July 28th, 2017. It’s not a date that many Washington Nationals fans will remember too vividly, but that was the day that the team acquired Howie Kendrick from the Philadelphia Phillies ahead of the 2017 trade deadline.
Nobody could’ve imagined what would come next for the two sides over the next three years.
But 41 months later, after Kendrick became a hero for the Nationals during their improbable run to the first World Series in franchise history, the 15-year veteran has decided to retire from baseball, announcing the news in an Instagram post this evening.