For most players in Major League Baseball, their time for retirement comes closer as they approach the age of 40. But for one former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher, their swan song actually came a lot earlier than expected as Erik Swanson has called it a career at the young age of 32 after just seven MLB seasons.
For Swanson, he will forever be remembered in Toronto as being part of the controversial trade that sent fan favourite Teoscar Hernández to the Seattle Mariners during the 2022-23 offseason. Even though Hernández didn’t end up raking it big for the Mariners, the move would eventually pave way for the star outfielder to join the Los Angeles Dodgers.