{"id":18341,"date":"2025-07-25T05:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/jesse-chavez-veteran-mlb-pitcher-announces-his-retirement-at-age-41\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T05:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:12:03","slug":"jesse-chavez-veteran-mlb-pitcher-announces-his-retirement-at-age-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/jesse-chavez-veteran-mlb-pitcher-announces-his-retirement-at-age-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Ch\u00e1vez, veteran MLB pitcher, announces his retirement at age 41"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jesse Chavez Hangs Up the Hooks After 18 Seasons in MLB<\/h2>\n\nRight-handed pitcher Jesse Chavez announced his retirement from professional baseball on Thursday, marking the end of a distinguished 18-season career in the Major Leagues.\n\nChavez, 41 years old, left an indelible mark on the sport, with 657 appearances on the mound representing nine different teams.\n\nHis last appearance was on July 13, playing for the Atlanta Braves against the St. Louis Cardinals.\n\nChavez, known for his versatility and longevity, was traded 11 times throughout his career, a record in MLB history.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cFor now, I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re going to continue,\u201d Chavez commented.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Jesse Chavez on Foul Territory<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe pitcher expressed his desire to focus on the next chapter of his life and help the new generations of young baseball players.\n\nDuring his career, Chavez accumulated a record of 51-66 with an effectiveness of 4.27, in addition to nine saves and 1,044 strikeouts in 1,142 innings pitched.\n\nOriginally from the Los Angeles area, Chavez debuted in 2008 with the Pittsburgh Pirates and also played for the Braves, Royals, Blue Jays, Athletics, Dodgers, Angels, Rangers, and Cubs.\n\nIn the current season, Chavez participated in four games with the Braves, recording a 0-1 record with an ERA of 9.00 in eight innings. He had three different stints with Atlanta this season.\n\nChavez was with the Braves for the first time in 2010 and then returned to the organization in 2021, when he won his only World Series ring.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cThis has been a great journey and much more than I expected from a 42nd round draft pick,\u201d Chavez said. \u201cI was given a gift from the beginning, I understood that, but it was, \u2018How am I going to make it last?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n<cite>Jesse Chavez<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Chavez Hangs Up the Hooks After 18 Seasons in MLB Right-handed pitcher Jesse Chavez announced his retirement from professional baseball on Thursday, marking the end of a distinguished 18-season career in the Major Leagues. Chavez, 41 years old, left an indelible mark on the sport, with 657 appearances on the mound representing nine different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[747,5430,344,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-18341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-braves","9":"tag-jesse-chavez","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-retirement"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}