Veteran third baseman Evan Longoria is officially calling it a career. MLB announced Monday that Longoria is retiring after 16 seasons and will sign a ceremonial one-day contract with the Tampa Bay Rays on June 7 to end his career with the team with which he began.

Evan Longoria will sign a one-day contract with Tampa Bay and officially retire as a Ray on June 7. The greatest player in franchise history didn’t play last season after spending the 2023 season in Arizona but never officially retired.

Evan Longoria never really got a chance to say goodbye as a player. He didn’t know that his last game with the Rays would come on Oct. 1, 2017, before they traded him to the Giants that December. He d