Today, baseball’s last current connection to the 2000 World Series champion Yankees was quietly severed. Lefty reliever Randy Choate told WFAN’s Sweeny Murti that he was officially calling it a career, 16 years after pitching in the playoffs at age 25 for the last team to win a third straight title.
Choate was stuck in Triple-A last year after playing in 2015 with the Cardinals, but he was the last active player from the 2000 Yankees following Derek Jeter’s retirement. It’s somewhat amusing that out of all the terrific players on that roster, a random relief pitcher survived the longest, but it’s also not surprising.