Magglio Ordonez, 15-year veteran and six-time All-Star, is making his retirement official according to Jason Beck. Ordonez was hoping to latch on with another team this offseason, but he never got an offer to his liking. The Detroit Tigers will hold a ceremony for him this Sunday.
Magglio Ordonez Announcing Retirement, Tigers Holding Ceremony
Magglio Ordonez is retiring from baseball after 15 seasons with the Tigers and White Sox.
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The Tigers will honor Ordonez in a ceremony prior to Sunday’s series finale against the Yankees at Comerica Park. They’ll do so at 12:40pm ET on the same field where he homered off Oakland’s Huston Street in Game 4 of the 2006 AL Championship Series to send the Tigers to the World Series, one of the biggest hits in the Tigers’ illustrious history.
Ordonez came up with the Chicago White Sox, with whom he played for eight seasons, hitting 187 of his career 294 home runs. But Ordonez might be remembered more for his time in Detroit, where his arrival ushered in the new era of Tigers baseball, and where he took the most memorable swing for the Tigers since they won the World Series in 1984.
That’s the kind of swing that makes a five year, $75-million contract worth every penny, and it’s why Ordonez is announcing his retirement in Detroit rather than Chicago. The Hall of Very Good will have a new member in five years.
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