Breaking: 13-Year Veteran Lance Lynn Makes Huge Decision About Future

At the age of 37, after a 13-year major league career, two-time All-Star and three-time Cy Young candidate Lance Lynn has announced his retirement from baseball.

Lance Lynn announced his retirement on his wife’s podcast. Good luck Lance!
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) April 1, 2025

The right-hander made the announcement on his wife's podcast.

"Baseball season is upon us, and I'm right here on the couch. And that is where I'm going to stay," Lynn said to his wife on the pod. "There's the update. I am officially retiring from baseball, right here and right now."

He said that going out as a Cardinal, at Busch Stadium, with a win, was the ideal way to wrap his career.

He added that he wasn't offered a deal in free agency that met his expectations, but added that he hasn't missed being around the ballpark this season.

Lynn's career was a St. Louis Cardinals sandwich: Six years with the Cards at the top of his big-league run, and then a final season last year back in St. Loo.

After being a first-round pick of the Cards in the 2008 MLB Draft, he became an All-Star in his first full season in 2012, going 18-7 with a 3.78 ERA.

With the Texas Rangers in 2019, he started a run of three seasons as a legit Cy Young candidate, finishing 5th and 6th in the voting over his two years there, and then a 3rd-place finish with the Chicago White Sox in 2021.

Overall, he went 143-99 in his big league career, finishing with a 3.74 ERA and averaging exactly a strikeout per inning.

He said he's going to concentrate on fishing and hunting and enjoying life.