{"id":646905,"date":"2026-03-27T17:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/646905\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:01:14","slug":"former-atlanta-braves-star-jason-heyward-retires-from-mlb-wsb-tv-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/646905\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Atlanta Braves star Jason Heyward retires from MLB \u2013 WSB-TV Channel 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">ATLANTA \u2014 Jason Heyward, a metro Atlanta native and former star for the Atlanta Braves, announced his retirement from Major League Baseball on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Heyward played 16 seasons in the majors for the Braves, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros and San Diego Padres. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/smart-tv\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Heyward graduated from Henry County High School. The outfielder started his professional career with the Braves at just 17-years-old. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Heyward created one of the most memorable moments in Braves history when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-IMtEiODbjo\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-IMtEiODbjo\">crushed a 3-run home run in his first at-bat on 2010 Opening Day <\/a>at Turner Field. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The 36-year-old finishes his professional career as a 2010 All Star with the Braves, 2016 World Series champion with the Cubs and a 5-time Gold Glove winner. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wsbtv.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 Jason Heyward, a metro Atlanta native and former star for the Atlanta Braves, announced his retirement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-646905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlantabraves","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-braves","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646905","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=646905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}