Mark Mulder decides to retire

by Eli Greenspan on Feb 15, 2010 11:28 AM EST Comment 3 comments

NBC Sports has learned that free agent left-hander Mark Mulder has opted to retire. Mulder appeared set to join the Brewers after working out with now pitching coach Rick Peterson. The 32-year old left-hander hasn't pitched a full season since 2005, when he went 16-8 with a 3.64 ERA in 32 starts.

Mulder did string together five consecutive seasons of 16 wins or more, and owns a career 103-60 record with a career 4.18 ERA in nine seasons with the A's and Cardinals.

The report came from Milwaukee, which was then confirmed by Brewers pitching coach Rick Peterson to MLB.com.

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this is being disputed by his agent now

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by micdog2001 on Feb 15, 2010 5:03 PM EST reply actions

Disputed by Mulder directly as well

Via San Francisco Chronicle’s Susan Slusser:

“It’s unbelievable. Where is it coming from?” he asked me with a chuckle. “I never said ‘retirement.’ That’s the wrong word. The thing is, physically, I feel great, but my arm just doesn’t work the way I want to work, so I just shut it down from throwing. But I never really said I was going to retire; I’m 32 and I don’t feel like there’s anything physically wrong with me.”

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by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 15, 2010 10:04 PM EST reply actions

Why dooes there have to be around 50 million posts about Mark Mulder

The dreams of a Wainwright, Carpenter, and Haren 3-headed monster still haven’t gone away :P.

/cry

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by Taskmaster on Feb 15, 2010 11:25 PM EST reply actions