Ex-New York Mets Bust Officially Retires From Baseball

This ex-Mets bust is officially calling it quits on his career.

The end of a career.

Ex-Mets bust Jed Lowrie is officially retiring from baseball, as he announced on Thursday.

Lowrie signed a two-year, $20 million deal with the Mets prior to the 2019 season. He suffered a knee sprain in Spring Training, which knocked him out for almost all of his first campaign in Queens. During that season, he did not appear in the field, accumulating seven at-bats with one walk.

In the 2019-2020 offseason, Lowrie wanted to get knee surgery, but the Mets wouldn't allow him to do so, as he told Peter Gammons of The Athletic. Lowrie ultimately sat out of the 2020 Covid-shortened season, which was the last year of his contract with the Mets.

“I missed playing so much, it was very difficult,” Lowrie told Gammons in 2021. “I would love to play two more years, then perhaps work in the business. It’s been my life for a long time, from Stanford to 14 seasons in the major leagues.”

Lowrie returned to the Oakland Athletics, where he spent the past two seasons before calling it quits. 

Lowrie spent a total of eight seasons with the A's across two different stints. He also played for the Boston Red Sox and Houston Astros during his 14-year career.

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