Randy Winn Retires After 13 Seasons Of Playoff-Less Baseball

For a while until he retired, Winn was the active leader in games played without a playoff appearance. This is how close he came:↵2003: Mariners, 93-69, missed by two games

2009: Giants, 88-74, missed by four games

2010: Yankees, released early in season

2010: Cardinals, 86-76, missed by five games

↵The ’03 Mariners led their division into late August. The ’10 Yankees made the playoffs. The ’10 Cardinals led their division in the middle of August. And Winn was a Giant the year before they won the Series.

Performance-wise, Winn’s career was long but not especially exceptional. He managed a career line of .284/.343/.416 over nearly 7,000 trips to the plate, with 110 home runs and 863 runs scored. He ranks 221st all-time in doubles and 98th all-time in putouts as an outfielder, and this paragraph I think says a lot about what Winn was as a player. He was durable, and he was reliable, but he was never the true star of a team.