Eight-year MLB veteran Dan Straily has announced his retirement, as relayed by Codify Baseball on social media. Straily pitched for the A’s, Cubs, Astros, Reds, Marlins, and Orioles in his MLB career.
Straily, 36, was a 24th-round pick by the A’s back in 2009. He made his big league debut a few years later during the 2012 season and provided league average results for Oakland down the stretch, with a 3.89 ERA in seven starts despite allowing 11 homers in those seven outings. He returned to the Athletics rotation for the 2013 season and was now able to post league average results with matching peripherals as he pitched to a 3.96 ERA (98 ERA+) with a 4.05 FIP across 152 2/3 innings and 27 starts. That performance was impressive enough to earn Straily a fourth-place finish in AL Rookie of the Year voting that year behind Wil Myers, Jose Iglesias, and Chris Archer.
In 2014, Straily struggled a bit in seven early-season starts with the A’s and was optioned to Triple-A. That changed when Straily was traded to the Cubs alongside top prospects Addison Russell and Billy McKinney for Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel. Straily made a few appearances with Chicago, but they weren’t productive outings. The Cubs saw fit to move on from Straily following the 2014 campaign, and during the offseason he was flipped to the Astros alongside Luis Valbuena in the deal that sent Dexter Fowler to Chicago. Straily once again spent much of the 2015 season in the minors, making just four appearances in the majors for Houston while pitching to a 5.40 ERA in those outings.
Straily was traded for a third time in early 2016, when he was dealt by the Astros to the Padres for Erik Kratz. San Diego promptly designated Straily for assignment, but was plucked off waivers by the Reds and managed to stick in the big leagues with Cincinnati. The righty had arguably the best season of his career with the Reds as he pitched to a 3.76 ERA in a career-high 191 1/3 innings of work. While Straily’s home run rate held back his peripherals (4.88 FIP), he was the exact sort of reliable, innings-eating arm a rebuilding club like the Reds needed.
The fourth trade of Straily’s career came after his strong 2016 season, when the Marlins sought to acquire some rotation depth and surrendered a package of talent headlined by eventual Reds ace Luis Castillo to acquire him. Straily pitched two seasons at the back of Miami’s rotation, with a 4.20 ERA and 4.79 FIP across 304 innings of work. He was released by Miami shortly before Opening Day 2019 and latched on with the Orioles, for whom he struggled to provide results across 47 2/3 innings before being designated for assignment in June of that year.
Straily’s stint with the Orioles was the end of his time in the majors, but it was by no means the end of his professional career as a player. The righty went overseas to the KBO League and went on to make 89 starts for the Lotte Giants with a 3.29 ERA in 503 innings of work from 2020 to 2023. He made brief stateside returns in 2022 and ’24 with the Diamondbacks and Cubs, but was unable to crack the big league roster with either club. Straily wrapped up his pro career with 32 innings of work for the Diablos Rojos del Mexico of the independent Mexican League this year, and exits baseball with a lifetime 4.19 ERA across 2351 1/3 innings of work between the major, minor, and foreign leagues he participated in. We at MLB Trade Rumors congratulate Straily on a fine career and wish him all the best in his post-playing pursuits.
saw him pitch in College… and in the Major Leagues… enjoy your retirement
No more batting practice!🤣
Let’s see you pitch 191 innings of 3.76 era ball in Cincinnati.
Have a great retirement Dan!
Enjoy retirement “The Journeyman”
Fun podcast if you haven’t listened..especially the first season in Korea during 2020 as he detailed each of his stops along the way..great insight into the life of an average ball player and what they go through
Congratulations on a great career my fellow Marshall alum. Once shared the elevator at PNC with his family when he pitched for As
Straily was a serviceable pitcher in the bigs. Nothing wrong with that. Enjoy your retirement, Dan!
Nothing wrong at all Reds! Just for you-know-what & giggles, I asked AI “what percentage of the US population has never played in MLB” and it said,”while impossible to exactly quantify, the number is effectively 100%…”
So, good job Dan and enjoy retirement!
Nothinge wrong at all Reds! Just for you-know-what & giggles, I asked AI “what percentage of the US population has never played in MLB” and it said,”while impossible to exactly quantify, the number is effectively 100%…”
So, good job Dan and enjoy retirement!
Good luck on your retirement Dan.
As a Marlins fan, I wish the Marlins never traded for him. The bitter disappointment of losing a future All Star (Luis Castillo) and to hear the Front Office billing Strailly as the replacement Ace for Jose Fernandez. That didn’t work out too well.
Too bad he’s not a Lefty, he would still be living the dream
In 2012 I was at an A’s game with nephew Gary Coffman and he went down to near the dugout with a ball. Dan Straily signed it. He asked me “who was that?” I told him, “Dan Straily, rookie pitcher, just pitched his first major league game for the A’s yesterday.” Gary yelled back down, “thank you, Dan Straily!” Staily looked up from the crowd of autograph seekers in front of him, and yelled back, “You’re welcome, kid.”
Didn’t Straily do a MLBTR fanchat a few years ago? Anyway, I wish him a happy retirement and fond memories of his baseball career.
Gruß,
BSHH