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Sean Kazmar Jr. Retires

By Anthony Franco | November 12, 2021 at 10:35pm CDT

Former major league infielder Sean Kazmar Jr. is retiring from professional baseball, according to an announcement from the Braves’ Triple-A affiliate in Gwinnett. The 37-year-old appeared in seventeen minor league seasons, the last eight of which came in the Atlanta system.

Kazmar was the prototypical organizational veteran, remarkably going more than a decade in between big league appearances. He broke into the majors in August 2008, not long after his 24th birthday. He made nineteen appearances with the Padres down the stretch that season, then spent the entire 2009-19 campaigns in Triple-A. Kazmar first joined the Braves’ organization in 2013 and played with Gwinnett exclusively through 2019, not appearing in 2020 because of the canceled minor league season.

That perseverance eventually paid off, as Kazmar made it back to the big leagues this past season. The Braves selected his contract in mid-April, although his second and final major league stint proved brief. Kazmar got into three games, making two plate appearances, before being outrighted off the 40-man roster. He spent the final few months of the season back with the Stripers.

Kazmar’s major league career consists of just 48 plate appearances, in which time he managed eight hits and five walks. Merely playing at the professional level for seventeen seasons is itself quite the accomplishment, though. And Kazmar’s return to the majors — however brief — was one of the better stories of the first few months of the season, no doubt made sweeter by the team’s eventual World Series win.

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  1. tstats

    1 year ago

    Cheers Scott!

    Reply
    • tstats

      1 year ago

      Wow I’m an idiot, I saw Kazmar and read kazmir. Sorry cheers to SEAN.

      Reply
      • MannyBeingMVP

        1 year ago

        No biggie.

        Rock the Casbah!

        Reply
        • wark mohlers

          1 year ago

          Great minds think alike… and so do we!

      • bucsfan0004

        1 year ago

        @tstats
        I read the same thing. Sean Kasmar, Scott Kazmir… potato, potahto

        Reply
      • The Mets "Missed WAR"

        1 year ago

        It wouldn’t be the first time this site posted an article titled “Scott Kazmir Retires.” I think it’s already happened twice and we’ll likely get a third one pretty soon.

        Reply
      • tstats

        1 year ago

        The sad thing is when I first saw the title I said to my self “don’t write Scott don’t write Scott”

        Reply
  2. MannyBeingMVP

    1 year ago

    Tstats: No, it is Sean. Not to be confused with Scott Kazmir, who is a pitcher, not an infielder.

    Reply
  3. bucketbrew35

    1 year ago

    He played on the team, that means he’ll get a ring. Seems like a great way to go out imo.

    Reply
    • MannyBeingMVP

      1 year ago

      Is that true? I had heard that it was up to the front office and they usually let players vote on it. Way cool if they only vote on post season money and anyone who played one game during regular season gets a ring, but somehow I doubt that. But I am just guessing, I have not searched the internet or anything. In any event, interesting thought.

      Reply
      • truthlemonade

        1 year ago

        I think that generally speaking, if you play 1 game for a championship team, you get a ring. However, I do believe it is up to the team. I think that Kazmar’s life story would make it hard for Atlanta to deny him.

        I do remember that the Mets denied Rickey Henderson a 2000 NL Champion (not World Series winning) ring because “he played in the postseason for a different team.” That would be the Seattle Mariners. That seems bizarre as every year we get stories of players guaranteed to get a WS ring because they played for both WS teams. Rickey Henderson was a pain in the butt for the Mets which probably led them to deny him. It’s not like he can take them to court. Lol.

        All that said: Carl Edward Jr. played one game for the Braves this year, he pitched one third of an inning, gave up 3 runs for an ERA of 81.00. Is he getting a ring for his “contributions”? I guess. He also won with the Cubs in 2016.

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        • schwender

          1 year ago

          They give rings to front office staff, so playing one game for the actual team is a guaranteed ring. The organ player for the Capitals lives up the street from my MIL and he shows off his ring to everyone.

          Also I wanted to just say the phrase “Sucks to your Kazmar!”; couldn’t work it into a good joke without being offensive for no reason lol

        • Dorothy_Mantooth

          1 year ago

          The team gets to vote if non-full time players get a share of the extra playoff bonus pool (they can award partial shares) but they don’t decide who gets a ring or not. The ring decision is 100% decided on by the front office. It would be a classy move by Atlanta to give Kazmar a ring and even more classy of the players to award him with a full playoff share as well. Players like Kazmar are invaluable to organizations as they help educate/push the talented prospects to the majors even at the detriment of their own career. This guy is a real life, Crash Davis. I hope he gets both a ring and a full playoff share as an acknowledgement of his impact on the organization.

    • wark mohlers

      1 year ago

      Playing seventeen minor league seasons and finishing it off with a World Series is so awesome.

      If he played well and was rostered in the playoffs it would probably be made into a movie. Not a good movie, but a movie nonetheless. Maybe it could be called ‘Rock the Kazmar’.

      Reply
  4. DarkSide830

    1 year ago

    Gwinnett legend

    Reply
  5. Mario93

    1 year ago

    Who? Who is this?

    Reply
    • HubcapDiamondStarHalo

      1 year ago

      A man who made it WAY farther in professional baseball than most of us.

