Yankees outfielder, Nick Swisher, did not reach the decision to retire from baseball easily. He agonized over it and, just last year tried to make a comeback with the Yankees. This followed an ill-fated comeback try with the Cleveland Indians but ended with the same results.
Nick Swisher was passed over when the time came to call up a replacement outfielder/first baseman, and the writing began to appear on the wall for Swisher.
Swisher wrote a letter to The Player’s Tribune, the go-to outlet for athletes created by Derek Jeter, in which he lamented:
This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while.