Ex-Red Sox Homegrown Talent, All-Star, Retires After 14-Season Career
A former homegrown talent of the Boston Red Sox announced his retirement after a long and largely successful career in baseball.
Veteran shortstop Jed Lowrie posted a long message on Instagram to thank the organizations and fans that supported him throughout a career that spanned across three decades.
The 38-year-old was drafted in the first round of the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft by the Red Sox and instantly became one of the more prominent players in the farm system.
Lowrie hit .253 with 81 extra-base hits, 19 home runs, 117 RBIs and a .732 OPS in 256 games across four seasons with Boston to kickstart his career. The switch-hitting middle infielder missed large chunks of time with the Red Sox, a trend that would, unfortunately, follow him throughout his career.
Lowrie would go on to make two stints with the Houston Astros and Oakland Athletics and spent a total of nine games with the New York Mets. The bulk of his career was with the Athletics, which is where he finished after a brutal -- likely eye-opening -- 2022 season that led him to hang up his cleats.
I'm sure the slugger would have liked to end his career in a better fashion but his career on the whole will give him plenty of fond memories to look back on.
Lowrie alluded to looking for "new opportunities in the game" at the end of his announcement. It sounds like the journeyman will consider coaching or possibly some sort of front-office work.
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