{"id":478549,"date":"2025-12-29T21:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/478549\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:42:12","slug":"pitcher-andrew-heaney-announces-retirement-after-12-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/478549\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitcher Andrew Heaney announces retirement after 12 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 29, 2025, 12:24 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>Pitcher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32672\/andrew-heaney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Heaney<\/a> says he is retiring after 12 major league seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am now ready to return my focus and energy to being a husband, father, family man and active member of my community,&#8221; he wrote Sunday on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Heandog8\/status\/2005398143329075338?s=20\">social media<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m retiring from baseball, but I hope to give back more than I received.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 34-year-old left-hander, Heaney was 56-72 with a 4.57 ERA in 208 starts and 22 relief appearances for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-marlins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami<\/a> (2014), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (2015-21), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Yankees<\/a> (2021), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> (2022, 2025), <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4fa2cf46-09fc-255f-74a1-2a8857b0e671\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tex\/texas-rangers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas<\/a> (2023-24) and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5b8fc9be-4020-52c6-aa28-9a0f2d4383e0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-pirates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pittsburgh<\/a> (2025), which signed him to a $5.25 million, one-year contract in February.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47391685\/mlb-offseason-2025-26-rankings-biggest-christmas-week-trades-signings-yamamoto-mcgwire-zito\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/r1592803_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He was 5-10 with a 5.52 ERA this year in 23 starts and four relief appearances. He was released by the Pirates on Aug. 29, signed with the Dodgers three days later and made one appearance for Los Angeles, allowing three runs over two innings at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-mariners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seattle<\/a> on Sept. 27. He did not pitch in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Heaney started and won Game 4 of the 2023 World Series for Texas, allowing one run over five innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 29, 2025, 12:24 PM ET Pitcher Andrew Heaney says he is retiring after 12 major league seasons.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":478550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-478549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115805038556804172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}