MLB Roundup 12/30: Kyle Seager announces his retirement

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty ImagesKyle Seager announces retirement

It’s been a dead zone on the baseball news landscape, what with that whole lockout shutting transactions down for the foreseeable future. That has cut off most forms of news, but players of course still have the ability to hang up their cleats, which is what happened on Wednesday. In a bit of surprising news, long-time Seattle Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager announced his retirement from baseball.

Although Seager was certainly in the latter half of his career, it didn’t appear the end of said career was imminent last season. In 2021, Seager’s age-33 season, he hit .212/.285/.438 for a 99 wRC+, slugging 35 homers. Only…