the NL Rookie of the Year voting. Frazier made his two career All-Star teams in 2014 and 2015, before being traded to the Chicago White Sox in December 2015.

The 36-year-old posted career-bests in home runs (40), RBIs (98) and runs scored (89) during his lone full season in Chicago, before he was traded again — this time to the New York Yankees — in July 2017. After spending the second half of the season in the Bronx, Frazier signed with the crosstown New York Mets in February 2018 and spent the next two years in Queens before signing with the Texas Rangers in January 2020.

Frazier was traded back to the Mets later that year and concluded his career with 13 games played with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2021.

"It’s been my love my whole life," Frazier said, per Greg Joyce of the New York Post. "It’s very hard to let go. Don’t get me wrong, it’s one of the toughest decisions I’ve ever made in my life. But where I’m at in my career and where I’m at in my life, I think it was the right decision. I think it’s time to be that family figure that I’ve always wanted to be."