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Brewers third baseman Aramis Ramirez likely done after 2015 season

By Will Osgood

Sep 11, 2014; Milwaukee, WI, USA; Milwaukee Brewers third baseman Aramis Ramirez (16) can
Sep 11, 2014; Milwaukee, WI, USA; Milwaukee Brewers third baseman Aramis Ramirez (16) can /
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Milwaukee Brewers 3B Aramis Ramirez is likely to retire after the 2015 MLB season. 

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Milwaukee Brewers third baseman Aramis Ramirez could be playing in his final Major League season. The 36-year-old slugger is actually playing out the option year of a three-year free agent contract he signed with the Brewers prior to the 2012 MLB season.

In that contract he is making $14 million, making it understandable as to why he chose to pick up the player option on his deal with the Brewers.

Ramirez is a three-time National League All-Star, including in 2014 when he was a huge part of the Brewers’ blazing first half start. He, like his team, sputtered down the stretch. The collapse for the Brewers was as bad as any in recent memory.

The only one within the past 20 years that comes to mind is the one in which the then-California Angeles held a 12-game lead in the AL West in late August before being caught by the Seattle Mariners and then losing in Seattle in a one-game playoff to miss out on the playoffs in 1995.

In the first half of last season, Ramirez hit 11 home runs, drove in 43 runs, hit .288 with a .795 OPS. The latter numbers were quite similar in the second half of the year: .283 batting average, .715 OPS. But he hit just four home runs and drove in only 23 runs. And he played in 63 games (the second half is not actually the second half, but about 70 games, when the first half is about 90).

Ramirez spoke with MLB.com Brewers beat writer Adam McCalvy about his career, where he revealed that this could be his final season coming up.

The 17-year veteran didn’t stop there with McCalvy. He told the reporter the thing he is most proud of regarding his career is that he was a starting position player from the beginning to the end. Ramirez made him debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates on May 26, 1998 at the ripe-old age of just 19.

Ramirez played for the Pirates until 2002 when he was shipped to the division rival Chicago Cubs near the July 31 trade deadline. The Cubs that season came as close to making the World Series as they had since 1984 or since, going through the torture of “The Bartman game,” before losing in Game 7 at home to the Florida Marlins.

Ramirez contributed greatly to that team initially, and remained with the Cubs until signing in Milwaukee after the 2011 season. He saw the good and the bad in Chicago. He was always one of the Cubs’ best players while playing on Chicago’s North Side. But one thing eluded him, and continues to even to this day.

“I think I achieved my goals. The only thing I’m missing is playing in a World Series.”

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