Proper-hander Trevor Cahill has formally retired after 18 skilled seasons, agent John Boggs instructed Newsweek’s Jon Paul Hoornstra. Cahill’s retirement was initially famous by the Gastonia Ghost Peppers of the impartial Atlantic League, after the 37-year-old Cahill made two appearances in a comeback try this summer season.
Earlier than his Atlantic League work this yr, Cahill’s final look in professional ball got here when he tossed 20 2/3 innings within the Mets farm system in 2022. That stint in New York’s group got here on the heels of a 13-year run within the majors that noticed Cahill toss 1507 2/3 innings with 9 completely different golf equipment.
A second-round decide for the Athletics within the 2006 draft, Cahill broke into the Present with by throwing 178 2/3 innings in his 2009 rookie season, after which adopted up that workhorse yr with a 2.97 ERA over 196 2/3 frames in 2010. The latter efficiency earned Cahill an All-Star nod, a ninth-place end in AL Cy Younger Award voting, and a five-year, $30.5MM contract extension in April 2011. Cahill’s five-year pact stood because the longest assured deal the A’s gave to any participant till this yr, when the membership inked long-term extensions with Lawrence Butler (seven years) and Brent Rooker (5 years).
Regardless of the seeming contractual safety, Cahill discovered himself on the transfer by December 2011, when he was dealt to the Diamondbacks as a part of a five-player swap. He posted respectable ends in Arizona’s rotation in 2012-13 earlier than working into struggles through the 2014 season that carried into 2015, and after bouncing round from the D’Backs to the Braves to the Dodgers to the Cubs all inside a five-month span, Cahill reinvented himself as a reliever in Chicago. Cahill labored out of the pen in 60 of his 61 appearances with the Cubs over the 2015-16 seasons, posting a 2.61 ERA and incomes a World Sequence ring for his work with the streak-busting 2016 squad (although Cahill didn’t see any motion throughout Chicago’s playoff run).
Cahill returned to rotation work after signing a free agent take care of the Padres through the 2016-17 offseason, and that kicked off a stretch of Cahill pitching for six completely different golf equipment (together with a return stint with Oakland in 2018) over his last 5 Main League seasons. The outcomes had been very inconsistent, as Cahill began to run into some issues with the house run ball, and his ordinary grounder-heavy method had some built-in variance relying on his defenses and batted-ball luck.
For his profession, Cahill completed with a 4.26 ERA in 361 video games (233 of them begins). Whereas solely posting a 17.8% profession strikeout price, Cahill had a knack for conserving the ball on the bottom for a lot of his profession, with a 54% groundball price.
We at MLB Commerce Rumors congratulate Cahill on a tremendous profession, and want him all one of the best in his post-playing days.
