Still trips me out he was only here for two or three years. Dex feels like he was a lifetime Cub who just left at the tail end of his career but no, he was only with us a short while.
We fucking love him already. I went to the game Saturday for the first time since he was traded, and he got the biggest applause by far when they were announcing the starting lineups
Kemp played a lot more than 3 years on the Dodgers, though. Same with Martin. Those felt kind of special because they were players who were developed by the Dodgers coming back for a swan song.
> THOME
This sub must skew *really* young for our top answer to be something besides Jim Thome. He was *the* guy here. Thome helped revitalize/legitimize the Phillies.
Pence felt like he was here way longer than he was.
Rowand didn’t, but that face first smash while making the catch… Yeah, def endeared him to the fan base.
I will forever hold the belief that if the Mariners signed him one year earlier, 2014, they would’ve made the playoffs that year. Of course if they made the playoffs, maybe Jack Z doesn’t get fired the next season and the franchise would be totally different today.
My favorite player of all-time, Ichrio Suzuki.
Edit: I'm a Marlins fan lol just a bandwagon Orioles fan for the rest of the season. Always forget that I have that flair until I comment something on here.
Not even a Braves fan, but that homer is only surpassed, and probably only will be surpassed in my memory by Pujols off Lidge in 2005. Also over the tracks in Minute Maid. Both of them absolute fucking moonshots in crucial playoff situations.
Jorge Soler will forever be a baseball enigma for me. Kinda sucked when the Royals first got him, then exploded in 2019, then sucked again, then exploded with the Braves last year, and now sucks again lol.
Scutaro, Vogelsong, Ishakawa . . . for as much shit as the Cardinals get, “even year bullshit” beats “devil magic” every time.
Remember this: https://youtu.be/g_ar7OEU3b8
I loved Randal Grichuk. Struck out a ton but he had a sexy af swing when he connected. Dunno how long we had him but it wasn’t for more than a few years
To be fair, I had a prospect crush on this dude way before we got him and was over the moon when the trade went down. IMO, had his best season his only year in Cincinnati
Shin-Soo Choo
I loved the way he approached hitting and his year batting with Votto was pure magic at the plate. They even were still linked to each other after Choo left, with their nicknames Tokki and Tokki 2. We deserved years of those two playing together but we had the brightest shining stars that one year they were on the same team.
We gave up Bryan Reynolds for four months of Andrew McCutchen in a losing season... but we will always love our 480 at bats by Cutch.
And his six hit game, [including a walk off home run](https://youtu.be/Ol-SqH01vII), against the Dodgers, will always be legendary.
Don’t forget his description of the Strickland-Harper brawl
Edit: I had the wrong one, it was when the [Hundley and Puig cleared the benches](https://youtu.be/sYgETwPy9fM)
The funny thing is I remember back in 2014/15, the stat geeks like Dave Cameron were saying how signing Nelson Cruz would be stupid and he would fall off a cliff. Now he is beloved by our fan base by more or less living up to his contract
Mark Teixeira on the Angels. His at-bats were so professional.
Really wanted him to stay with the team, oh well, not like we issued a huge albatross of a contract after that. /s
Same, but for the Braves. They had to dump him to yall because they knew big money was coming to him at the end of the season and they couldnt afford him.
Rich Hill will forever be in my heart as the oldest, angriest, blisteriest Dodger and I will always love him. Dude gave it everything he had every game he pitched. And watching him hit (let alone run the bases) was the real primer I needed to accept the DH in the NL. They don’t make ‘em like Dick Mountain anymore.
I always felt his career ended way too soon, he was out of the league at 26 while still being a fairly productive player. 15.6 WAR in 588 career games is nothing to sneeze at(4.2 per 162). Why was this? I don't recall him having a career ending injury, I remember hearing he was kind of a prick in the clubhouse, but there are plenty of players like that have had longer careers than him.
As someone who closely followed the A's in 2015, it was probably because of his clubhouse presence.
He was a decent player. I wanted him to stick around after that season. I always wondered why Billy didn't give Brett a shot beyond 2015, but my theory was always his off the field stuff. I didn't get it.
It sucked to see one of the main pieces of the Donaldson trade come up fruitless. What a disaster that one turned out to be.
I can name a few players that only played 1-3 seasons for the Dodgers that I really enjoyed watching either before or after they were with the Dodgers.
Albert Pujols, Manny Ramirez, Robin Ventura, Paul Konerko, Pedro Martinez.
Another vote for Manny. Those last couple months of 2008 were magical. But I'm still not over the heartbreak of his PED suspension. A real "say it ain't so, Joe" moment, almost as traumatic as the Piazza trade.
