While there’s always a melancholiness to a player’s retirement, Bruce spent 13 seasons in the bigs, hit 319 homers, made three All-Star teams and appeared in the playoffs three times while making more than $100 million. “After the ’20 season, I felt like, listen, this could be wrapping up, this could be — the days are numbered,” Bruce said during his retirement press conference. He is one of seven players to hit at least 30 homers in 2017 and fall out of Major League Baseball by 2021. There were 112 players aged 34 or older in 2019, the most recent year in which a 162-game season was played, including just 51 position players. So far this year, there have been 81 players in their age-34 season or beyond, including just 40 position players.

Source: Forbes May 01, 2021 03:33 UTC