A shocker was reported Tuesday by our colleague Rob Lafary in the Osgood Journal.
He writes that past Batesville Bulldog Zach Britton’s professional baseball career has come to an end. Rob says Zach had played the last 2 years for the Toronto Blue Jays’ Class Double-A New Hampshire team, and had been with the Jays organization the last 4 years.
Over the weekend, Britton, who’d only been out of high school 7 years, suddenly announced his “retirement” from baseball. Zach had reportedly played 55 games for New Hampshire this year, his batting average .205. He’d hit 4 homers, batted 28 runners in, stolen 5 bases, and scored 24 runs.
He’d had some difficult injuries the last couple years, but there’s no official word on the record as to just why a 25-year-old is “retiring.”