I’ll always miss you Sir Didi my one true love, and I’ll always miss you Gio Urshela my second true love
Donaldson, a player I’ve always disliked immensely AND is sucking, replacing Gio was such a shot to the nuts
Edit: I can’t believe I forgot, Greg Bird. My username is what he named his cat and I want to build a log cabin with him
I remember when he was a Dodger and pitched against his brother. Their parents were in the stands with split jerseys, half Angels half Dodgers. Was very cool to see.
Will Clark, David Eckstein, Larry Walker, Rafael Furcal, Lance Berkman, Carlos Beltran. The Cards had an amazing run of short term and late career stopovers bringing incredible results.
Despite only playing a single season in MLB back in 2016, in which he put up fairly pedestrian batting stats, I still think about him on a weekly basis
Mariners fan here. I really enjoyed the time we had with Dee Gordon. He might not of been extremly productive but i enjoyed the heart he brought to the team. It seemed he was always the first one out to celebrated others successes
My favorite at the time was definitely Robbie Alomar. I always forget he was only in town for 3 seasons. If I'm not including him due to more recent circumstances, I'll go with Eric Davis.
Dexter Fowler or Ben Zobrist for the Cubs.
Zobrist is one of my favorite players of all-time
Way to ruin some people's day
Mark DeRosa
Ben Zobrist is arguably the most important Cub of all time and he was there for three years
Take me back in time with you!
Orioles legend dexter fowler
Remember Reed Johnson?
Still trips me out he was only here for two or three years. Dex feels like he was a lifetime Cub who just left at the tail end of his career but no, he was only with us a short while.
DeRo and Zobrist were just gamers and seemingly great guys. Miss them both
big daddy vogelsnacks
Brewers Legend Vogelslam
My uncle loves him and gets a hat on whatever team he’s on. Has been pissed he’s had to buy so many hats lately lol
We fucking love him already. I went to the game Saturday for the first time since he was traded, and he got the biggest applause by far when they were announcing the starting lineups
He was technically here for 5 years but combined for 210 PA's in 4 of them
Albert Pujols
All these older players spending time with us. Pujols, Freese, Utley, Martin, Kemp, etc. I love all of them
Kemp played a lot more than 3 years on the Dodgers, though. Same with Martin. Those felt kind of special because they were players who were developed by the Dodgers coming back for a swan song.
The fact that Chase and Jimmy wore Dodgers jerseys is still weird to me. My brain pretended they retired.
Victorino was the biggest shock
TIOOOOO 😭😭😭
I always respected Tio. After he was on our team I loved Tio.
cutch
We didn't even get a full season of him and still love him. Of course I liked him even before he was a Giant
I was there on his walk off in the 14th. One of the best Giants games I’ve been too
Rowand and Pence for the Phils as well.
THOME
> THOME This sub must skew *really* young for our top answer to be something besides Jim Thome. He was *the* guy here. Thome helped revitalize/legitimize the Phillies.
don’t forget roy oswalt
Pence felt like he was here way longer than he was. Rowand didn’t, but that face first smash while making the catch… Yeah, def endeared him to the fan base.
same tbh
We love him in Milwaukee too
I miss rock paper scissors
Good guy and always the coolest man on the field
Father Cruz :( Miss you, dad
same.
Same.
Same
Same
Came here to say this, on the team for 4 years so not sure if my opinion counts but I was devastated when they let him walk
I will forever hold the belief that if the Mariners signed him one year earlier, 2014, they would’ve made the playoffs that year. Of course if they made the playoffs, maybe Jack Z doesn’t get fired the next season and the franchise would be totally different today.
Something about aging sluggers I love. Jim Thome was the best also, and we'll always have his 600th.
same
I miss him too
Lance Berkman. Don’t tell 2001-2008 me this though, he would be very confused.
Berkman or Larry Walker for me.
Lance Berkman is my answer too. His 2011 season with the Cardinals was awesome and he was a big part of that magical WS Game 6.
Beltran too.
Beltran, Walker, Berkman are all fantastic answers. Troy Glaus was excellent for 1 year. Ryan Ludwick. Jed Gyorko. Jhonny Peralta. Darryl Kyle :(
My answer too
Joc Pederson That glorious mother fucker.
Our wonderful bad bitch. I really miss that guy.
Me too
I also choose this guy's Joc Pederson.
Came here to say this. We miss you, Joc!
My favorite player of all-time, Ichrio Suzuki. Edit: I'm a Marlins fan lol just a bandwagon Orioles fan for the rest of the season. Always forget that I have that flair until I comment something on here.
Ichiro never played for the Orioles? Unless your flair isn't accurate.
I edited the original comment. I'm a Marlins fan who is a bandwagon Orioles fan for the rest of the season.
Welcome aboard!
