Lance Lynn is looking to play a 15th season, has dropped 20 pounds to put some ease on his knees.

Now a free agent, a lighter Lance Lynn looks to extend his MLB career into a 15th season

Lynn, 37, became a free agent when the St. Louis Cardinals declined his $12 million club option. Since his debut in 2011, he ranks sixth in the majors with 2,006 1/3 innings pitched, behind only Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander, Zack Greinke, Clayton Kershaw and Madison Bumgarner. And like most players, Lynn wants to extend his career as long as possible.

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Home sweet home: Lynn continues Busch mastery in possible last start
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Home sweet home: Lynn continues Busch mastery in possible last start
September 18th, 2024
John Denton
John Denton

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ST. LOUIS – Taught for years to tune out the emotion of the moment, and instead focus solely on the task at hand, Lance Lynn went counter on to all that on Tuesday while pitching in what could have been his final start in a Cardinals uniform or for the final time at Busch Stadium.

What Lynn, 37, did on Tuesday was allow those emotions to fuel his fire, to help him ignore the pain in his balky right knee that was coursing through his right arm while shutting down the Pirates before a Busch Stadium crowd that included his wife, Dymin, three of his children, his father and brothers.

“You know, obviously, if this was your last start at Busch Stadium, you don’t want to lose – it was that simple,” said Lynn, who allowed just four hits and one earned run in the Cardinals’ 3-1 defeat of the Pirates. “I had my family here, brothers, dad and everybody here, so I couldn’t lose in front of them.”

Gruff and fiery on the exterior, Lynn has expressed privately to teammates and coaches how much it meant to him to be back with the Cardinals, the franchise that selected him 39th overall in the 2008 MLB Draft and the franchise he won a World Series with in 2011. Clearly in the later stages of a 13-year career that many doubted would ever last this long, Lynn has cherished hitting numerous milestones while wearing the birds on the bat across his chest for a second stint.