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Tim Anderson’s major-league career is over. The former American League batting champion announced on a Zoom with reporters that he's already played his final MLB game at age 33.
“I still love the game,” Anderson said, via MLB.com's Scott Merkin. “It just brought too much pain to me so going back to play is not for me, not where I’m at right now.”
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Anderson last appeared in a major-league game in May 2025 before he was designated for assignment by the Los Angeles Angels and ultimately released. His retirement closes a 10-year career that began with the Chicago White Sox in 2016 and included an American League batting title, two All-Star selections and a Silver Slugger Award.
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Anderson signed a minor-league contract with Los Angeles on Feb. 4, 2025, and entered spring training competing for a roster spot. He hit .250/.297/.317 in Cactus League play and earned a place on the Angels' Opening Day roster.
With Zach Neto still rehabbing from surgery, Anderson started the Angels’ first game of the 2025 season at shortstop and batted fifth against the White Sox, the organization that had selected him in the first round of the 2013 draft. Anderson went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts in that game.
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Anderson's opportunity in Anaheim did not last. Neto returned from injury and reclaimed the shortstop position, while the Angels increasingly turned to younger infielders. Anderson was designated for assignment on May 28 and released the following day.
He did not play in the majors again.
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Anderson's decline followed several productive seasons in Chicago. From 2019-22, he hit .318 with 51 home runs and 163 RBIs in 374 games. He won his only batting title in 2019, hitting .335 to lead the American League, and followed that with a .322 average during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.
Anderson made the AL All-Star team in both 2021 and 2022. Those were also his final seasons with a batting average of at least .300.
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In 2024, his lone season with the Miami Marlins, Anderson hit .214/.237/.226 with three extra-base hits in 65 games. It was his second consecutive season with a negative Wins Above Replacement total.
Anderson finishes his career with a .276 batting average, 98 home runs and 350 RBIs in 10 seasons with Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles.
"The game brought a lot of pain, a lot of great moments," he said, via Merkin. "But throughout playing, it definitely was a lot of dark moments. I lost a lot of people. It got to the point where I really couldn’t enjoy being in that setting. It just wasn’t the same."
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