[Heyman] Nothing official yet but Kyle Hendricks is expected to retire @nypostsports has learned. Won 100th game in 1 season with hometown Angels following 11 years with Cubs including historic World Series winning team in 2016 when he went 16-8 with 2.13 ERA. 105-91, 3.79 ERA lifetime.

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  1. Will be wearing my Hendricks jersey. Farewell, professor. Come to Chicago anytime 🫡

  2. Love Kyle. Welcome back at Wrigley any time. Anyone from 2016. You want an ovation? Get in here legends.

  4. We say this about a lot of players. But I would love to see him back and being part of the organization.

    To be as successful as he was with the velocity he had, it took a lot of time/effort to nail down that control and strategy. His brain can be useful in clubhouse.

  5. If this is true, that man deserves the same opportunity as Rizzo and should retire during one of the first home series next season.

  7. Definitely one of my favorite Cubs. When I was buying a signed ball after the 2016 World Series, it was between him and Bryant and I chose Hendricks.

    He’s in my All-Time Cubs rotation with Maddux, Jenkins, Prior, and Wood.

  9. Started easily the two biggest games in the 2016 playoffs and looked nearly untouchable in both. Made the dodgers look silly and had he not been given a quick hook in game 7, maybe could have kept that game from turning into a heart attack.

    Congrats to Hendricks, cubs legend through and through.

  12. It’d be so fitting for the professor to be in an orgs pitching lab. Not saying it should happen but, c’mon

    Retire well, Kyle

  13. Kyle Hendricks managed to excel in the modern major leagues throwing, at his peak, 90-92 MPH fastballs and forcing weak contact at a time where velocity and strikeouts is everything.

    His change ups were a thing of beauty and he could carve through lineups like a hot knife through butter, even in his roughest years he’d have games where that ability would surface again.

    I’m a later life fan from the UK and with no knowledge or understanding of the game, I grew to love baseball by watching his pitching. He’s in fact the only player jersey I have.

    Sad to see him retire but he’s got a great career to look back on, he’s got his health, a good education and his wife and son. Can’t really ask for more than that.

  14. he and hottovy are super close. it would not surprise anyone if the professor becomes part of the pitching staff

    tommy went to the mound to take the professor out of his last wrigley game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-jOE9MEDLg

    * counsell had planned that, but didn’t tell tommy until right before

    also, tommy caught one of hendo’s last bull pen sessions:

    > The Cubs were in Philadelphia for Hendricks’ midweek bullpen session. Hottovy, saying he could catch Hendricks with his eyes closed, had been joking about catching that session.

    >When Hendricks showed up in the visitors’ bullpen at Citizens Bank Park, Hottovy was there in full catcher’s gear.

    >‘‘Which is a pretty funny thing,’’ Hendricks, now with the Angels, said in a news conference Friday in advance of his scheduled start against his former team Sunday. ‘‘We knew it was going to be the last one. We’ve been together for so long.’’

    >The first pitch whizzed over Hottovy’s head as he whiffed with his outfielder’s glove. He hadn’t been able to break in his left-handed catcher’s mitt in time.

    >‘‘He threw it firm,’’ Hottovy said Friday. ‘‘I think he tried to step on one. But I hadn’t gotten used to the mask, so as soon as it got up high enough, I lost it.’’

    i remember the joke was that karl didn’t really throw hard enough to worry tommy, which is why the “i think he tried to step on one” quote is funny.

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