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Mike Dunn Announces Retirement

By Jeff Todd | February 4, 2020 at 8:26am CDT

Veteran southpaw Mike Dunn announced that he is finished with his playing days, as Bob Nightengale of USA Today conveyed via Twitter. The 34-year-old says he’s ready to spend more time with his family.

Dunn just wrapped up a three-year deal with the Rockies that didn’t quite turn out as planned. The typically hard-throwing lefty lost velocity out of the gates in Colorado and never really found his footing. He struggled with injuries over the final two seasons of the pact and wasn’t effective when he was on the mound. All told, Dunn managed only 85 innings of 5.93 ERA ball with the Rox.

There were plenty of good seasons before that, of course. Dunn was long a valuable performer for the Marlins during a six-year stint. He worked to a 3.59 ERA with 9.8 K/9 and 4.1 BB/9 over 328 frames in Miami.

Add it all up, including Dunn’s early-career stints with the Yankees and Braves, and he threw 436 total innings in the bigs. He allowed an even 4.00 ERA for his career. As you might expect, Dunn was generally quite a bit more effective against opposing lefties, holding them to a .232/.315/.353 cumulative batting line.

MLBTR extends its congratulations and best wishes to Dunn and his family.

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31 Comments

  1. ForestCobraAL

    5 years ago

    Most of the Rockies deals are turning out as expected from outside the minds of the Monfort brothers.

    Reply
  2. abcrazy4dodgers

    5 years ago

    He’s Dunn.

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    • Atlfan

      5 years ago

      I see what you did there.

      Reply
      • bravesfan

        5 years ago

        Bravo

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    • HALfromVA

      5 years ago

      Reply
    • HALfromVA

      5 years ago

      Nice

      Reply
  3. DarkSide830

    5 years ago

    Colorado’s a career killer for relievers

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    • Eatdust666

      5 years ago

      Starting pitchers as well, but is a paradise for hitters.

      Reply
      • bravesfan

        5 years ago

        Yea not limited to just relievers

        Reply
  4. Ironman_4life

    5 years ago

    What’s really neat is when you can retire as a professional athlete before anybody knows who you are.

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    • spinach

      5 years ago

      Kind of works that way for all industries.

      Reply
  5. eyesaiah

    5 years ago

    Rockies make the worst bullpen decisions, they sign multiple free agents & only the ones who came up through their system have success the following year

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  6. gmenfan

    5 years ago

    $65K an inning over his career. Not too shabby.

    Reply
  7. lowtalker1

    5 years ago

    I guess he was Dunn

    Reply
  8. KermitJagger

    5 years ago

    He dropped the Mike and said “I’m Dunn”.

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    • krillin89

      5 years ago

      If you’re not a dad already, you will/would make a great one.

      Reply
      • KermitJagger

        5 years ago

        Thank you. I am a dad and can assure you that no one in my family thinks my jokes are funny. So I’m doing it right.

        Reply
  9. nemolee.exe

    5 years ago

    Ding Dong, the witch is Dead.

    Reply
  10. nemolee.exe

    5 years ago

    Ding Dong, the witch is Dead.

    Reply
  11. 8

    5 years ago

    He dunn

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    Reply
  12. robluca21

    5 years ago

    Wow I’m getting old…I remember following him in the yankees minor league system and him getting comps to Mike Stanton ( relief pitcher from the 1990s and 2000s

    Crazy how time flies

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    • KermitJagger

      5 years ago

      Tell me about it. I turn 83 next week.

      Reply
      • carlote

        5 years ago

        really? me too

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        • KermitJagger

          5 years ago

          83 months that is.

          Reply
  13. abravesfan 2

    5 years ago

    Dunn was a part of the package from the Braves to the Marlins for Dan Uggla. So much for how lefties pitchers can play forever in the MLB.

    Reply
    • Kevin28786

      5 years ago

      He probably still could. Doesn’t sound like he wants to, though.

      Reply
  14. Vin Scully

    5 years ago

    Good ole MLB. Where 34 yr olds retire to spend more time with their family. Meanwhile the fans works 60 hrs a week until they drop dead in order to survive and maybe take the family to a ballgame once a year.

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    • Badfinger

      5 years ago

      Somebody had too much bitter juice today.

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  15. krillin89

    5 years ago

    I remember being at this guy’s first game. As an initiation, they made him walk around the field with a little kiddie backpack on

    Reply
  16. Eatdust666

    5 years ago

    If you take away his disastrous tenure for Colorado, he’d have a 3.54 ERA (138 earned runs in 351 innings pitched).

    Reply
  17. cofan17

    5 years ago

    Please convince Shaw, McGee, and Davis to retire also.

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