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Bonderman Considering Retirement

By Tim Dierkes | July 28, 2010 at 9:16am CDT

Jeremy Bonderman is seriously considering retiring at age 28 after the season, reports Vince Ellis of the Detroit Free Press.  Bonderman will be a free agent, and he could hang up the spikes if he doesn't get an acceptable offer to return to the Tigers or sign with a team somewhat near his Pasco, Washington home.

Bonderman says he's saved a lot of money, so he has the ability to retire.  He's earned over $40MM in his career, most of it coming from a four-year deal signed in '06.  Bonderman should find interest if he decides to continue pitching.  He's shown good health, decent peripherals, and flashes of his former velocity this year.

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  1. caminsc

    15 years ago

    wish I could have made $40MM by the time I was 28.

    Reply
    • whitesoxfan424

      15 years ago

      No joke. After seeing some of the other career earnings for these retiring players, Bonderman’s really kind of jumped out.

      Reply
  2. fatjedi19

    15 years ago

    Maybe he’d give the Mariners a hometown discount. I think he’d be a nice addition.

    Reply
  3. iains

    15 years ago

    It’s a perfectly acceptable position. Not everyone needs to play until their arm falls off. If you have the money stashed away and you no longer feel the inclination to play any more, why not retire? If you are smart about how you handle that money, it’s good for a number of generations. Enjoy life, buy a nice house and raise your kids.

    Reply
    • pageian

      15 years ago

      +1. To each his own. It would be silly to begrudge the guy doing what he wants. That said, if it were me I’d have to think long and hard about walking away from the kind of money he’s looking at, even if he never again approaches what he’s making now. Even if I hated baseball I’d probably have to play because there isn’t much else I could do that would earn that kind of money. Besides, retiring at 28 leaves a lot of time to do nothing, I’d hate to turn 45 and realize I was out of money and suddenly have to find work. Oh well, if he’s setup to retire and that’s what he wants to do, more power to him.

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      • Paul M

        15 years ago

        More than likely he already has a good investor on his side and he’ll put some money in good investments.

        Reply
  4. tigers22

    15 years ago

    Wow, didn’t see that coming

    Reply
  5. $1742854

    15 years ago

    The guy can still bring some gas–maybe reinvent as a 8th inning guy?

    Reply
    • penpaper

      15 years ago

      Was just thinking the same thing. However, is the 1-2 million he makes per year as a reliever worth it? If this press release is true, then I doubt he pitches again unless its for a contending team. He obviously feels like he has done everything he could and has the money to call it quits, so I doubt he goes to AAA or a bottom barrel team to “re-invent” himself.

      Reply
  6. bbxxj

    15 years ago

    I bet Bonderman could make 1-2MM a year for the next 10 years as a LOOGY/middle reliever for just about any team in the bigs. But does he want to bounce from team to team making not much more than he already has for the most enjoyable years of his life? Question only he can answer and I hope the best for him.

    Reply
    • Joshua Swain

      15 years ago

      I guess depending on how well he has managed his money, is it worth all the work to be away from family to make that? Like you said only he can answer it.

      Reply
    • $1742854

      15 years ago

      Bonderman couldn’t technically be a LOOGY. You know, the whole right-handedness and all.

      Reply
      • bbxxj

        15 years ago

        Oh yeah, that’s Nate Robertson I’m thinking of. I get those two mixed up.

        Reply
    • oldoak33

      15 years ago

      It’s hard to be a right handed LOOGY

      Reply
      • pageian

        15 years ago

        He could be the first ROOGY maybe?

        Reply
        • verlander

          15 years ago

          I think Armando Galarraga could pull that off.

          Reply
          • Ian_Smell

            15 years ago

            Jim Joyce would just rob him of that opportunity.

            Reply
  7. RL

    15 years ago

    More power to him if he really wants to retire. If you don’t enjoy playing and have more than enough money to live comfortably for the rest of your life, why keep playing? It’s more likely, though, that this is a bargaining tactic.

    Reply
  8. ugotrpk3113

    15 years ago

    This smells like a move on his agent’s end. He throws out the retirement card, some team will offer just a couple more $$$ to get him to rethink, he smiles behind closed doors.

    Oswalt was also suppose to retire – He saved money blah blah blah. All of this is a smokescreen.

    Reply
    • verlander

      15 years ago

      I could actually believe it with Bonderman.

      Reply
    • aap212

      15 years ago

      Oswalt talked about retiring after his current contract, not during it. And Oswalt really doesn’t need any more money. He lives in rural Mississippi. He has enough money to buy his hometown and the five surrounding counties.

      Reply
    • aap212

      15 years ago

      Oswalt talked about retiring after his current contract, not during it. And Oswalt really doesn’t need any more money. He lives in rural Mississippi. He has enough money to buy his hometown and the five surrounding counties.

      Reply
  9. HHHDMS

    15 years ago

    I wish I could retire at 28…to live off the interest of the $$$ hes made..hes set for life…Id retire 🙂

    Reply
  10. 55saveslives

    15 years ago

    Goodbye…you won’t be missed.

    Reply
  11. progmatinee

    15 years ago

    lol at “i saved a lot of money”. I thought all atheletes thought they were Montgomery Brewster.

    Reply
  12. aap212

    15 years ago

    If Bonderman’s career has been half as frustrating to him as it’s been to fans, I can understand the temptation to walk away.

    Reply
  13. bigpat

    15 years ago

    Nice to hear an athlete is smart and saving money instead of buying the most expensive and dumbest things they can get their hands on, like a lot of football players.

    If he feels like he can retire, than more power to him. He can probably still get a modest 1 or 2 year deal, and I feel like Detroit would probably bring him back if he wanted to.

    Reply
    • pageian

      15 years ago

      Basketball players too. Antoine Walker and Derrick Coleman have both pissed away twice as much money as Jeremy Bonderman has earned. Hard to do.

      Reply
      • paorta2

        15 years ago

        Yeah, baseball players don’t do that. That’s why so many of them retire at 28.

        Reply
      • paorta2

        15 years ago

        Yeah, baseball players don’t do that. That’s why so many of them retire at 28.

        Reply
  14. verlander

    15 years ago

    Kind of surprised to hear retirement talk, but if you’ve been through what he’s been through since ’07 it kind of makes sense. I can imagine that’s very frustrating and he does have a young family to think about. I still think he comes back, either with the Tigers or someone else, for one or two years.

    Reply
  15. j6takish

    15 years ago

    I always liked Bonderman, he wasn’t afraid to hit guys purposely as “retaliation”, or when he felt a player was especially douchey/overrated

    Reply
    • verlander

      15 years ago

      //or when he felt a player was especially douchey/overrated//

      Really?

      Reply
  16. The Big Clayboski

    15 years ago

    Who’s even going to offer this guy a contract now that he’s considering retirement? I don’t want to sign a guy who’s heart has to be called into question.

    Reply
  17. JASONH

    15 years ago

    This is simply a negotiation tactic.

    Reply
  18. JASONH

    15 years ago

    This is simply a negotiation tactic.

    Reply

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