Anthony Rendon should leave baseball
Anthony Rendon does not like the game of baseball, that much is true. The fact he still managed to get a massive free-agent contract from an MLB team is hilarious. The fall from grace from being one of the game’s best to its biggest disappointments should be studied. Seemingly with every following season, Rendon reinforces his lack of desire to play the game of baseball.
Rendon made headlines recently for his interview on The Jack Vita Show discussing his career.
“We Gotta Shorten The Season,” Rendon said. “ It’s Too Many Dang Games”
He knew how it would make people feel, and that he may rub people the wrong way. Like the perception of him as a player, Rendon could care less about that. He has some merit in discussing the length of the MLB season—especially the expansion of the postseason bracket to 12 teams instead of 10; 162 games in 187 days can be looked at as excessive. However, the man who has played 200 games in 748 days shouldn’t be bringing that discussion to light. We have to feel for Angels fans since they have to endure their team paying this man $38 million until 2026.
Content creators, media personalities and even former players have chimed in. Former MLB closer Jonathan Papelbon, a former teammate of Rendon, helped paint a picture, taking to X/Twitter to speak on Rendon’s comments.
Times up?
I’ll do Papelbon one better and say Anthony Rendon should just retire. Discuss with the Angels front office about some sort of buyout/payment plan, and Rendon can go live the rest of his life away from baseball. It is such a shame because for someone who doesn’t like baseball Anthony Rendon was a great MLB player for a time.
In his final three seasons with the Washington Nationals from 2017-19, Rendon averaged 143 games per year, a .310 average, 28 home runs, 106 RBIs and 43 doubles–culminating in being the main star on a World Series Nationals team, a team with current-day superstars of the game in Juan Soto and Trea Turner. Since then, this man has only had one productive season with the Angels and that was the shortened 2020 season.
Rendon is entering his age-34 season. His entire Angels tenure has been everything except what the Angels and their fans were hoping for: Still waiting on a full productive season out of the No. 8 highest-paid player in MLB. Not these reports about how much this man doesn’t like the game, missing over 100 games for another season, or his view about the state of the game.
My optimism is that Rendon may play with a chip on his shoulder to salvage what has been an overall underwhelming time with the Angels. But I can also anticipate he’s counting the days until his contract expires.
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