{"id":8914,"date":"2017-09-12T11:44:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T15:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2017-09-12T11:44:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T15:44:26","slug":"ryan-vogelsong-retire-giant-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2017\/09\/12\/ryan-vogelsong-retire-giant-sunday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Vogelsong to Retire as a San Francisco Giant on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/san-francisco-giants\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> announced on Monday that former Giants pitcher\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/vogelry01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Vogelsong<\/a><\/strong> will retire with the team on Sunday. The former Giants pitcher will take the mound to celebrate the end of his career before Sunday&#8217;s afternoon game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/arizona-diamondbacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Drafted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SFGiants?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SFGiants<\/a> in 1998.<br \/>\nDebuted with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SFGiants?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SFGiants<\/a> in 2000.<br \/>\nRetires with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SFGiants?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SFGiants<\/a> in 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VogelStrong?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#VogelStrong<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForeverGiant?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ForeverGiant<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MyKNCflnoF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/MyKNCflnoF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Francisco Giants (@SFGiants) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFGiants\/status\/907316880074883072\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We will honor Ryan Vogelsong this Sunday, September 17th at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATTPark\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ATTPark<\/a> at the start of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SFGiants?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SFGiants<\/a> vs. Diamondbacks game at 1:05pm<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Francisco Giants (@SFGiants) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFGiants\/status\/907317427955838976\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Ryan Vogelsong to Retire as a San Francisco Giant on Sunday<\/h2>\n<p>San Francisco drafted Vogelsong in the fifth round of the 1998 draft. Vogelsong continued on to have a 19 year career, including 12 years in the major leagues. The 40-year-old spent his time with the Giants and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/pittsburgh-pirates\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> before joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/minnesota-twins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> in 2017. He spent four years seeing time in the minors and spent three years overseas playing in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Vogelsong didn&#8217;t make the Twins big league club and hasn&#8217;t seen any major or minor league time this season. The last time Vogelsong was in the majors was when he was a member of the Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>Vogelsong made his debut with the Giants in 2000 as a 22-year-old and ultimately struggled through half of the 2001 season before being traded to the Pirates in return for pitcher\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/schmija01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Schmidt<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>The Bucs then cut Vogelsong in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>After spending three seasons in the Japanese League, Vogelsong caught the attention of both the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/philadelphia-phillies\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/los-angeles-angels\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> in 2010, but only saw Triple-A action with both teams. This set the stage for an improbable comeback to the team who drafted him in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2010-2011 offseason, Vogelsong returned to the Giants on a minor league deal. Few expected Vogey to make the big league club, but the veteran pitcher exceeded expectations and became a key member of the Giants rotation. Vogelsong dazzled when he came back to the majors, tossing 179 2\/3 innings with a 2.71 ERA, 7.0 K\/9, and a 3.1 BB\/9 while putting himself in Cy Young Award conversations and one All-Star nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Vogelsong became a key piece in the Giants 2012 and 2014 playoff rotations. When all was said and done his second tenure resulted in 792 2\/3 innings, 3.89 ERA, 7.1 K\/9, and 3.1 BB\/9, while capturing two World Series rings.<\/p>\n<p>All told, Vogelsong will finish his career with a 61-75 record, with a career 4.48 ERA, 6.8 K\/9, and 3.6 BB\/9 over 1160 major league innings. What those numbers won&#8217;t show is the 2.92 ERA, with a 29-to-16 K\/BB ratio over the Giants postseason. Although Vogelsong had his ups and downs through the minors and playing in Japan, he will always be a two-time world champion; and he will always be forever giant.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"lyS1VHbjR4ZiSXdYRH9Znw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/487099226\" 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:'lyS1VHbjR4ZiSXdYRH9Znw',sig:'IiZtBq--QycFslCfo2FwFldUltLjdf29BkA_s9aIPqQ=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'487099226',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Giants announced on Monday that former Giants pitcher\u00a0Ryan Vogelsong will retire with the team on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2133,"featured_media":8921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[35,1071,31],"tags":[68,1679,156,174,69,268,231,1678,91],"class_list":["post-8914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-mlb","category-giants","tag-baseball","tag-jason-schmidt","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-ryan-vogelsong","tag-san-francisco-giants"],"modified_by":"John Jackson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914","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\/2133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}