Longtime Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford retiring after 14 seasons

Longtime Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford retiring after 14 seasons

Brandon Crawford is calling it a career.

The longtime San Francisco Giants shortstop announced on social media on Wednesday night that he has officially retired.

Crawford spent nearly all of his 14-year career in Major League Baseball with the Giants, who selected him in the fourth round of the 2008 MLB Draft out of UCLA. He made his debut with the franchise in 2011, and he helped lead them to a pair of World Series titles over the next 13 seasons first in 2012, when they swept the Detroit Tigers, and again in 2014 when they beat the Kansas City Royals in seven games. Crawford, a three-time All-Star, won four Gold Glove awards throughout his career and he picked up a Silver Slugger award in 2015.

Crawford spent this past season with the St. Louis Cardinals, though he appeared in just 28 games with the team before he was released. In total, he held a .249 batting average with 1,404 hits and 147 home runs over his 1,682 games in the league.

The Giants will officially honor Crawford, who grew up in the Bay Area, next season on April 26.

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