前球队的脸，被昵称为"The Chief"的前博览会/国民队终结者 Chad Cordero 於昨天 正式宣布退休，他表示自己希望能够把更多的时间用来陪伴家人。不过即使要退休了， Cordero 对棒球的热情仍旧不减，也希望未来能够转任教练，继续从事跟棒球相关的工 作，把棒球当成是自己的一部分。 2003年选秀会博览会队挑中了名列第1轮第20顺位的 Cordero，而且那一年 Cordero 就 升上大联盟，表现也十分优异，12场出赛投11局飙出12K，ERA 1.64。05年是 Cordero 生涯最辉煌的时刻，出赛74场投74.1局，ERA 1.82，拿下47次救援成功，该年 Cordero 不但入选明星赛，甚至国联CYA票选还拿下第5名及国联MVP票选第14名。夜复一夜，每当 Cordero 站在投手丘上时都让 RFK Stadium 的露天看台震撼不已。 然而过度频繁的出赛最後酿成了悲剧。05～07这三年内 Cordero 就出赛了218场，吃了 222又2/3局，负荷过重导致在08年 Cordero 的右肩膀终於爆了，只能开刀进行 torn labrum 修复的手术。更令人难过的是在 Cordero 受伤之後，当时的GM Jim Bowden 在 毫无未知会过 Cordero 本人的情况下，於接受电台采访时宣布等球季结束後国民将不会 和他续约，消息一出令 Cordero 本人以及不少球迷震撼及痛苦不已。Cordero 和国民 关系的结束只能用仓促和悲伤来形容。 离开国民队之後 Cordero 展开了他的复出旅程，然而自受伤之後 Cordero 就再也找不 回原本的身手，复出之旅进行得并不顺遂。09年他被水手队签下，在亚利桑那新人联盟 及低阶1A Northwest League 共出赛14场。2010年一开始在水手队3A出赛，季中曾短暂 上到过大联盟，只投了9又2/3局就掉了7自责分，ERA 6.52，之後被水手队释出；随後 大都会签下他，在3A出赛17场表现不错，ERA 1.69，但季後大都会并没有续签。今年1月 Cordero 又被蓝鸟队签下，在3A Las Vegas 出赛9场，投了17.2局掉17分，ERA 8.66， 在上个月被蓝鸟队释出。6/3 Cordero 又改到独立联盟的圣徒队打球，一开始表现出色 ，前4场出赛只被打2支安打，然而最近3场就狂失9分，包括6/120.2局爆了4分搞砸球队 领先导致最後输球。最终，Cordero 以圣徒队作为他的职棒终点，在圣徒队0胜1败，被 打击率.414，7场出赛投6局掉9分，ERA 13.50。 总结 "The Chief" 生涯在大联盟征战7个球季，出赛314场，330.1局内送出298K，ERA 2.89，拿下128次救援成功，其中113次是球队改名为国民队後所拿下的，也是目前队史 的救援王。 对於当年 Jim Bowden 草率的处理，Cordero 显得十分心平气和，甚至表示说希望能够 再回到华盛顿。 「即使之後我离开了，我仍旧想再回来这里。对我来说，必须离开国民队让我难以接受 。在内心深处我总是希望能够重返华盛顿，并且在这里打球。谁知道呢？也许我将会 回来这里并多拜访几次，以及下到球场上。我和我的妻子都依旧热爱着这座城市，我 依旧热爱着这支球队。」 对於前几年球队对於他的使用过度导致受伤一事，Cordero 也表现得相当平静。 「我可能在最後一年投得有些挣扎，但我不会去烦恼这一点。我拥有一个非常棒的职业 生涯，虽然因为受伤导致职业生涯缩短了，但在打球的这段时间我过得很开心。我仍 旧热爱棒球，我依旧热爱球赛。」 ******* 很遗憾，我没能有幸看过 "The Chief" 的任何一场球赛，即使如此，对於 "The Chief" 才年仅29岁就必须黯然退休，我也觉得万分可惜，相信对绝大多数的国民球迷来说想必 更是如此。以 "The Chief" 那几年的优异成绩来推断，如果没受伤想必他的职业生涯 应该会更加辉煌灿烂吧...可惜这一切都只是"如果"罢了。事到如今球团把 "The Chief" 请回来当个投教也好阿...让他回来吧......〒△〒 ******* Former Nationals closer Chad Cordero announces retirement Chad Cordero, the closer whose high-wire saves and flat-brimmed cap helped define the first season after baseball returned to Washington, announced his retirement yesterday at 29. Cordero had been pitching for the independent St. Paul Saints, his last attempt at a comeback following this spring training, which he spent with the Toronto Blue Jays. Cordero – known as the Chief – played seven seasons in the majors, but the one he will be remembered for is 2005. Cordero, then 23, saved 47 games, made the all-star team, finished fifth in the Cy Young voting and 14th in the MVP race and, night after night, made the bleachers shake at RFK Stadium. Cordero’s tenure in Washington ended abruptly and sadly in 2008, when he underwent major right shoulder surgery. General Manager Jim Bowden announced in a radio interview, during the season and before he had informed Cordero, that he the Nationals would not be tendering a contract to Cordero, rankling both the reliever and his fans. The rest of Cordero’s career was a dispiriting series of sputtering comebacks. He reached the majors at the end of the last season and appeared in nine games for the Seattle Mariners, allowing seven earned runs in 9 2/3 innings. Cordero also endured personal tragedy when his 18-month old daughter died of SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome. Cordero, a first-round draft pick by the