Wainwright + Molina: Help Plz + Bonus Trivia

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Help me out here.



These guys are currently the 1 (Yadi) and 2 (Wainwright) longest-serving players in MLB, AND have been teammates for 17 years (Molina debuted in 04, Wainwright in 05) AND have never played a game for any other franchise.



I'm trying to find a list of other duos in baseball history that fit the latter 2 distinctions (played entire careers with 1 franchise AND had concurrent tenures with another 1-franchise player for 17 seasons or more).



For whatever reason google's not giving me that.



Just eyeballing a Wikipedia site of players with careers of 10-years or more with only 1 franchise (there's only 185 of them) the longest teammate stretch I can find is

19 years: Trammel-Whitaker (77-95)

19 years: Jeter+Rivera

17 years: Clemente & Mazeroski (56-72)

17 years: Gantner+Yount (76-92)

17 years: Jeter+Posada; Rivera+Posada



--am I overlooking others?



I can tell you why I need to know this soon.



BONUS TRIVIA: Name the Mets duo who were only Mets, had careers or 10 years or more, and were teammates for the most seasons. Names and number of years must be correct

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ed Kranepool (17) and Ron Hodges (12). Seven of those years overlapped.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Ed Kranepool (17) and Ron Hodges (12). Seven of those years overlapped.

You win. My other question remains!

[Edgy MD]

Bench and Concepción.



OE: Not quite.

[Edgy MD]

Belanger and Palmer. BAM!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Edgy MD wrote: Belanger and Palmer. BAM!

Nope--Belanger played his final season with the Dodgers!



This part isn't really trivia, because I also don't know the answer. I was just hoping oneayou knew a way to query bbr for this kinda shit

[Edgy MD]

Fuckin' Dodgers. I had no idea!

[Edgy MD]

An interesting unintentional outcome of recognizing Negro League service as Major League service is that many players who had previously been understood as single-MLB-franchise players no longer so qualify.

[Edgy MD]

Figured out one: George Brett and Frank White.



Jim Gantner, man. Who knew?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Mickey Mantle (51-68) and Whitey Ford (50-67) would've also had this record at 17 years but a year after Ford debuted in 1950, he missed the next two seasons due to the Korean War. Otherwise, they would've been teammates from '51-'67.



They were teammates for 15 years (53-67).

[DocTee]

Ryan Zimmermann (17) and Stephen Strasburg (12) might make it to your list one day. I suppose lots of duos might, but they probably have the best shot?

[MFS62]

When I see those two names in a thread title, I was hoping it would be about [CROSSOUT]a Duaner Sanchez- type incident[/CROSSOUT] mutual retirement.



Later

[stevejrogers]

=DocTee post_id=94913 time=1654518132 user_id=85]
Ryan Zimmermann (17) and Stephen Strasburg (12) might make it to your list one day. I suppose lots of duos might, but they probably have the best shot?

[Edgy MD]

So, the best shot then belongs to Alonso and McNasty?

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: So, the best shot then belongs to Alonso and McNasty?

DeGrom and McNeil pre-date that pair by one year, so that duo is (hopefully, considering DeGrom's age and injuries) also a remote possibility.



Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Conforto hasn't been eliminated from this category yet.

[seawolf17]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Conforto hasn't been eliminated from this category yet.

He has, because he's not teammates with any Mets this season. (If he was on the roster or the DL, then I'd say yes.)

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

So I can now reveal why I asked this question... was assigned a quick thing on this campaign for work and was embargoed till this morning.



Here's the money shot. I know these guys have a lotta blue and orange blood on their hands but this made me feel good as a baseball fan



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[Edgy MD]

Did Brett and White make the cut?



I'm still getting used to the idea that active players are allowed to do beer ads.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I don't know if there was ever a full on ban preventing active players from doing beer ads but players were banned from wearing their uniforms while doing those ads. That's probably still true.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Edgy MD wrote: Did Brett and White make the cut? I'm still getting used to the idea that active players are allowed to do beer ads.

I was not able to get definitive in my question so I said these guys were "among" storied one-team-only teammates like Brett & White; Jeter + Rivera and Trammel-Whitaker. Story is here, don;t think it's paywalled but probably registration-walled. I get extra kudos when my links turn into registrations so if you wanna, have at it-- https://adage.com/article/marketing-news-strategy/budweiser-campaign-salutes-mlbs-yadier-molina-adam-wainwright/2419336https://adage.com/article/marketing-news-strategy/budweiser-campaign-salutes-mlbs-yadier-molina-adam-wainwright/2419336

I don't know if there was ever a full on ban preventing active players from doing beer ads but players were banned from wearing their uniforms while doing those ads. That's probably still true.

Explains why they're only shown having beer in street clothes--plus from an ad perspective, turns them from supermen to regular beer-drinking guys like you and me.



Campaign btw is associated with a free baseball trip giveaway sweepstakes for "National Best Friends Day" this week.

[Frayed Knot]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=94961 time=1654531646 user_id=68] I don't know if there was ever a full on ban preventing active players from doing beer ads but players were banned from wearing their uniforms while doing those ads. That's probably still true.

Explains why they're only shown having beer in street clothes--plus from an ad perspective, turns them from supermen to regular beer-drinking guys like you and me.