New York Yankees shortstop Troy Tulowitzki announced his retirement via a statement that he released through the Yankees on Thursday afternoon, per Mark Feinsand of MLB Network:

Tulowitzki played just five games for the Yankees before suffering a left calf strain, and a setback would see him transferred to the 60-day Injured List.

With no timetable for return and a slew of injuries in recent years, the 13-year veteran will call it a career. Though he is likely to go down as one of the definitive shortstops of the late 2000s and early 2010s, the label of “what could have been” will also follow Tulowitzki into retirement.

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Tulowitzki made his debut with the Colorado Rockies in 2006 and almost immediately became a franchise cornerstone. In his first full season, Tulo finished second in the National League Rookie of the Year Award voting. By his fourth season, he was a perennial MVP candidate.

Yet for all of his excellence, injuries always seemed to follow Tulowitzki. After his rookie season, he would never play more than 151 games in a season, twice failing to even reach 100 games played. He won multiple Gold Glove and Silver Slugger awards at the shortstop position, but the durability questions were always present.

By the time the Rockies traded Tulowitzki to the Toronto Blue Jays in 2015, he was already entering the tail end of his career, though he likely did not know it yet. Tulowitzki would miss nearly 100 games in 2017 and all of 2018 due to injury, and this latest setback in New York was the final straw.

Tulowitzki finishes his career with a 44.2 bWAR as well as a career slash of .290/.361/.495, and he is undoubtedly one of the most dynamic talents the shortstop position has ever seen. It is just too bad we did not get to see more of Tulo, in general.