Josh Donaldson played for the Minnesota Twins for two seasons (2020, 2021), but only played 163 games due to injury issues and a pandemic-shortened 2020 season. While he was far from his MVP form in Minnesota, Donaldson still maintained a respectable..
When the two-time silver slugger and three-time All-Star was transferred to the New York Yankees before the 2022 season, his career took a turn for the worst. Between the 2022 and 2023 seasons, the now-38-year-old slashed just
So, with the MLB just a few weeks into spring training in 2024, Donaldson stated on Monday that he is formally putting up his cleats and calling it a career. He announced the news on “The Mayor’s Office” alongside Sean Casey, wearing a Row The Boat t-shirt.
But that was about all Minnesota got during Josh’s roughly one-hour retirement announcement, in which he went team-by-team through his career. If Donaldson spent two years with the Twins and his retirement show/announcement covered his entire career in such detail, why was his time with the Twins cut short?
Josh Donaldson wears a Row The Boat t-shirt, but keeps Minnesota Twins conversation brief.
The apparent answer to that question is the show he was on, which is a national baseball talk show-style podcast hosted by Sean Casey, a former MLB player turned MLB Network analyst who has no history with the Twins other than his time in Cleveland while playing.
However, I cannot entirely blame the truncated Twins segment on the mainstream media, which is continually looking down on little old us. When the timeline of Donaldson’s career reached Minnesota, he began discussing how the 2020 season (his Twins debut) was postponed just as clubs were finishing spring training.
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