Miguel Rojas announces his retirement after

Miguel Rojas didn’t need to take his cleats off.

The veteran infielder stood by his locker at Dodger Stadium, his eyes crimson and watery, his uniform coated in grime, figuring out that when he pulled them off, it could be for the last time.

“This is it, guys,” he said, asserting his retirement, after the Dodgers have been swept by the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series on Thursday. “It’s been a lot, the last four years of my life here. And obviously making my debut here in 2014 changed my life, not just for me but for my whole family. They took care of my son, my daughter, my wife, and everybody in my family. It’s really amazing what I can think about, what happened to me and to my family the last few years.”

Rojas addressed the crew after the 6-4 loss to the Brewers. He said he was going to keep loyal to the Dodgers group but in a different function.

Rojas, 37, has a participant development function lined up, the first step in a post-playing profession that he hopes finally will land him in a supervisor’s seat.

“I just wanted to say thank you to all the veteran guys for allowing me to be myself when I got here, even though I didn’t play one game for the Los Angeles Dodgers for the last eight or nine years before I came here,” Rojas said. “They allowed me to be the leader that I wanted to be, the person that I wanted to change the culture and kind of give a little bit more of a culture, chemistry to the clubhouse. I feel like that is going to be a legacy that I wanted to leave here, other than my performance on the field. … I want them to remember me as a guy who always did everything possible to help my teammates win and to help the team get better every single day.”

Rojas put together a 13-year profession break up between the Dodgers and Miami Marlins. He had a profession .260 batting average, gained two World Series rings and three straight Roy Campanella Awards for his management in the Dodgers’ clubhouse.

“He built a legacy that we’ll be talking about Miguel Rojas for a long time,” veteran first baseman Freddie Freeman said. “He impacted [so] many people in this organization. I wish we could have gotten him a third one.”

After Rojas made his major league debut with the Dodgers in 2014, the crew traded him to the Marlins. He performed eight seasons there. Then in 2023, the Marlins traded him back to the Dodgers.

Rojas, a key contributor in the Dodgers’ back-to-back championship seasons, saved the Dodgers’ 2025 World Series with his Game 7 home run. He re-signed in December for what was anticipated to be his last season.

Right before the playoffs, Rojas, who is from Venezuela, took his U.S. citizenship check. He said the individual administering his interview didn’t understand he was a baseball participant until she requested who his employer was.

“I actually wanted it to be that way because I didn’t want to have any kind of preference or anything because this process has nothing to do with baseball,” he said last week. “I felt like, as a citizen, as a human being, I always wanted to be a good person off the field and not let my performance influence anything, because we all know how hard this game can be and how high you can be and how low you can be one day. I don’t want to be judged by my performance on the field. I want to be judged by the person I am and my preparation.”