First baseman Anthony Rizzo officially opted retired of his declaration with the New York Yankees connected Monday night, according to ESPN's Jesse Rogers and aggregate reports.
It was an expected determination successful a woody that would person paid him $16 cardinal adjacent season. Now, Rizzo enters escaped bureau looking to unafraid a caller woody coming disconnected a play successful which helium had 32 location runs and 75 RBIs.
But the 33-year-old seasoned deed conscionable .224, and was among a big of Yankees who did not deed for mean during a play that included an American League East title. New York outlasted the Cleveland Guardians successful the AL Division Series earlier losing to the Houston Astros successful the title series.
Rizzo had a coagulated postseason for New York, hitting .276 with 2 location runs and 8 RBIs. But helium besides had 8 strikeouts successful 29 at-bats.
After the Yankees were eliminated, Rizzo was noncommittal astir overmuch of thing different than decisions volition beryllium made implicit time.
"At this point, I'll beryllium down my woman and I'll beryllium down my agents and we'll speech astir each that," helium said. "I've told [the Yankees] since signing the deal, we're not going to speech astir it until aft the season. Now successful the adjacent fewer weeks, it's clip to speech astir it."
Rizzo signed a two-year, $32 cardinal woody with the Yankees, but due to the fact that Year 2 featured a subordinate option, the opt-out had been expected.
But you tin number Yankees manager Aaron Boone among those who'd similar the archetypal baseman backmost with the club. Speaking to ESPN Radio earlier this month, Boone spoke glowingly of Rizzo, some connected and disconnected the field.
"He's been everything we could person hoped for," Boone said. "He's been an astonishing idiosyncratic successful our clubhouse. An astonishing teammate, an astonishing leader, precise productive connected the field. I deliberation precise overmuch chopped retired to play for our team, for the Yankees. I deliberation helium handles each that goes with playing present arsenic 1 of the premium players and leaders truthful well. So yeah, I would emotion to person him back, of course."
The Yankees person respective different free-agent decisions awaiting them, namely the Aaron Judge situation. Judge acceptable an AL grounds with 62 homers during a season-long contention that captivated the shot satellite each summer. And helium besides posted AL-best figures successful RBIs (131), runs (133), walks (111), on-base percent (.425) and slugging percent (.686).
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