After 19 seasons in the majors -- 17 of them with the Boston Red Sox -- knuckleballer Tim Wakefield will announce his retirement from baseball Friday afternoon. Wakefield will hold a 5 p.m. ET news conference at JetBlue Park, the team's new spring training facility. The 45-year-old Wakefield will walk away with 186 victories with the Red Sox, just six short of the team record shared by Cy Young and Roger Clemens. He recorded his 200th career victory late last season. Read more: http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/7585718/tim-wakefield-retire-17-seasons-boston-red-sox
