By Matt Rappa, Sports Talk Philly editor 
After a 12-season career — including six seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies from 2010-2015 — outfielder Domonic Brown has left Major League Baseball.
The 2013 National League All-Star is not calling his professional career quits, however. On Sunday, March 4, Brown signed with the Mexican Baseball League's Sultanes de Monterrey.
Brown is coming off of a successful Mexican Pacific Winter League 2017-18 season, in which he slashed .317/.411/.506 in 45 games and 192 plate appearances with seven home runs and 23 runs-batted-in. Drawing no attention from big league clubs heading into March, and with Major League Baseball's larger-than-normal, prolonged free agency pool, Brown ultimately chose to stay in Mexico and embark on the next chapter of his career.
Brown marks the last of seven required foreign player contracts for the Sultanes. The 30-year-old joins fellow former big league-hopefuls in southpaws Luis Perez (33 years old) and Braulio Lara (29), right-handers Wirfin Obispo (33), Nick Struck (28) and Manny Acosta (36), and utility infielder Daniel Mayora (32).
Domonic Brown y Manny Acosta estirandose para comenzar el entrenamiento de hoy.#TodosSomosSultanes pic.twitter.com/6FDiVhBXhF
— #TodosSomosSultanes (@SultanesOficial) March 5, 2018
The Phillies drafted Brown in the 20th round of the 2006 amateur draft. In 458 games donning red pinstripes, the club's former top prospect slashed .247/.308/.407 with 52 home runs and 216 runs-batted-in. Brown failed twice at a comeback effort with the Toronto Blue Jays' and Colorado Rockies' Triple-A affiliates in 2016 and 2017, respectively. The Rockies released Brown on August 1 of last season, despite him slashing .317/.411/.506 in 45 games.
The Phillies and the Sultanes were recently in the news not too long ago. Three days after Brown's signing, then-16-year-old Sultanes RHP Manuel Urias inked a minor league pact with the Phillies.
