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Szczur announced Monday via his personal Twitter account that he has elected to retire from professional baseball.
A fifth-round pick of the Cubs in the 2010 first-year player draft, Szczur reached the big leagues for the first time in 2014 and spent parts of five seasons in the big leagues with Chicago and San Diego. The 32-year-old outfielder hadn't appeared in the majors since 2018 and posted a .618 OPS at the Triple-A level in the St. Louis organization in 2021, so his decision to step away from the game doesn't come as a major surprise. He retires with a .231/.312/.355 slash line and 12 home runs over 667 career big-league plate appearances. Szczur won his lone World Series ring as a member of the Cubs in 2016.
