Brian Dozier Announces Retirement

[Melissa]

Another thing that comes to mind with Dozier's retirement is that his playing arc illustrates further why teams are shying away from long-term contracts once players are past their arbitration years. As stated in another thread, teams are "paying for projection, not for past performance."

 

Personally, I hope that the new agreement will give greater monetary awards to the younger players, when they are actually contributing at or near their peak.

[DocBauer]

I doubt it... in fact, he said he was hoping to just quietly retired without anyone really knowing, but Dustin put this press conference together and I think it's great.

 

And to be cliche', that sounds so much like him. But it would be a really nice gesture on the part of the FO to approach him with this.