{"id":57498,"date":"2023-02-01T15:59:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T20:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=57498"},"modified":"2023-02-01T15:59:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T20:59:28","slug":"former-all-star-dexter-fowler-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/02\/01\/former-all-star-dexter-fowler-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Former All-Star Dexter Fowler Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former All-Star outfielder and World Series champion Dexter Fowler announced his retirement via social media Tuesday, ending his 15-year career.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you to the fans. <\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for what\u2019s next. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qZd84zge6Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/qZd84zge6Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; dexfowler.eth (@DexterFowler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DexterFowler\/status\/1620436784999206912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s here. I&#8217;m hanging up my cleats. From an 18-year-old draft pick in Colorado to a &#8220;vet&#8221; in Anaheim &#8211; there are a few things I will never forget.\u201d Fowler <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wrote<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cI&#8217;m mostly proud to look back at my career knowing that I played the game the right way and did my best to make a positive impact beyond the win.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Fowler&#8217;s Career<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After being a top 10 prospect in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/category\/rockies\/\" target=\"_self\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> farm system in the late 2000s, he made his debut in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">September 2008. He would stay in the black and purple through 2013. He finished top 8 in the Rookie of the Year voting in 2009 and was productive in Colorado.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rest of his career was played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/category\/astros\/\" target=\"_self\">Houston Astros<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/category\/cubs\/\" target=\"_self\">Chicago Cubs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/category\/cardinals\/\" target=\"_self\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/category\/angels\/\" target=\"_self\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a>. Of those five teams, Fowler played his best during his two seasons in Chicago. As a Cub, he was an All-Star and World Series Champion for the only time in his career in 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 281 games as a Cub, Fowler hit .261\/.367\/.427 with 30 HR, 94 RBI, 33 stolen bases, and a 115 OPS+. He was a formidable force at the top of the lineup that broke the longest championship drought in professional sports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall for his career, Fowler hit 127 HR, had 1306 hits, maintained a .775 OPS, and stole 149 bases. Over those 14 seasons, \u00a0he was worth 19.4 WAR. While not a Hall of Famer by any metric, he was a solid professional player for over a decade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Legacy<\/h2>\n<p>Being a 14-year veteran of the game comes with the recognition of being able to stay at a professional level in a sport as competitive as baseball. \u00a0Overall, his career will be remembered as more good than bad.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rockies fans will remember him for his ability to hit triples and cover the Coors Field outfield grass. Cubs fans will remember him as the leadoff man who started Game 7 of the 2016 World Series with a bang.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"QjSwKYIWTsZ8o-NpXmBKeA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1310325795\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'QjSwKYIWTsZ8o-NpXmBKeA',sig:'WopW7yrm3YnqJSqnj95rDSdLKmf2ZfSAr8vecBrmi0U=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1310325795',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Players mentioned:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/fowlede01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-02-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dexter Fowler<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former All-Star outfielder and World Series champion Dexter Fowler announced his retirement via social media Tuesday, ending his 15-year career.\u00a0 \u201cIt&#8217;s here. I&#8217;m hanging up my cleats. From an 18-year-old draft pick in Colorado to a &#8220;vet&#8221; in Anaheim &#8211; there are a few things I will never forget.\u201d Fowler wrote. \u201cI&#8217;m mostly proud to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4425,"featured_media":57501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1071,35],"tags":[106,312,246,156,168],"class_list":["post-57498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-mlb","category-news","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-dexter-fowler","tag-houston-astros","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"modified_by":"Troy Brock","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}