Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Ross Stripling has announced plans to enter the media landscape after retiring from the sport of baseball.
Stripling pitched nine years in the MLB, serving as a starter and reliever during his time in the big leagues. He was quite the underdog story back in 2016 when he broke onto the scene.
The righty has never been a pitcher who impressed with his velocity or stuff, but Stripling managed to give the Dodgers five quality years’ worth of pitching, racking up 4.2 bWAR over that span and making 59 starts.
In 2020, the Dodgers traded him to the Toronto Blue Jays, where he would continue to serve as a reliable arm, though he struggled in 2023 and 2024 during stints with the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A’s.
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After his time in Oakland, Stripling called it quits in May of 2025.
“After 13 seasons and full of tremendous pride and gratitude, it’s time to hang up the cleats. I never could have imagined the experiences and memories I’d be a part of. They exceeded every hope that my younger self could have dreamt for my baseball career,” Stripling wrote in his announcement.
Months removed from his announcement, during an appearance on the Deep Left Field podcast, he has unveiled his plans for his post-playing career.
“Believe me, broadcasting, if I’m going to stay in baseball, that’s the avenue I’m going to do,” Stripling told host Mike Wilner.
“But kind of what I already touched on — I’m just not ready to be that busy. I was just so busy for 15 years.”
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This is not the first time that Stripling has expected an interest in entering the media landscape. He started his own podcast back in 2019 — “The Big Swing Podcast.”
“I didn’t expect to get rich, get famous,” Stripling said. “I didn’t expect it to be this thing that would vault my career as a broadcaster. Maybe if I wanted to get into an Orel Hershiser-type role after I’m done playing, this would be good practice.”
As a player with a ton of experience in the majors and breaking through in the modern era of baseball, there is a lot of insight that Stripling could offer.
He is a player who maximized what he could be on the field, and he did so through a great understanding of the sport.
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