Ex-Yankees infielder Gio Urshela retires from MLB at 34

MLB infielder Gio Urshela announced connected Monday helium was retiring from the athletics astatine 34.

Urshela played 10 seasons successful the majors, spending astir of his clip with the New York Yankees from 2019-2021. He besides played for the Cleveland Guardians, Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Angels, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves and the Athletics.

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New York Yankees 3rd baseman Gio Urshela is astatine Yankee Stadium successful the Bronx, New York, connected May 19, 2019. (Wendell Cruz/USA TODAY Sports)

"Today is the day. The time you ne'er imagination about, the time you ne'er imagine, the time you ne'er expect to come… but heavy down you cognize that 1 time it volition arrive," helium said successful a connection posted to his Instagram account. "Today is the time to adjacent this section arsenic a nonrecreational player, and this is not a infinitesimal to beryllium sad, it is simply a infinitesimal to beryllium grateful to God for allowing maine to play this beauteous athletics that changed my life.

"Through baseball, I met fantastic people, radical who contributed truthful overmuch to my vocation and helped signifier maine into the idiosyncratic I americium today."

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New York Yankees 3rd baseman Gio Urshela throws to archetypal basal for an retired against Toronto Blue Jays' Bo Bichette during the eighth inning successful Buffalo, N.Y., connected June 16, 2021. (Jeffrey T. Barnes/AP)

He thanked his household and supporters successful his autochthonal Colombia for supporting him passim his career.

"And to each idiosyncratic who, successful 1 mode oregon another, helped marque my vocation overmuch amended – THANK YOU. I volition ever transportation you successful my heart, and the beauteous memories volition enactment with maine forever."

Urshela made his debut with Cleveland successful 2015, playing 81 games for the team.

He past played for the Athletics past season, hitting .238 with 20 RBI successful 59 games. He joined Colombia for the World Baseball Classic.

Athletics 3rd baseman Gio Urshela throws to archetypal basal aft fielding a shot during the eighth inning against the Houston Astros successful Houston connected July 24, 2025. (David J. Phillip/AP)

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He deed .270 for his vocation with 73 location runs and 352 RBI.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.