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Ex-Red Sox Homegrown Talent, All-Star, Retires After 14-Season Career

The oft-injured shortstop is hanging up his cleats

Scott Neville

Ex-Red Sox Homegrown Talent, All-Star, Retires After 14-Season Career
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A former homegrown talent of the Boston Red Sox announced his retirement after a long and largely successful career in baseball.

Veteran shortstop Jed Lowrie posted a long message on Instagram to thank the organizations and fans that supported him throughout a career that spanned across three decades. 

The 38-year-old was drafted in the first round of the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft by the Red Sox and instantly became one of the more prominent players in the farm system.

Lowrie hit .253 with 81 extra-base hits, 19 home runs, 117 RBIs and a .732 OPS in 256 games across four seasons with Boston to kickstart his career. The switch-hitting middle infielder missed large chunks of time with the Red Sox, a trend that would, unfortunately, follow him throughout his career. 

Lowrie would go on to make two stints with the Houston Astros and Oakland Athletics and spent a total of nine games with the New York Mets. The bulk of his career was with the Athletics, which is where he finished after a brutal -- likely eye-opening -- 2022 season that led him to hang up his cleats. 

I'm sure the slugger would have liked to end his career in a better fashion but his career on the whole will give him plenty of fond memories to look back on. 

Lowrie alluded to looking for "new opportunities in the game" at the end of his announcement. It sounds like the journeyman will consider coaching or possibly some sort of front-office work. 

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Scott Neville
SCOTT NEVILLE

Scott Neville covers the Boston Red Sox for Sports Illustrated's new page "Inside The Red Sox." Before starting "Inside The Red Sox", Neville attended Merrimack College, where he earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Media with a minor in Marketing. Neville spent all four years with Merrimack's radio station WMCK, where he grew as a radio/podcast host and producer.  His propensity for being in front of a microphone eventually expanded to film, where he produced multiple short films alongside his then-roommate and current co-worker Stephen Mottram. On a journey that began as a way to receive easy credits via film classes, he received a call from "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" star Charlie Day. Day advised him to make a feature-length film, which he completed his senior year. While writing the film, Neville completed an internship for United Way as part of their NFL Partnership Program. Neville ran the blog for a team of interns and hosted an internet show called "United Way's NFL Partnership Series" where he interviewed NFL alumni. After college Neville wrote for SB Nation's "Over The Monster," a Red Sox sister site of the flagship brand. His work would eventually lead him to a job as a content producer with NESN, where he would cover all sports. After developing as a writer with the top regional network in the world, he was given the opportunity to join the Sports Illustrated Media Group in his current endeavor as the publisher of "Inside The Red Sox." The successful launch and quick rise of "Inside The Red Sox" led to Neville joining the Baseball Essential ownership group, a national baseball site under SIMG. Follow him on Twitter: @ScottNeville46 Email: nevilles@merrimack.edu

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