The game he played and excelled at since he was a kid chewed him up and spit him out last April, Ty Buttrey walking away from baseball three days after his 28th birthday because, as he wrote in an Instagram post, he “completely lost the drive to continue doing something that I didn’t love.” It took the exuberance of a …
Angels reliever Ty Buttrey announced Saturday that he is leaving baseball, explaining in an almost 600-word statement posted to Instagram that he had lost his love for the sport and was ready to go a different direction in life. A mainstay in the Angels’ bullpen since his major league debut in 2018, Buttrey failed to make the opening day roster …
