Name A Player Who....

Reggie Jackson- Orioles.
 
Dante Bichette's career cracks me up tbh

the guy played in the big leagues for 14 years, finished runner-up for the NL MVP in 1995, hit .299, had a career .835 OPS but only has a 5.6 bWAR. Coors inflated numbers + bad defense
 
Orioles Sosa was not very good, not to mention their outfield and bench were pretty lousy. They may have had big names, but they finished 10th in the AL in runs scored

Matt Stairs... I knew he played for quite a few teams but I didn't realize that he played for 12 different teams (in fact, I had no idea he was once on the Red Sox)
yeah, i was 13 and pretty baseball illiterate

i didn't pay attention to shit like defense, pitching, walks, etc. Shit, even singles annoyed me. I wanted extra base hits + homers. I was also into big names + that O's team had it. of course, then the calendar hit June and the O's were exposed as frauds

and yes, Baltimore Sosa was awful
 
Player movement in MLB really isn't a new phenomenon.

Nolan Ryan played for four different franchises.
 
Joe Morgan, Astros
 
Darryl Strawberry - Giants
 
Pudge Rodriguez - Yankees

also Canseco - white sox
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Not really qualifying but forget sometimes that Griffey went back to Seattle.

And when he did Gregg Doyel wrote a column boohooing about it and got e-murdered for it :laugh:
 
Yeah but he was at least correct about the Expos being the "best" answer :wink:

I think this works best with well known names who didn't play on too many teams where the team in question isn't at the end of the career (not a "he used to be great!" kinda deal). Reggie Jackson as an Oriole comes to mind.

Reggie Jackson- Orioles.


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