LOS ANGELES
, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Jeff Kent plans to retire after a 17-year major league baseball career.
MLB.com reported the 40-year-old Kent will make his decision final at news conference Thursday.
The 2000 National League MVP ends his career with a .290 career batting average
, 377 home runs, 1
,518 RBI
, and a .500 slugging percentage.
Kent hit 351 home runs while he played second base
, 74 more than the next closest second baseman
, former Chicago Cubs great and hall of famer Ryne Sandberg.
Last season
, Kent became the first 40-year-old in Dodgers history to go into a season as a starting position player.
"They don't have my stats on a World Series ring
," Kent once told the Los Angeles Times about not having played in a Fall Classic with the club. "They usually put the wins and losses
, but they don't put the stats."
He was a five-time All-Star and won the Silver Slugger award four times.
