{"id":497807,"date":"2025-12-29T17:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/497807\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T17:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:47:14","slug":"pitcher-andrew-heaney-says-he-is-retiring-after-12-major-league-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/497807\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitcher Andrew Heaney says he is retiring after 12 major league seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Pitcher Andrew Heaney says he is retiring after 12 major league seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">\u201cI am now ready to return my focus and energy to being a husband, father, family man and active member of my community,\u201d he wrote Sunday on social media. \u201cI\u2019m retiring from baseball, but I hope to give back more than I received.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">A 34-year-old left-hander, Heaney was 56-72 with a 4.57 ERA in 208 starts and 22 relief appearances for Miami (2014), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/los-angeles-angels-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (2015-21), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/new-york-yankees-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> (2021), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> (2022, 2025), Texas (2023-24) and Pittsburgh (2025), which signed him to a $5.25 million, one-year contract in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">He was 5-10 with a 5.52 ERA this year in 23 starts and four relief appearances. He was released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/pittsburgh-pirates-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pirates<\/a> on Aug. 29, signed with the Dodgers three days later and made one appearance for Los Angeles, allowing three runs over two innings at Seattle on Sept. 27. He did not pitch in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Heaney started and won Game 4 of the 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/world-series\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Series<\/a> for Texas, allowing one run over five innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pitcher Andrew Heaney says he is retiring after 12 major league seasons. \u201cI am now ready to return&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-497807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-angels","12":"tag-laangels","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-angels","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangelesangels","17":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115804113679783396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497807","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=497807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}