      Reply
    • RunDMC

      1 year ago

      I can’t imagine most would have followed this, but it was a nice story middle of the year when ATL was able to promote him – a 36-year old in the twilight of his career – for a brief appearance after not having seen MLB play since 2008. His wife and young children were on-hand to see his brief appearance that was a reward for his resilience. Baseball is a fickle game, and to know that someone managed to survive for that long, and get a brief taste of what he was after for so long, especially having stuck through it at 35 y/o and minimal support during a Covid-lost year, is remarkable. His story may not get re-told via Disney (Devil Ray Jim Morris in THE ROOKIE) or become a legend like Moonlight Graham (Burt Lancaster’s character in FIELD OF DREAMS), but it’s part of what makes the game great.

      Reply
  6. Rsox

    1 year ago

    13 seasons between plate appearances at the MLB level. Good for you Sean.

    Reply
  7. MannyBeingMVP

    1 year ago

    If he is single, it was more fun than a day job. If he had kids, the bus travel would be a grind. Either way, he played a long time in the minors and hit 0.257, which means he was pretty talented.

    Reply
  8. Daniella

    1 year ago

    Who?

    Reply
    • wark mohlers

      1 year ago

      The article answers that question well enough

      Reply
  9. JoeJackson4HOF

    1 year ago

    Real life Crash Davis. I hope he manages a team some day.

    Reply
    • bobtillman

      1 year ago

      Probably will, if he wants to. These days, you’re not going to get anybody who made real money (and now, that means you played 1 year in the majors) to take bus rides in Peoria. It’s the Kazmar-s who wind up coaching/managing.

      Small sample size, but I saw him a few times in AAA, and he was one who was always talking it up in the dugout, yacking with this coach or that one. The kind of guy who’s interested, I would think.

      Reply
  10. DS1

    1 year ago

    How many of us baseball fans would give their left testicle to have had Sean’s baseball career??

    Sign me up!!

    Reply
    • Rangers29

      1 year ago

      Idk, right is fine, but left might be off limits.

      Reply
      • getrealgone2

        1 year ago

        left always hurts worse.

        Reply
  11. ScottCarriere

    1 year ago

    ..thought it said ‘Scott’. Was surprisingly surprised.

    Reply
  12. detroitfan69

    1 year ago

    Hopefully the braves will give him a ring !!! My guess is yes he was part of the team .

    Reply
    • Kevin Johnson

      1 year ago

      Everyone who plays at least one game gets a ring. It’s not a decision the Braves make, it’s guaranteed.

      The decision the Braves players and coaches make is how much of the World Series 30 million dollar players share he will get.

      Last year the Dodgers gave out 61 full shares to players and coaches (almost $400,000 each) and 14 partial shares to front office workers.

      Reply
  13. pwndroia

    1 year ago

    Who? (Noticed someone beat me to it)

    Reply
    • Phillies012TG

      1 year ago

      Reading must be hard for you. But the athletic or answers the question.

      Reply
  14. jsinclair15

    1 year ago

    Talk about a real life Crash Davis

    Reply
    • jsinclair15

      1 year ago

      And if you ask who, you are not a baseball fan!!!!

      Reply
    • UGA_Steve

      1 year ago

      And I am willing to bet he did the same thing while toiling in the minors, by mentoring and helping to build those around him, even if it wasn’t obvious or direct.

      Reply
  15. Kevin Johnson

    1 year ago

    Kazmar gets a World Series ring! Awesome way to retire! Congrats!

    Reply
  16. CravenMoorehead

    1 year ago

    Had a chance to meet him when he played for the Buffalo Bisons in AAA. Unfortunate that he didn’t get to spend more time in the majors but he definitely has a future as a coach in some capacity.

    Reply
  17. bhambrave

    1 year ago

    Congratulations and Good luck, Sean!

    If the Mets call you about a job in New York, say “no”.

    Reply
  18. Lyman Bostock

    1 year ago

    At first glance I thought I saw Scott Kazmir retires lol.
    That should be soon enough though.

    Reply
  19. Rosstradamus

    1 year ago

    Poorest Mans Crash Davis! Career .257 minor-league avg with 107 HR’s in over 1,700 games played and 6,200+ at-bats (.682 OPS) Funny thing is, after just 48 Major-league Plate appearances during his career, baseball reference had him ‘projected’ to get 201 plate appearance in 2022! smh lol

    Reply
  20. No Soup For Yu!

    1 year ago

    Got some Guilder Rodriguez vibes reading this. Congrats to Sean on making all those years in the minors pay off for one last trip to the show.

    Reply
  21. Ron Tingley

    1 year ago

    True grit and determination for the dream. Glad to see the braves buy him a cup of coffee this year. It would of been nice to see him join Bubba Starling on team USA in Tokyo Japan

    Reply
  22. Ignorant Sonofab 2

    1 year ago

    Dang I thought I followed baseball pretty closely but this name did not ring a bell whatsoever. l

    Reply
  23. Ignorant Sonofab 2

    1 year ago

    Dude must know all the back roads of Gwinnett pretty well by now. Which Taco Bell is open till 2am, etc.

    Reply
  24. yamsi1912

    1 year ago

    See you in Cooperstown Sean. Well deserved!

    Tickets are $29.95

    Reply
    • Ron Tingley

      1 year ago

      You must work the ticket booth. You two can talk about what bus rides are like

      Reply

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