One of the best contact hitters in recent MLB history is hanging up his spikes.
Jean Segura is retiring from baseball after 12 seasons spread across six different major league teams. The news was announced Wednesday by Segura’s agency, CAA.
Segura’s best big league tenure came with the Philadelphia Phillies from 2019-2022.
In that span, Segura batted .281, slugged 43 homers, stole 34 bases and scored 228 runs.
Segura also spent four years with the Brewers, two with the Mariners and one apiece with the Diamondbacks, Marlins and Angels.
He led the National League in hits (203) with Arizona in 2016. That season was his career-best average of .319.
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Ironically, Segura’s .281 Phillies average also wound up being his overall MLB career batting average, a great mark for an era defined by drops in that statistic league-wide.
Segura’s contact ability was fantastic. He struck out in only 13 percent of his career plate appearances. He liked to swing, though, walking in only about four percent of his trips to the plate.
The infielder, at first a shortstop and eventually a utility guy, last appeared in MLB in 2023 for the Marlins.
In 2024, he played in Triple-A for Norfolk.
His most recent professional action came in the Dominican Winter League this past winter.
Segura was a two-time All-Star, and now he heads off into the baseball sunset.
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