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Ryan Sherriff was active in baseball as recently as a year ago, pitching professionally in Mexico. The five-year MLB veteran, whose last major league appearance came with the Boston Red Sox in 2023, was on a mound. But his days of pitching professionally were numbered.
In a heartfelt post to his Substack page on June 29, Sherriff revealed his decision to retire was effectively made for him.
“My arm and my mentality couldn’t keep up and I knew it,” Sherriff wrote. “I knew it in a way I hadn’t let myself know it before. It was time.”
MORE: Red Sox pitching prospect suddenly retires at 24
Sherriff, 36, has been out of baseball this year and recently began blogging about his experiences in the game. He’ll finish his professional career with a 3-2 record, 3.53 ERA (121 ERA+) and two saves in 49 games with the St. Louis Cardinals (2017-18), Tampa Bay Rays (2020-21) and Red Sox (2023).
A left-handed reliever, Sherriff tossed two scoreless innings for the Rays in the 2020 World Series. His one-inning appearances in Games 3 and 5 against the Los Angeles Dodgers were the only postseason appearances of his career.
MORE: Red Sox veteran issues warning to teammates after Blue Jays sweep
Sherriff spent 13 seasons in professional baseball in all. He was released from his minor league contract with the Dodgers in August 2023, after his final two appearances in affiliated baseball with the Oklahoma City Comets.
Sherriff attempted a comeback in the 2024-25 Dominican Winter League, and spent a month with Leones de Yucatan in the Mexican League last year, before calling it quits.
MORE: Former Mets coach Eric Chavez slams David Stearns in rant
In a powerful passage, Sherriff recounted how the Red Sox broke the news to him in spring training 2023 that they were reassigning him: “The GM, the manager, the pitching coach. All in the room. I sit down and there’s complete silence. Nobody says anything. Then the GM breaks the ice — they’re sending me down to minor league camp. I looked around the room. Alex Cora — the manager — put his head down and said something like, ‘Yeah, I got nothing.‘
“That stuck with me. Not in a bad way toward Alex. But that moment — that silence, that head drop — left a sour taste in my mouth that never really went away.”
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In a heartfelt post to his Substack page on June 29, Sherriff revealed his decision to retire was effectively made for him.
“My arm and my mentality couldn’t keep up and I knew it,” Sherriff wrote. “I knew it in a way I hadn’t let myself know it before. It was time.”
MORE: Red Sox pitching prospect suddenly retires at 24
Sherriff, 36, has been out of baseball this year and recently began blogging about his experiences in the game. He’ll finish his professional career with a 3-2 record, 3.53 ERA (121 ERA+) and two saves in 49 games with the St. Louis Cardinals (2017-18), Tampa Bay Rays (2020-21) and Red Sox (2023).
A left-handed reliever, Sherriff tossed two scoreless innings for the Rays in the 2020 World Series. His one-inning appearances in Games 3 and 5 against the Los Angeles Dodgers were the only postseason appearances of his career.
MORE: Red Sox veteran issues warning to teammates after Blue Jays sweep
Sherriff spent 13 seasons in professional baseball in all. He was released from his minor league contract with the Dodgers in August 2023, after his final two appearances in affiliated baseball with the Oklahoma City Comets.
Sherriff attempted a comeback in the 2024-25 Dominican Winter League, and spent a month with Leones de Yucatan in the Mexican League last year, before calling it quits.
MORE: Former Mets coach Eric Chavez slams David Stearns in rant
In a powerful passage, Sherriff recounted how the Red Sox broke the news to him in spring training 2023 that they were reassigning him: “The GM, the manager, the pitching coach. All in the room. I sit down and there’s complete silence. Nobody says anything. Then the GM breaks the ice — they’re sending me down to minor league camp. I looked around the room. Alex Cora — the manager — put his head down and said something like, ‘Yeah, I got nothing.‘
“That stuck with me. Not in a bad way toward Alex. But that moment — that silence, that head drop — left a sour taste in my mouth that never really went away.”
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