{"id":551642,"date":"2026-02-03T04:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/551642\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:37:14","slug":"white-sox-former-all-star-retires-after-spending-6-of-13-mlb-seasons-in-chicago-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/551642\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox former All Star retires after spending 6 of 13 MLB seasons in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/chicago-white-sox\/news\/white-sox-former-all-star-retires-spending-6-13-mlb-seasons-chicago\/854aaab739b8aea90a0115a1?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:White Sox former All Star retires after spending 6 of 13 MLB seasons in Chicago;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">White Sox former All Star retires after spending 6 of 13 MLB seasons in Chicago<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A long major league career that peaked in Chicago officially ended recently.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Avisail Garcia, who made an All-Star Game with the White Sox, has announced his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia spent six of his 13 MLB seasons with the White Sox after breaking through initially with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/detroit-tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Tigers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Detroit Tigers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to God for the blessing of fulfilling my childhood dream\u2014of playing baseball at its highest level,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DURYQ5-EdG-\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Garcia wrote on Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Garcia wrote on Instagram<\/a>\u00a0as part of his announcement.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/cleveland-guardians\/news\/how-guardians-jose-ramirez-pace-cleveland-derek-jeter\/4f853a182bc8cfe42b7f0aa7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:How Jose Ramirez is on pace to become Cleveland&#039;s Derek Jeter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">How Jose Ramirez is on pace to become Cleveland&#8217;s Derek Jeter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>All told, Garcia played in just 53 games with the Tigers before being sent to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/chicago-white-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago White Sox;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago White Sox<\/a>, for whom he played six productive seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia moved in a three-team trade to the White Sox that included Jake Peavy going to the Red Sox as the biggest other part of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The physically impressive 6-foot-4 outfielder made the 2017 All-Star Game in a season he hit a career-high .330 with 27 doubles, 18 homers and 80 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>In his six years with the White Sox, Garcia hit 74 home runs, batted .271 and drove in 289 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He then played for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/tampa-bay-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tampa Bay Rays;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/milwaukee-brewers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Milwaukee Brewers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/miami-marlins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miami Marlins;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Miami Marlins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\/news\/giants-luis-arraez-mlb-perfect-misfit-2026\/4a6c3688716a01c11edf6735\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Luis Arraez is MLB&#039;s perfect misfit in 2026;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Luis Arraez is MLB&#8217;s perfect misfit in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Garcia finished his career as a .263 hitter. He had 154 doubles, 17 triples, 140 home runs, 524 RBI and 51 stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>His last 18 MLB games came with the Marlins in 2024, and he didn&#8217;t play any baseball in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Now, his stepping away from the game is official at age 34.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White Sox former All Star retires after spending 6 of 13 MLB seasons in Chicago originally appeared on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[35397,5,138,49,2561,135,6954,53,17347,865,85,58,59,4,89,68,396,2562],"class_list":["post-551642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-avisail-garcia","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-cleveland","tag-derek-jeter","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-jake-peavy","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-luis-arraez","tag-miami-marlins","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-red-sox","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116004850612201010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551642","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=551642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}