{"id":471456,"date":"2025-12-11T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/471456\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:30:18","slug":"former-rockies-all-star-outfielder-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/471456\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Rockies All-Star outfielder retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Dahl\u2019s career didn\u2019t quite go as hoped but the one-time Colorado Rockies outfielder still earned a trip to an All-Star Game, helped a playoff team and spent seven years in the majors \u2014 on Wednesday, he said goodbye to baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Dahl announced his retirement from baseball on social media <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ddahl21\/status\/1998836151076175992\" rel=\"nofollow\">via a nice video.<\/a> He did not play any pro ball in the 2025 season and his last stint in the major was a short one with Philadelphia in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockies selected Dahl with the 10th overall pick in the 2012 draft, and his talent was evident from the start \u2014 his career was simply derailed by a relentless string of injuries, including a wild play in Double-A which cost him his spleen. That happened in 2015, when it was removed after colliding with an outfield wall. A rib and back injury cost him any time in the majors during 2017. A broken right foot sidelined him for two months in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>But when he was healthy, Dahl was a top-notch hitter.\u00a0His breakout 2019 season earned him a spot on the National League All-Star team, and he recorded a single in the Midsummer Classic. He batted .302 with 15 home runs and 61 RBI in 100 games that year \u2014 a career high \u2014 before a high ankle sprain ended his season in early August. He played parts of four years for the Rockies and 11 years in the team\u2019s system.<\/p>\n<p>Once a top-25 prospect and hoped to be a big bat for the Rockies during their window built around Nolan Arenado, Charlie Blackmon, Trevor Story and the best pitching in franchise history, Dahl went hitless during the 2018 postseason \u2014 a microcosm of the entire team, which saw its offense disappear during its last playoff trip.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Baseball has been my life for as long as I can remember. From being a kid in Alabama chasing a lifelong dream to stepping foot on a big-league field\u2026after 13 seasons and several months to reflect on it, it\u2019s officially time for the next chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, baseball. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ukcWCJfdN9\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ukcWCJfdN9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Dahl (@ddahl21) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddahl21\/status\/1998836151076175992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">December 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dahl went on to play for the Rangers, Padres and Phillies, playing a total of 350 games in the big leagues, almost all of which actually came for the Rockies.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shapalicious\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Follow @Shapalicious<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DenverSports1043\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Subscribe-Banner.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Subscribe-Banner_DS.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/denversports.com\/daily\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DenverSportsEmail-300x250-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DenverSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Dahl\u2019s career didn\u2019t quite go as hoped but the one-time Colorado Rockies outfielder still earned a trip&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,5882,52,4316,4,168,5881],"class_list":{"0":"post-471456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-denvers-sports-station-104-3-the-fan","11":"tag-colorado-rockies","12":"tag-coloradorockies","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-rockies","15":"tag-sports-radio-104-3-the-fan-denver"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}