Free Agent’s Wife Has Hilarious Response to the Idea of Her Husband Closing

Lance Lynn, closer?
Some teams are reportedly receptive to the idea of using the 37-year-old right-hander out of the bullpen, even though he hasn’t regularly pitched in relief in more than a decade.
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Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reported Thursday that Lynn’s agent, Kevin Lustig, has heard from “several” clubs asking if his client would be interested in pitching the ninth inning.
“I went, ‘Oooooh. Is the second act, the final act of my career, closing games?’ It sounds fun,” Lynn told Rosenthal. “I was kind of joking with my wife about it. She was like, ‘Cool, I don’t have to be at the start of games. I can just come halfway through and watch you at the end.’ “
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As a rookie with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2011, Lynn started two games and relieved another 16, recording one save. Almost 14 years later, that remains the only save of his career.
Last year Lynn found himself back in St. Louis on a one-year, $10 million contract. The Cardinals exercised their $1 million buyout after Lynn went 7-4 with a 3.84 ERA, making 23 starts and pitching 117.1 innings.
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That was the fewest innings Lynn has pitched in a non-pandemic season since he lost all of the 2016 campaign to Tommy John surgery.
Lynn made two trips to the injured list last year because of inflammation in his right knee. Since then he said he’s lost 20 pounds, dropping from 280 to 260, in hopes of staying on the field more in 2025.
Setting aside the season lost to Tommy John, Lynn has been baseball’s most durable starter over the last decade. He is 143-99 with a 3.74 ERA in 13 seasons (2011-24) with the Cardinals, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers.
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In a three-year stretch from 2019-21, Lynn had an oustanding 3.26 ERA (3.39 FIP) in 74 starts for the Rangers and White Sox, collecting downballot Cy Young Award votes after each season. In 2021, he made an All-Star team for the first time since 2012, logging a career-low 2.69 ERA for the White Sox.
Lynn’s All-Star days as a starter might be behind him, but it sounds as if he’s content to fade into the sunset of a long career as a closer.
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