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Veteran left-handed pitcher Jake Diekman, who played for nine Major League Baseball teams across his 13-year career, has announced his retirement.
He made the announcement Friday in a social media post with the caption, “it’s been a blast.”
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“The time has come for me to retire as a Major League Baseball player. Thank you, God, for this life and being able to live out my wildest dream,” the four-page statement began. “From being in kindergarten and writing down that I wanted to be a baseball player when I grow up, to not even having a high school baseball team and just playing legion in the summer. ‘Making it’ to the big leagues seemed like such a pipe dream.”
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