Sunday, September 22

Jaime Jarrín announces his retirement from the Dodgers: “The community has supported me all these years”

The elegant and unmistakable voice of Jaime Jarrín , the Spanish chronicler of the Dodgers since 1959, began to break a little with excitement that afternoon Tuesday in a phone call with Real America News while expressing appreciation to the Hispanic community of Southern California for their support throughout the decades.

“Without the support of our listeners, obviously, you will not get anywhere and I fully understand that the community has been what has sustained me all these years in front of the microphone “, Jarrín said in the interview. A few hours earlier, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced that the most iconic Ecuadorian in baseball and Los Angeles will retire at the end of the next season (2022) .

The Cooperstown Hall of Fame member who is nearing the end of his campaign 63 as narrator of the Dodgers, he said he had been thinking about retirement for months who made the decision for family reasons.

Team announcer and Cooperstown Hall of Famer Jaime Jarrín announced today that he will be retiring after of the season of 2022, which will be your 64 ta campaign with the organization. pic.twitter.com/C0QuT4GeaW

— Los Dodgers (@LosDodgers) September 28, 2021

Jaime Jarrín wants to travel around the world with their children

“Admitting that we have to make changes, I believe that priorities change, I think the time has come for me to dedicate more time to the family “, said Jarrín From your home. “They have been my priorities, the Dodgers and my family. Now it will be family and Dodgers. ”

Specifically, the man who this December will meet 86 year-old plans to spend more time with his sons Jorge – who earlier this year announced his retirement as storyteller of the Dodgers where he worked alongside his legendary father- and Mauricio, in addition to his grandchildren.

“They totally agree with what I decide: if I want to continue with the Dodgers they are totally supporting me , but if I leave the Dodgers they will logically be happy because I will leave a vacation from 64 years with the Dodgers, because I have always considered my job a vacation, not a job, “said the man who has narrated 30 World Series, no-hit, no-run games , including three perfect games.

“They are happy because they know that we are going to travel so much here in the country to states they do not know such as Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, Maine and South Florida, and then travel abroad. ”

Jaime Jarrín, who in February 2019 lost his wife Blanca , said that wants to go with their children to countries in Europe and the Far East .

In this process of making the decision to “hang up” the microphone, Jarrín also consulted with Vin Scully, baseball’s most legendary storyteller, who in turn retired a few years ago to leave Jaime as the longest-serving active chronicler of all Major League Baseball.

“We have been great friends for many years and I had to ask him and tell him, and he totally agreed that if he wanted to leave the Dodge rs was a positive step ”, revealed Jarrín. “ I never thought to reach Vin’s record of 67 years with the Dodgers , I will fall short in three seasons, but happy that he is still the only one in that regard.

The second half of the @ Dodgers legendary broadcast team, Jaime Jarrín will retire after the 2022 season. Jarrín is the longest-tenured broadcaster in @ MLB . He’s been the voice of the Dodgers Spanish broadcasting since 1959. Next season will be his 64 th w the Dodgers. # ITFDB pic.twitter.com/7zDeCfQmYk

— the Word Rev (@ohca 69 ) September 28, 2021

This is how Jarrín wants Dodgers fans to remember him

Jarrín will complete the current Dodgers season in which the team is the biggest favorite to the championship and then in 2022 will live his farewell campaign only from the broadcast booth at Dodger Stadium, because pointed out that he will not work in the team’s tour games .

“I know that my voice will fail in the last transmission I do, it is logical, because I will be quite excited because it will be my last transmission , eg ro things have to come when they have to, ”he told Real America News about his final goodbye to the Dodgers broadcasts.

“I don’t know yet what it will be like, but I just want people to remember me as someone who by 64 years gave everything he had within reach , all the talent to serve them, because I believe that each transmission is not only a matter of recounting what happens in the field, but is a recreation for the public, particularly parents who arrive tired to home after a tiring day at work and what better way than to give them something to entertain them.

“So my transmissions have been a public service and I hope everyone takes it in that sense,” said Jarrín, whose name was added by the Dodgers in their ‘Ring of Honor’ in 2018 .

The maximum moment of the Ecuadorian narrator with the Dodgers

“ It is impossible to put into words what Jaime means for the Dodgers organization ,” he said in a statement Stan Kasten, the CEO and president of the Dodgers. “For more than six decades he has brought his signature narratives of baseball’s greatest moments while serving the Dodgers and Los Angeles with grace, integrity and class. Jaime was an integral piece in introducing the Dodgers to Los Angeles and giving a voice to the Hispanic stars of the franchise. ”

Jaime Jarrín, who said he will never forget the first Dodgers game that reported at the Memorial Coliseum in 1959 before 75, 000 spectators , and who could narrate the exploits of great Dodgers such as Willie Davis, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, gained special national and international notoriety in 1981.

That year the call exploded “Fernandomanía ”, Which by the way is fulfilling 40 years , and it was Jaime Jarrín who helped Fernando Valenzuela in his interactions with the media, in addition to obviously reporting for fans of the Dodgers the historic achievements of the “Bull.”

“The most brilliant chapter, I would say,” said Jarrín about that part of his titanic career. “Year 81, particularly where a boy from Mexico came to cause a general commotion in baseball , not just here in Los Angeles, but across the country. Year 81 It is a year that I always have in my mind ”.

That boy from Mexico who caused madness in Los Angeles, the United States and Mexico in 1981 was fortunate, fortunate to meet Jaime Jarrín, the legendary chronicler with whom he still shares broadcasts today.