“I’m done,” Darin Erstad said. “I had my time. I always said, ‘When I’m done, I’m done.’ … I’m good.”
The three-time Gold Glove winner Erstad is now chasing his kids rather than baseballs.
“I couldn’t be much happier,” he said from his home in Lincoln, Neb. “I got to live a dream playing baseball for 14 years, now I’m getting to live the other side and it’s a blast.”
Erstad retires with a career .282/.336/.407 in 14 seasons with the Angels, White Sox and Astros. The pinnacle of his long career was catching the final out in 2002 of the World Series that clinched the Los Angeles Angels only World Championship. The Marlins considered picking up Erstad this off-season, but did not go through with it.
Information from Dave Selvig of The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead was used in this article.
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