The Rockies’ most prolific player of the last decade is saying goodbye to baseball.
Charlie Blackmon , a four-time All-Star who won the NL batting title in 2017, announced Monday that he’s retiring at the end of this season after spending his entire 14-year MLB career in Denver.
“As a kid you play the game because you love it, like nothing else matters. I still play the game that way, but I don’t feel like a kid anymore,” the 38-year-old bearded outfielder wrote in an Instagram post. “My perspective has changed. I have been blessed to call the city of Denver and the Colorado Rockies my baseball home for the entirety of my career. I am grateful for the support of this organization, my teammates, and most of all Rockies fans.
Blackmon earned his first All-Star nod in his first season as a full-time starter in 2014, but it was his dominant four-year stretch from 2016-19 that he’ll be most remembered for. In 2016, he hit .324 with a .933 OPS, 29 home runs and 82 RBIs, and he followed up with a monster 2017 season that saw him win the batting title with a .331 average while leading the majors in hits , runs , plate appearances , triples and total bases . He registered career-highs of 37 home runs and 104 RBIs that season, finishing fifth in the NL MVP race and leading the Rockies to the playoffs for the first time in his career; they lost to the Diamondbacks in the wild-card game.
Blackmon led Colorado back to the postseason in 2018 after hitting .291 with an .860 OPS, 29 homers and 70 RBIs. They defeated the Cubs in the wild-card game before getting swept by the Brewers in the NLDS in Blackmon’s final postseason appearance, as the Rockies went back to the cellar, bottoming out last year with their first ever 100-loss season. They’re 60-96 entering their final six games this season.His last All-Star season was in 2019, when he hit .314 with a .
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