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On January 26th, 34-year-old Red Sox firstbaseman and New Jersey native Sean Casey officially announced his retirement, after just over 10 full major league seasons. 
The early retiree was signed with Boston last year to a 1-year, $800K contract. 
Although logging over 5000 ABs and achieving career batting stats of .302 / .367 / .447, Casey was never paid more than $8.5M in a single season. 
His award roll shows All Star selections in 1999, 2001, and 2004. 
Parsing through the details of his benchmark .302 career batting average, Sean managed notably consistent splits:  vs lefty/vs righty, day/night, home/away, April through September, pre/post All Star break - all of these are consisent with his career average. 
His situational numbers tell an… (more…)