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Longtime Phillies Shortstop Officially Retires After 19 Years in Baseball

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A former Phillies shortstop has officially called it a career after 19 years in professional baseball. He spent 10 seasons in the big leagues.

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Table of ContentsEmotional message from Freddy GalvisCareer of the Venezuelan player in MLB After several years of service and work at the highest level it is common for an athlete to decide to retire and thus continue with his life from another plane. It was precisely that what the Venezuelan player Freddy Galvis announced in the middle of the day of July 4 and after 19 years of being active as a professional baseball player.

Through an emotional video published on his social networks this Friday, in which he recalled his best career moves both in Major League Baseball and in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League, Freddy Galvis made his retirement from baseball official at 35 years of age, just three months before the start of the 2025-26 season of the Creole Winter Ball, in which he was expected to re-uniform with the Zulia Eagles. He was born in Punto Fijo, F…

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River County News broke the news in Hardin, United States on Friday, July 4, 2025.
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