Montreal Expos in 2003, finished his career with 128 saves, 113 of them coming in a Nationals uniform – 87 more than Matt Capps, who is second on the team’s all-time list. Chad Cordero on retirement, his future and wanting to play for the Nationals Chad Cordero had been thinking about retiring for a few weeks. His comeback had taken him to independent ball, the St. Paul Saints. His surgically repaired shoulder had not been right for three years, and he still could not get his arm to feel the way he wanted it. He missed his family. “It’s never easy to say you’re going to retire,” Cordero said today in a telephone conversation. “But I had been thinking about it for a while. It was a fairly easy decision. But it’s just tough to actually say, ‘My career is done and I’m going to move on.’ ” Cordero made it official yesterday. The former Nationals closer, whose 2005 season owns an indelible place in D.C. baseball history, ended his last attempt at a comeback by retiring at 29. “Just too hard to be away from the family,” Cordero said. “It just made it too hard to be away from the family, especially after what I went through with my daughter this offseason. That combined with my arm just wasn’t working the way it used to. It was time move on to the rest of my life.” Cordero wants to coach, with no specific goal in mind other than remaining in baseball. “I still love the game, and I still want to be a part of it,” he said. “I’m open to anything.” Cordero’s break with the Nationals in 2008 was messy, with General Manager Jim Bowden announcing on the radio – before telling Cordero and in the middle of the season – that the Nationals would not tender him a contract. Still, Cordero made peace with the situation and even hoped for a return to the Nationals. “Even after I left, I still wanted to come back,” Cordero said. “It was tough to go through how I had to leave, deep down I always wanted to come back and play there one more year. Who knows? Maybe I’ll come back and visit a couple times, go down on the field. My wife and I, we still love the city. I still love that organization.” Cordero looks most fondly upon 2005, when he saved 47 games and finished fifth in the Cy Young voting. Cordero remembers it not for what he did, but for how the city responded to its first baseball team in decades. “It wasn’t just because I had a successful season,” Cordero said. “That was the first year baseball was back. It was just a magical year for that entire team. Living in that city for four years was great. I still miss that place.” Cordero carried an unusually large burden during Nationals tenure. From 2005 to 2007, he appeared in 218 games and pitched 222 2/3 innings. The wear showed when he underwent major shoulder surgery at the outset of the 2008 season. He was never the same since, but already he has made peace with that, too. “I may have struggled my last year or so. I’m not going to worry about that, ” Cordero said. “I had a really good career. It was shortened by injuries. But I had a really good time playing. Baseball, I still love it. I just kind of lost that edge as a player. I still love the game.” --

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