Longtime Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Kyle Hendricks is retiring. Hendricks spent the 2025 season with the Los Angeles Angels, and during the final weeks of the regular season, speculation suggested that the 2016 World Series champion was going to call it a career after the season. While Hendricks initially downplayed retirement talk, the Chicago Sun-Times' Maddie Lee reports that the 35-year-old starting pitcher is, in fact, hanging it up.
In his final season, Hendricks posted an ERA of 4.76 while making 31 starts with the Angels. Given the need for pitching across baseball, Hendricks certainly could have found a job with another team this offseason.