Longtime reliever Octavio Dotel retiring
It’s unlikely to be a major surprise, but 15-year MLB veteran Octavio Dotel is officially retiring, after last pitching in the Major Leagues in 2013 with the Detroit Tigers. Octavio Dotel spent the 2014 season hoping to make a comeback in MLB as he rehabbed his right elbow, which limited the reliever to just six appearances the year before.
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Octavio Dotel pitched for 13 different teams in his career, spending five years with the Houston Astros and two years apiece with the Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox. Octavio Dotel also pitched a single season each with the Kansas City Royals, New York Mets, Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays. He won his only World Series ring in his lone half-season with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2011. He had been traded five times in his career.
The 40-year old Octavio Dotel finishes his career with a 3.78 ERA in 951 innings pitched with 1,143 strike outs. He saved 109 games in his career, but he never had more than 36 saves in a season (2004, split with the Astros and Athletics), and spent most of his career as a setup man, such as in 2012, when he had a good year as Detroit’s primary setup reliever to Jose Valverde.
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