{"id":536781,"date":"2026-01-24T22:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/536781\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T22:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:35:12","slug":"yu-darvish-is-retiring-from-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/536781\/","title":{"rendered":"Yu Darvish is retiring from baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe way my rehab is going now, I am focused on getting right, not on coming back,\u201d he said late last month. \u201cRight now I\u2019m not really thinking too much about the future. Just knowing the way I think, I\u2019m sure I will one day want to throw again. All I\u2019ve thought about in my life is baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Darvish missed half of the 2024 season due to elbow issues and a personal matter but came back to pitch exceptionally well in the playoffs. When he and Padres president of baseball operations A.J. Preller spoke after that season, it was with the understanding that Darvish would likely need elbow surgery at some point. Darvish said he made it clear at that time he was considering \u201cgetting rid of\u201d his contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAs far as leaving lots of money,\u201d Darvish said in a recent interview, \u201cI look at it as that was never mine to begin with, especially considering the money I haven\u2019t physically earned yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe way my rehab is going now, I am focused on getting right, not on coming back,\u201d he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,4024],"class_list":{"0":"post-536781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-baseball-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115952466217179214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536781","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=536781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}