{"id":7727,"date":"2022-04-05T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T19:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=7727"},"modified":"2022-04-05T15:04:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T19:04:40","slug":"time-to-hang-em-up-todd-frazier-announces-retirement-from-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2022\/04\/time-to-hang-em-up-todd-frazier-announces-retirement-from-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Time to Hang &#8216;Em Up:&#8217; Todd Frazier Announces Retirement From Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3057\" style=\"width: 723px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/todd_frazier_mets.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"Todd Frazier (Photo: SNY)\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"Todd Frazier (Photo: SNY)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3057\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3057\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/todd_frazier_mets.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Frazier (Photo: SNY)\" width=\"713\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/todd_frazier_mets.jpg 713w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/todd_frazier_mets-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/todd_frazier_mets-588x420.jpg 588w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/todd_frazier_mets-640x457.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/todd_frazier_mets-681x486.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Todd Frazier (Photo: SNY)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A baseball career that began with a Little League championship that captivated not only Toms River, but the nation, and would ultimately span 11 years in the major leagues, is complete for Todd Frazier.<\/p>\n<p>Word that Frazier, 36, was retiring from the game initially came from the New York Post, in which Toms River\u2019s favorite son told reporter Greg Joyce that he would be <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/05\/todd-frazier-retiring-after-11-year-mlb-career\/\">calling it a career<\/a>. Frazier later confirmed his retirement with a tweet emblazoned with the caption: \u201cTime to hang \u2019em up.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Time to hang \u2018em up. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w501ozMORT\">pic.twitter.com\/w501ozMORT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Todd Frazier (@FlavaFraz21) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlavaFraz21\/status\/1511363576203722760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In The <em>Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/05\/todd-frazier-retiring-after-11-year-mlb-career\/\">column<\/a>, Frazier tells Joyce that baseball has been \u201cmy love, my whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s very hard to let go. Don\u2019t get me wrong, it\u2019s one of the toughest decisions I\u2019ve ever made in my life. But where I\u2019m at in my career and where I\u2019m at in my life, I think it was the right decision. I think it\u2019s time to be that family figure that I\u2019ve always wanted to be.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Frazier\u2019s 11-year tenure in MLB included a breakout debut with the Cincinnati Reds that propelled him to baseball stardom on the major league level. He would eventually move closer to home, with stints with the New York Yankees and Mets. Frazier also played for the Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers and Pittsburgh Pirates during his MLB journey.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier appeared in two All-Star games and won a silver medal in the 2020\/21 Olympic Games in Tokyo. His career batting average will stand at .241, having racked up 218 home-runs and 640 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier told the Post that he began thinking about retirement after his success in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to go out on a high note,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2022\/04\/time-to-hang-em-up-todd-frazier-announces-retirement-from-baseball\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baseball career that began with a Little League championship that captivated not only Toms River, but the nation, and would ultimately span 11 years in the major leagues, is complete for Todd Frazier. Word that Frazier, 36, was retiring from the game initially came from the New York Post, in which Toms River\u2019s favorite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1080,1562,1336,90,324,11],"class_list":["post-7727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toms-river-life","tag-featured","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-retire","tag-todd-frazier","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/todd_frazier_mets.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}