February 28, 2008

Green Retires

Mark Hale at The New York Post writes about Shawn Green and his retirement:


The right fielder, who played with the New York Mets for the last year and a half and spent parts of 15 seasons in the majors, told The Post yesterday that he has retired.

"I had planned on retiring at the end of this contract," the 35-year-old Green said yesterday in a phone conversation. "If something where I could live at home popped up, then I would have had to take that under consideration. But I still don't know what I would have done."

That decision never really had to be made. The affable Green, a former member of the 30-30 club who once smashed four homers in one game, wrapped up his tenure with the Mets last season. He said yesterday that a bunch of teams then showed interest in him, but he indicated that he simply wasn't willing to be that far from his California home.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

good luck in life green and thank you for playing your hart out in september

Marc said...

I made a tearful tribute post concerning Shawn Green at http://metsbaseball.tumblr.com/post/27659462