Longtime Rockies star Charlie Blackmon announces retirement after 14 MLB seasons
Charlie Blackmon is calling it a career.
The longtime Colorado Rockies outfielder announced on Monday that he will be retiring at the end of the 2024 MLB season.
— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) September 23, 2024
— Charlie Blackmon (@Chuck_Nazty) September 23, 2024
“I have been blessed to call the city of Denver and the Colorado Rockies my baseball home for the entirety of my career,” he said in a statement, in part. “I am grateful for the support of this organization, my teammates and most of all Rockies fans. It is with a thankful heart and a career’s worth of memories that I choose a new path.”
Blackmon spent his entire career with the Rockies, who selected him in the second round of the 2008 amateur draft. The 38-year-old made his debut with the team in 2011 and has been a staple with the franchise ever since.
Blackmon earned four All-Star nods throughout his career and won the National League batting title in 2017, when he carried a .311 batting average while leading the league in hits, runs and triples. The two-time Silver Slugger currently holds a career .292 batting average with 226 home runs and 797 RBI in 1,618 games. He is second in Rockies franchise history in games played, at-bats, runs, hits and doubles. He’s the franchise leader in triples.
Blackmon signed a one-year, $13 million deal to return to the team this season.
The Rockies have six games left in the regular season, starting with a three-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals that kicks off on Tuesday. They hold a 60-96 record, which has them last in the NL West standings, and they will miss the playoffs for a sixth straight season.
