Roy Halladay retiring with Blue Jays

ByABC News
December 9, 2013, 12:42 PM

— -- Two-time Cy Young Award winner Roy Halladay will announce his retirement Monday afternoon after signing a one-day contract with the Toronto Blue Jays, his first big league team. 

The Blue Jays announced a 12:30 p.m. ET news conference at the winter meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

Halladay, a free agent, missed much of the 2013 season after having surgery on his shoulder in May to repair a partially torn rotator cuff and remove a bone spur. He also had some fraying of the labrum.

"Roy is one of the most professional and dominant pitchers of his generation, and the Toronto Blue Jays are very proud and honored that he will retire as a member of our organization," Blue Jays president and CEO Paul Beeston said in a statement. "His talent and determination led our club for many years on the field and his work ethic provided an example for all to follow.

"He also contributed generously in the community, through the Jays Care Foundation and his own initiatives like 'Doc's Box' for patients at Hospital for Sick Children to attend games," Beeston said. "Congratulations to Roy on a tremendous career."

Halladay's career has spanned 16 seasons, the last four of which he spent with the  Philadelphia Phillies. He finishes with a 203-105 career record and a 3.38 ERA.

Halladay garnered the AL Cy Young in 2003 with Toronto after posting career highs with 22 wins and 266 innings pitched. He won the NL award in 2010, his first season with the Phillies, when he went 21-10 with a 2.44 ERA.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.