Three months after Cardinals fans voted him into the storied franchise’s HOF, the team announced Saturday that the 2011 World Series MVP would withdraw his candidacy.
“This is something that I have given an extreme amount of thought to, humbly, even before the voting process began,” Freese said in a statement released by the team. “I am aware of the impact I had helping the team bring great memories to the city I grew up in, including the 11th championship, but this honor means more to me.”
Freese grew up in the St. Louis area and spent the first five seasons of his 11-year career with the Cardinals. Freese hit .286/.356/.427 with 44 home runs over that period, making an All-Star appearance in 2012. Freese is best known for his heroics in Game 6 of the 2011 World Series, when, with the Cardinals down 3-2 series and down to their last strike in the ninth inning, he tied the game with a two-run triple and then won the game in the 11th inning on a walk-off home run.But a troubled past in Mound City may be keeping him from accepting the team’s highest honors.“I was depressed. I was always depressed,’’ Freese said at the time.
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