{"id":809468,"date":"2026-08-10T23:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809468\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T23:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:56:17","slug":"tim-anderson-2-time-all-star-and-former-batting-champ-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809468\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Anderson, 2-time All-Star and former batting champ, retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Shortstop <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33184\/tim-anderson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tim Anderson<\/a>, a two-time All-Star and former batting champion 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\/chw\/chicago-white-sox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago White Sox<\/a>, on Monday announced his retirement after 10 major league seasons, saying the game no longer brought him joy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Definitely a lot of dark moments,&#8221; Anderson told reporters on a Zoom call Monday. &#8220;Got to a point where I couldn&#8217;t enjoy it. &#8230; I still love the game; it just brought too much pain for me. So going back to play is not for me right now in life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Anderson, 33, last appeared in an MLB game for the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> last season, when he hit .205 in 31 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 17th overall pick in the 2013 MLB draft, Anderson played his first eight seasons with the White Sox and batted over .300 for four consecutive years. In 2019, Anderson hit .335 to lead the major leagues, and he was selected to American League All-Star teams in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The White Sox said they will honor him before a game on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Anderson finished his career with a .276 batting average with 98 home runs, 350 RBIs and 122 stolen bases in 991 games with the White Sox, <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> and Angels. He won a Silver Slugger award in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shortstop Tim Anderson, a two-time All-Star and former batting champion with the Chicago White Sox, on Monday announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[343552,343551,2318,352,2322,2324,363,3,99],"class_list":["post-809468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-343552","tag-anderson-tim","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-espn","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809468","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=809468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}