The Padres gave him a final chance last summer to help lead them to the playoffs.īut his career will forever be defined by his 148 starts in Chicago, the 3.14 ERA and 73 regular-season wins there, the two no-hitters, the Cy Young and nine postseason starts that included two of the biggest wins in franchise history - in Games 2 and 6 in Cleveland in the World Series.
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The Phillies paid him more, as a free agent after the 2017 season. The Orioles drafted him and eventually made him an Opening Day starter. He pitched for four teams during a 12-year career that included a 115-93 record and 3.98 ERA and more than 1,600 innings. That is Arrieta’s legacy, a place that will forever belong to him in Chicago baseball lore. Maybe the whole timetable for the rebuild is different without him.” And we’re not a playoff team without him. “I don’t even think we’re competitive in ’15 without him. Looking back on Arrieta’s impact as an emerging star after the Cubs landed him in a 2013 deadline trade with the Orioles, former Cubs president Theo Epstein said a few years ago: Kevin Durant Fires Back at Fans After Playoff Disappointment With time, the blemishes of a failed 2021 return engagement that included a snarky anti-mask comment to a veteran Cubs reporter over his final Zoom call will fade as his 2014-17 contributions become set in the marble foundation of team history, alongside the likes of Three-Finger Brown, Pete Alexander, Fergie Jenkins and teammates Jon Lester and Kyle Hendricks. With the news Monday of his retirement at 36, that’s how Arrieta should be remembered - as one of the greatest pitchers in the game for a three- or four-year peak with the Cubs that included a 2015 Cy Young Award and the 2016 championship more than a century in the making.
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Get the NBC 5 Chicago app for iOS or Android and pick your alerts.īut nothing that happened during that ill-fated 2021 season on the mound or on Zoom can diminish the historic and outsized role he played for a franchise that desperately sought an end to the longest championship drought in American professional sports history. No portion of this content may be disseminated, reprinted or reproduced for any reason without the written consent of Perfect Game Inc.Īny breach of the conditions of this agreement will result in immediate cancellation of subscription and all paid fees will be forfeit.Stay informed about local news and weather. PG CrossChecker and/or DiamondKast will e-mail you a receipt within the following 24 hours.Īll content on this site is copyrighted (© 1994- 2022) and all rights are reserved.
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