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Former Orioles outfielder Nick Markakis is retiring, ending a 15-year career that spanned the Orioles’ competitive renaissance and ended with the Atlanta Braves. Markakis debuted at age 22 with the Orioles in 2006 and spent nine seasons as a durable right fielder for the club, batting .290 with a .793 OPS and winning two Gold Glove awards. In his final season, 2014, Markakis was an everyday player for a team that won 96 games to claim the American League East division title and ultimately reached the American League Championship Series.

The Orioles, though, had questions about how healthy he would be the rest of his career and didn’t sign him back once he hit free agency after that playoff run. Markakis instead joined the Atlanta Braves and proved those concerns to be unfounded. He played no fewer than 156 games in a season in his initial four-year contract there, and made his first All-Star appearance in 2018 at Nationals Park. He added his third Gold Glove and a Silver Slugger award that year. The 15-year big-league veteran finished with 2,388 hits and 189 home runs in his career. - Baltimore Sun, March 2021

His 2008 season was great but was utterly unappreciated and forgotten. Nick Markakis led the American League in WAR with 7.4 and did not receive an MVP vote, make the All-Star team, win a Silver Slugger or take home a Gold Glove. For a long time and until 2018, he was also the answer to the fun fact of who had the highest career WAR without ever having received an MVP vote. Finally in Atlanta, he finished 18th in the NL vote.

Made a facegen for him. The "before" I have is not from the CU Faceback (which indeed has him missing) but rather is from the ship-with-the-game faces from a couple years ago when he was active. He was a beard guy in Atlanta but having seen him in the AL East for many years, he was more of a forgot-to-shave kind of guy.