{"id":6346,"date":"2025-05-15T13:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/tony-kemp-9-mlb-seasons-announces-retirement-astros-cubs-athletics-orioles\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T13:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:46:22","slug":"tony-kemp-9-mlb-seasons-announces-retirement-astros-cubs-athletics-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/tony-kemp-9-mlb-seasons-announces-retirement-astros-cubs-athletics-orioles\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Kemp, 9 MLB seasons, announces retirement: Astros, Cubs, Athletics, Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infielder and second baseman Tony Kemp announced his retirement from professional baseball on Thursday, after nine seasons in the Major Leagues.<\/p>\n\n<p>Kemp, 33, played with the Astros (2016-19), the Cubs (2019), the Athletics (2020-23), and the Orioles (2024).<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Thank you God, for allowing me to be a Major League Baseball player. After 12 years of professional baseball and 9 seasons in the Major Leagues, I have decided to hang up the spikes.<\/p><cite>Tony Kemp<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DJrYaVDxnlA\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Post by @tonykemp6<\/a><\/p>\n\nWith a height of 5 feet 6 inches and 160 pounds, Kemp batted .237 over his career, along with 35 home runs and 184 RBIs in 739 games.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>To the undersized baseball player, I see you. I hear you and I understand you. With all the metrics and data in today&#8217;s baseball game, there is still one measurement they can&#8217;t calculate: your heart. Continue to play the game the right way and respect it. The game will reward you, I promise. Leave no doubt and give it everything you have as if someone were watching you play baseball for the first time. I&#8217;m rooting for you all.<\/p><cite>Tony Kemp<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Kemp was selected by the Astros in the fifth round of the 2013 MLB draft, coming from Vanderbilt.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infielder and second baseman Tony Kemp announced his retirement from professional baseball on Thursday, after nine seasons in the Major Leagues. Kemp, 33, played with the Astros (2016-19), the Cubs (2019), the Athletics (2020-23), and the Orioles (2024). Thank you God, for allowing me to be a Major League Baseball player. After 12 years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[88,344,168,2285],"class_list":{"0":"post-6346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-retirement","11":"tag-tony-kemp"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346","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=6346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}