{"id":445759,"date":"2026-02-03T02:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445759\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T02:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:52:09","slug":"avisail-garcia-retiring-after-finishing-career-with-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445759\/","title":{"rendered":"Avisa\u00edl Garc\u00eda retiring after finishing career with Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MIAMI &#8212; <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/30729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Avisa\u00edl Garc\u00eda<\/a> announced his retirement Monday following 13 major league seasons, including three with the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-marlins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami Marlins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Garc\u00eda, 34, did not play again after being designated for assignment by the Marlins on June 4, 2024. The outfielder signed a $53 million, four-year deal as a free agent in December 2021, but couldn&#8217;t match the production he enjoyed with <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mil\/milwaukee-brewers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Milwaukee<\/a> in 2021, when he hit .262 and set career highs with 29 home runs and 86 RBI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Garc\u00eda, a native of Venezuela, had multiple stints on the injured list in his three seasons with the Marlins. He hit .185 in only 37 games in 2023 and .240 in 18 games before his release the following year. He missed the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In announcing his retirement on social media, Garc\u00eda wrote: &#8220;Thank you to God for the blessing of fulfilling my childhood dream &#8212; of playing baseball at its highest level. To my family: my eternal gratitude for your unconditional love, constant support, and sacrifices that made every step of this journey possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Garc\u00eda made his major league debut with Detroit in 2012. He made the AL All-Star team as a member of the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chw\/chicago-white-sox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> in 2017, when he hit .330 with 18 homers and 80 RBI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">For his career, Garc\u00eda batted .263 with 140 home runs and a .733 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI &#8212; Avisa\u00edl Garc\u00eda announced his retirement Monday following 13 major league seasons, including three with the Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[209579,2318,352,209578,2324,363,3,99],"class_list":["post-445759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-209579","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-espn","tag-garcia-avisail","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}