MLB trivia
 

16 current MLB players have played their whole careers for only one team, and have been with that one team for 10+ seasons. How many can you name?

This could be looked up easily, hopefully noone cheats.

I wanna say Brad Radke for this, he has to be close to 10 years if he isn't there yet. I also think Bernie Williams would be one.

Dola:

Does anyone know if Jeter has 10 years exp?

Jeter is close...

I don't know if Bagwell actually played for the Red Sox...

Biggio has gotta' be...

Derek Jeter
Bernie Williams
Brad Radke
Craig Biggio
Jeff Bagwell

all are on the list, 11 more to go.

Chipper Jones
Andruw Jones

Smoltz

Garrett Anderson
Frank Thomas

Smoltz was a Tiger, no?

Is Trevor Hoffman still in SD?

Yes

Mariano Rivera

Mariano Rivera

Smoltz is on the list
Chipper Jones is there too

9 to go

Andruw Jones falls 1 year short (this season doesn't count, sorry, didn't realize they were not including it)

Garret Anderson, Trevor Hoffman, Frank Thomas and Mariano Rivera are all there.

5 to go

I think this is Andruw's 10th season, so I'm not sure he qualifies.

Mike Sweeney

Sweeney is there

4 left

I think Sweeney's on his 10th or 11th season here in KC.

Speaking of Yankees, has Posada played 10+ seasons?

SI

Todd Helton, [edit]no not enough years.

Of course, Dan Wilson, a Barrington boy

Who played with Cincy...disregard

Jorge Posada is there

Helton is not

3 left

Are Todd Helton or Torii Hunter at 10 yet?

SI

Frank Thomas?

Nevermind. Didn't see him up there.

Abreu?

SI

Helton, no
Torii, no
Frank Thomas, yes

2 left

Has Kirk Reuter played anywhere but the Giants? I'm pretty sure he's been around long enough.

SI

Frank Thomas was already counted.

Bobby Higginson

Abreu, no
Reuter, no

Sorry, I made a mistake in my counting somewhere, actually 3 guys are left

aha, thats where I counted wrong.

Higginson is also there. just 2 guys left then

Was Mike Lieberthal always a Phil?

He was in Montreal I think..

Lieberthal is there.

1 remaining

Higginson in Detroit? I think he started with them ...
NM, already listed ... posts coming fast in this thread.

Wonder if Graves would have been on that list up until a couple of weeks ago.

Darren Erstad?

Erstad, no

Trot Nixon?

Is Tim Salmon officially retired yet? If he's still just DLed, I'll guess him.

Salmon is correct, and is the last on the list

The final list is
Biggio 17
Smoltz 16
Big Hurt 15
Bernie 14
Bagwell 14
Salmon 13
Trevor Hoffman 12
Chipper 11
Lieberthal 11
Garret A 11
Radke 10
Rivera 10
Posada 10
Sweeney 10
Higginson 10
Jeter 10

Well, this was fun

Darren Dreifort
Luis Castillo

Hoffman shouldn't be on the list. He played in 28 games for the Marlins in his first year, 1993, before being dealt in the Sheffield deal.

http://www.baseballreference.com/h/hoffmtr01.shtml

I vote we replace him with Darren Dreifort.

Good catch. I was simply going with
this list provided by ESPN.com

I guess Dreifort isn't on the list because he didn't appear in any games in '95, or '02. So despite being with LA for 11 seaons, he has only played 9.


Speaking of Dreifort though, the guy has made roughly $43 million over the past 4 seaons, and won just 9 games, only pitching about 205 innings.

Maybe ESPN considers a "lifer" as a guy who's spent at least 10 years with one team, even if it's not his only team, although I doubt it. I don't really trust ESPN.com's accuracy with these types of things anymore.

It's amazing to see the Yankees, with all of their free agent signings and frequent trade deadline dealings, to have 25% of the lifers.

Fooking ESPN !

Though the only reason I thought about it is because either last week or earlier this week I was watching a either a Padres game (I believe... it was on INHD channel, IIRC) and they were discussing how Hoffman was included in the Sheffield deal.

Though with ESPN, you never have a clue what you are going to get.

Of course the funny part is in ESPN's stat listing of Hoffman, they do have his time as a Marlin. It would be cheap if they considered him with only the Padres, since he was traded as a rookie.

But every single one of them is overpaid so it's kindof an unfair characterization. It's like the "homegrown" Yankees myth from the late 90s. No other team is insane enough to pay Jeter $17M or Williams $12M. Their idea of a "hometown" contract is Rivera at $10M and Posada at $10M, only somewhat above market value. I bet if the A's were clinically insane and had a near limitless bankroll, they could have offered $110M to Giambi too and had yet another "lifer".

SI

Abreu was an Astro, silly. They left him unprotected in the expansion draft so that they could protect a young Richard Hidalgo... :rolleyes: