{"id":378428,"date":"2025-12-29T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/378428\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T15:27:09","slug":"former-yankee-andrew-heaney-retires-after-12-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/378428\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Yankee Andrew Heaney retires after 12 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Heaney, who pitched for two World Series-winning teams but was a bust of a trade deadline acquisition for the Yankees in 2021, has retired after 12 MLB seasons, he announced in a social media post Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people don\u2019t get the opportunity to leave home and travel to beautiful places, meet amazing people from so many different backgrounds, all while doing something that they love,\u201d Heaney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/heandog8\/p\/DS0rCLfksb8\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote in his Instagram post<\/a>. \u201cI have. \u2026 I played with many of the greatest players of this generation and potentially some of the best players to ever wear a uniform. I\u2019m humbled that I was even able to share the field with them. I was never an All-Star and definitely not a Hall of Famer, so I can only hope that I was great to each fan, player, coach, and staff member I go to be around.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so thankful for all of the people involved in making my career more successful than I ever dreamed. I will miss the game greatly, but all of my experiences and the lasting relationships have made me a better person. The routine of showing up to the yard every day and working to improve each time out has been a driving force for me the last 14 seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38043175\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/reliever-andrew-heaney-33-los-112311432.jpg\" alt=\"Reliever Andrew Heaney of the Los Angeles Dodgers delivers a pitch during the fifth inning.\" class=\"wp-image-38043175\"  \/>Andrew Heaney throws a pitch during the Dodgers\u2019 Sept. 27 game. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Heaney debuted with the Marlins \u2014 the organization that selected him in the first round of the 2012 MLB Draft \u2014 in 2014, and that offseason, Miami dealt him to the Dodgers before Heaney was redirected to the Angels later that same day.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next seven years in Los Angeles, he collected a 4.51 ERA across 11 starts, and ahead of the trade deadline in 2021, the Yankees acquired him in exchange for a pair of minor-leagues to boost their rotation depth.<\/p>\n<p>That backfired, though.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.38753388;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38043177\" width=\"819\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38-reacts-mound-giving-two-18467155.jpg\" alt=\"Yankees pitcher Andrew Heaney #38 reacts on the mound after giving up two home runs, with a catcher and coach.\" class=\"wp-image-38043177\"  \/>Andrew Heaney reacts after giving up two homers during his August 2021 appearance. for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p>Heaney lost his rotation spot after just five starts and a 6.23 ERA, getting designated for assignment just over two months and seven cameos later before the postseason even began.<\/p>\n<p>But the left-hander resurrected his career with the Dodgers the following season and then with the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, he won Game 4 of the World Series and paired that with a 31-start campaign \u2014 his first time hitting at least 30 starts since 2018 \u2014 in 2024 with Texas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of ups and downs in my career,\u201d Heaney told reporters after his Game 4 win that year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/andrew-heaney-world-series-game-4-2023\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to MLB.com<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve been on a bunch of different teams and never had this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stumbled through most of last season, though, and collected a 5.39 ERA across 23 starts and 26 appearances with the Pirates before getting designated for assignment in August.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers inked him to a minor-league deal days later, but Heaney appeared in just one MLB game \u2014 an innocuous two-inning stint Sept. 27 where he allowed three runs against the Mariners \u2014 and wasn\u2019t on any of the postseason rosters that produced Los Angeles\u2019 second consecutive World Series title.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGo beyond the box score with the Bombers\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Yankees by Greg Joyce, exclusively on Sports+.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am now ready to return my focus and energy to being a husband, father, family man, and active member of my community,\u201d Heaney wrote in his Instagram post. \u201cI\u2019m retiring from baseball, but I hope to give back more than I received. Thank you to all of you for the love and support you have given me. Y\u2019all know who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Heaney, who pitched for two World Series-winning teams but was a bust of a trade deadline acquisition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[57065,64,63,591,2704,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-378428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-andrew-heaney","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}