Corner infielder Mike Hessman has announced his retirement, J.J. Cooper of
Baseball America notes. Hessman initially tweeted that he was retiring to
become a coach, although that tweet has since been deleted.
Hessman’s retirement is a move that is minor by definition but more
noteworthy than that term suggests — among fans of minor league baseball,
Hessman’s career will be remembered as legendary. No minor league slugger,
in fact, has been more prolific — this season, the 37-year-old Hessman
topped Buzz Arlett’s all-time record with his 433rd career minor league
homer.
The Braves selected Hessman in the 15th all the way back in 1996 — a draft
in which they also took Jason Marquis, Mark DeRosa and Marcus Giles, which
gives a sense of just how long Hessman was in the minors. He reached Triple-A
six years later and made his big-league debut in 2003.
Hessman ultimately played parts of five big-league seasons with the Braves,
Tigers and Mets, although he never collected even 100 plate appearances in a
single year. Instead, he bounced from one organization to the next, hitting
one home run after another for various Triple-A teams and playing in over
2,000 minor league games. The team with which he’ll be most strongly
connected is the Toledo Mud Hens, for whom he played from 2005-2009 and
2014-2015. Hessman hit 23 or more homers in his first six seasons in Toledo
before finishing with 16 last season. Overall, he hit 20 or more minor-league
homers 13 times in his career. He also helped the US baseball team to a
bronze medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and in 2009 he attracted
attention by playing all nine positions in a single game for the Mud Hens.
之前有介绍的小联盟全垒打王Mike Hessman 决定退休转任教练
大联盟成绩只有5年 109G 250PA 42H 14HR 33RBI .188 .272 .422
小联盟19年 2095G 8566PA 1758H 433HR 1207RBI .233 .316 .466
去日本打了1年 48G 142PA 25H 6HR 14RBI .192 .261 .377
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