Due to his wife, a very loyal player of the St. Louis Cardinals has announced his sudden retirement, sending a powerful statement and bidding the team and supporters.

Due to his wife, a very loyal player of the St. Louis Cardinals has announced his sudden retirement, sending a powerful statement and bidding the team and supporters.

After announcing his retirement from baseball in 2024, Adam Wainwright will be the only team legend gone from the St. Louis Cardinals. Waino played for the team for eighteen years for his whole big league career, winning hearts and minds along the way.

Wainwright’s gratitude for the Cardinals organization and all the coaches and players that supported him over his career is beyond words. Waino submitted an emotional Players’ Tribune article to express his gratitude to everyone. Fans of St. Louis will be especially moved by this message:

“Aside from the jokes, it was fantastic—200 in front of you all for my last start. I won’t entail you in a play-by-play, given how recent it was. However, I’ll tell you about Adam Olsen and Jason Shutt, the two individuals I hugged first. Adam helped me recover from my Achilles and Tommy John. He is our head athletic trainer right now. Another one of our trainers, Jason, basically made it his duty to see me through to the finish line. Although you don’t hear much about each of those people, they each contributed to saving a portion of my career. The absurd thing is that St. Louis is teeming with folks just like that. Perhaps not individuals who delivered me, like Adam and Jason did.

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But those who made a positive impact on me at a certain point in my career or touched a particular component of it. And when I consider all those individuals, including my teammates and our fans, I wonder where I would be without them and why our bond is so strong. My one and only fondest memory of being a Cardinal is how, each time I was on the field, I contributed to the telling of a new tale. Beyond my tale, but not my own. Greater than everyone’s.

One of the greatest Cardinals ever, Adam Wainwright, finished with a 3.53 ERA and, of course, reached 200 wins in 2023.