Randy Johnson announced his retirement from baseball after 22 seasons in the major leagues Tuesday evening.The towering, fearsome left-hander won five Cy Young Awards, including four straight from 1999-2002, and will finish his career with 303 wins. He is second on the all-time strikeout list with 4,875 and his strikeouts per nine innings pitched rate of 10.6 is the best ever.
He also won a World Series MVP with the Diamondbacks in 2001.
Johnson, who pitched for the Giants in 2009 and joined the 300-win club in May, announced his decision during a conference call with the media.
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