Lifers

[Guest Edgy DC]

There are currently twelve lifers in Major League Baseball. Each of these guys has had a big-league career of ten years or more, but only with one team.

Some are obvious. Some less so. Name them all.

[metirish]

Jeter - debut - 1995
Posada - debut - 1995
Mariano Rivera - debut - 1995

Andruw Jones - debut - 1996
Chipper Jones - debut 1993

[Guest Edgy DC]

Our Yankees/Braves fan is right on all five counts.

Seven more.

[metirish]

Those were the obvious ones.....

[Elster88]

Edgy DC wrote: Our Yankees/Braves fan is right on all five counts. Seven more.

He missed Smoltz. Not that I agree he is either a Yankee or a Brave fan

[metirish]

Jeter - debut - 1995
Posada - debut - 1995
Mariano Rivera - debut - 1995

Andruw Jones - debut - 1996
Chipper Jones - debut 1993

Jason Varitek - debut - 1997

Todd Helton - debut - 1997

Craig Biggio - debut - 1988

Ha,I did miss Smoltz...I'm done,I got my tough one with Tek...

[Farmer Ted]

Biggio

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Biggio

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Freaky.

[metirish]

Jeter - debut - 1995
Posada - debut - 1995
Mariano Rivera - debut - 1995

Andruw Jones - debut - 1996
Chipper Jones - debut 1993

Jason Varitek - debut - 1997

Todd Helton - debut - 1997

Craig Biggio - debut - 1988

Mike Sweeney - debut - 1995

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Torii Hunter?

[Guest Edgy DC]

metirish - Jeter

Correct. One.

metirish - Posada

Correct. Two.

metirish - Rivera

Correct. Three.

metirish - Andruw Jones

Correct. Four.

metirish - Chipper Jones

Correct. Five.

Elster88 - Smoltz.

Correct. Six.

metirish - Varitek

Correct. Seven.

metirish - Helton

Correct. Eight.

metirish - Biggio

Correct. Nine.

OlerudOwned - Freaky.

Incorrect.

Metirish - Sweeney

Correct. Ten.

OlerudOwned - Hunter

Correct. Eleven.

One remains.

[metsmarathon]

kerry wood?

[TransMonk]

Geoff Jenkins?

[Zvon]

Lance Berkman?

Hasnt played 10 yrs has he?

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Eric Chavez?

[Zvon]

Trevor Hoffman

[Guest OlerudOwned]

="Zvon"]Trevor Hoffman

He made his debut as, believe it or not, a Marlin. One of those pictures that just doesn't look right.

[metirish]

Hoffman played ofr FLA ..right coast though.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Garrett Anderson?

[metirish]

You can field a team with them

Jeter - SS
Varatek - C
Helton - 1B
Biggio - 2B
Jones - 3B
Jones - CF
Anderson - LF
Hunter - RF - he has played there
Sweeney - DH

Posada - C/DH

Rivera - P

[Guest Edgy DC]

Anderson completes our exercise.

Garret Anderson's crazy-looking stat line of 2007:

PA: 130
BA: .264
OBP: .265
SLG: .411
OPS: .676

That's an isolated OBP of an almost-impossible .001.

[nymr83]

1 walk and 2 sac flies according to baseball-reference. ouch.

[metsmarathon]

anaheim - garret anderson


edit... hmm... it appears as if my prior post was deleted, wherein i asked "hey, won't it be fun to name the longest tenured current lifers on all 30 teams?"

elsewise, edgy's quote below makes no sense, doesn't it?

[TransMonk]

Mets - Tom Glavine 2003

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mets: Reyes or Feliciano. Feliciano is controversial.
Braves we have.
Phillies: Burrell?

[Guest sharpie]

Smoltz and Varitek have never played for other major league teams but were acquired via trade by the Braves and Bosox respectively so they feel less like lifers to me than the others.

[metsmarathon]

mets: pedro feliciano* (or jose reyes & _____ _____)
phillies: pat burrell & _____ _____

* pedro feliciano debuted with the mets in 2002, but spent 2005 in japan. i'll claim that appearances in other leagues or other periods of time spent not under the control of the lifee franchise shall not be counted against the player, mostly as i don't feel much like doing all the fact-checking!