{"id":257191,"date":"2026-08-11T12:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/two-time-all-star-former-batting-champion-announces-retirement\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T12:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:02:54","slug":"two-time-all-star-former-batting-champion-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/two-time-all-star-former-batting-champion-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-time All-Star, former batting champion announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Tim Anderson\u2019s time in Major League Baseball has come to an end.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/chicago_white_sox\/5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> shortstop announced his retirement, closing the book on a career in which he became a fan favorite and one of the faces of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson&#8217;s retirement was revealed in a social media post from the White Sox official X account. Chicago also revealed that it would honor Anderson in a pregame ceremony on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson spent the first eight seasons of his MLB career with the White Sox.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/two_time_all_star_former_batting_champion_announces_retirement\/s1_13132_44159372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Anderson\u2019s time in Major League Baseball has come to an end.\u00a0 The former Chicago White Sox shortstop announced his retirement, closing the book on a career in which he became a fan favorite and one of the faces of the franchise. Anderson&#8217;s retirement was revealed in a social media post from the White Sox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-257191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}