By Chris Dial
One baseball player trait fans admire is “played their whole career with the same team”. It is standard trivia to know Brooks Robinson and Carl Yastrzemski both spent their entire 23-year careers with the same team – that’s the record. There are 11 players, all in the Hall of Fame, that played in 20 or more seasons all with the same team, since integration.
We are all surprised to learn one of our favorites did not spend their whole career, and had a cup of coffee with another team. Always disappointing to hear.
Below 20 seasons, and it gets a little hit more miss with respect to greatness. There are 22 more players with 17-19 years with the same team, and 12 are in the HOF. The other 10 are very familiar names, some of whom will likely get elected to the HOF or were egregious errors not being in the HOF. These are names like Lou Whitaker, Yadier Molina, Todd Helton, who I would view as probable, with additional very good players, Dave Concepcion, Frank White, Jorge Posada, Adam Wainwright, Jim Gantner, and Bill Russell.
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