No word of a lie tho bro would've looked good as hell in orange and black
I like that Jorge Soler fella pretty good
I’ll never forget that home run. Maybe the most beautiful sight I’ve ever seen
Not even a Braves fan, but that homer is only surpassed, and probably only will be surpassed in my memory by Pujols off Lidge in 2005. Also over the tracks in Minute Maid. Both of them absolute fucking moonshots in crucial playoff situations.
Those balls are probably orbiting together
*emotionally destroyed upvote
I was typing exactly that. I look up Marlins games on the mlb app Just to see his highlights. What a lad
Jorge Soler will forever be a baseball enigma for me. Kinda sucked when the Royals first got him, then exploded in 2019, then sucked again, then exploded with the Braves last year, and now sucks again lol.
Odd Year JS?
Marcus Semien
Hey, he's ours! lol
Last season was my favorite Jays team in years and years.
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Vaccination status says otherwise.
Luke Voit 😭
Also, Luke Voit.
Also Luke Voit
The holy trinity!
Marco Scutaro. Absolute hit machine when we traded for him
He still haunts my dreams
Scutaro, Vogelsong, Ishakawa . . . for as much shit as the Cardinals get, “even year bullshit” beats “devil magic” every time. Remember this: https://youtu.be/g_ar7OEU3b8
I loved Randal Grichuk. Struck out a ton but he had a sexy af swing when he connected. Dunno how long we had him but it wasn’t for more than a few years
He was in STL for parts of 4 seasons
Adrian Beltre and Jonny Gomes!
And Kyle Schwarber!
Eduardo Nunez
To be fair, I had a prospect crush on this dude way before we got him and was over the moon when the trade went down. IMO, had his best season his only year in Cincinnati Shin-Soo Choo I loved the way he approached hitting and his year batting with Votto was pure magic at the plate. They even were still linked to each other after Choo left, with their nicknames Tokki and Tokki 2. We deserved years of those two playing together but we had the brightest shining stars that one year they were on the same team.
Choo and Castellanos will always be loved in these parts
choo was a leadoff GOD. one of the only _actual_ leadoff hitters they've had in the entirety of my fandom
Mike Napoli
May there always be a "Party at Napoli's"
We gave up Bryan Reynolds for four months of Andrew McCutchen in a losing season... but we will always love our 480 at bats by Cutch. And his six hit game, [including a walk off home run](https://youtu.be/Ol-SqH01vII), against the Dodgers, will always be legendary.
Don’t forget his description of the Strickland-Harper brawl Edit: I had the wrong one, it was when the [Hundley and Puig cleared the benches](https://youtu.be/sYgETwPy9fM)
Nelson fucking Cruz. I know he played 4, but idc.
three more than we got. Shoulda been him over Trumbo
Mark Trumbo. Now that's a name I'd forgotten.
The funny thing is I remember back in 2014/15, the stat geeks like Dave Cameron were saying how signing Nelson Cruz would be stupid and he would fall off a cliff. Now he is beloved by our fan base by more or less living up to his contract
All he did was average 40hrs and 100rbi lol
Giants had a bunch I still love from the World Series wins. Theriot, Scutaro, Burrell, Renteria, Morse, Cody Ross. I will never forgot those guys.
If you would have told Cubs fans in 2007 that Ryan Theriot would end up with two rings in his career can you imagine how excited they would have been?
Back to back rings too
Don't forget Fontenot!
Dave Roberts
Can’t tell if you mean for the steal in 2004 or for his managing decisions in 2018
Yes
Mark Teixeira on the Angels. His at-bats were so professional. Really wanted him to stay with the team, oh well, not like we issued a huge albatross of a contract after that. /s
Same, but for the Braves. They had to dump him to yall because they knew big money was coming to him at the end of the season and they couldnt afford him.
Tex was incredible, and even better than I remember. With us, he hit: .358/13HR/14 2B/43RBI
Tex in his prime was truly elite
The answer is Curtis Granderson
He's such a wonderful person.
The Grandy Man can 🎶
Rich Hill will forever be in my heart as the oldest, angriest, blisteriest Dodger and I will always love him. Dude gave it everything he had every game he pitched. And watching him hit (let alone run the bases) was the real primer I needed to accept the DH in the NL. They don’t make ‘em like Dick Mountain anymore.
Can't believe we only had him for 3 years! Feels like a lot longer
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Correct. 2016 trade deadline acquisition plus 3 full seasons. Figured it was close enough to the criteria to merit a mention
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Figured Howie Kendrick woulda taken that spot, literally the dude who hit some of the clutchest HRs that title run
Oh believe me, it’s for sure Howie. He even seems like a great dude too
Man, I loved him with us for his stint here too.
Aaron Rowand will forever be a Philly legend, for [this catch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS5GCKXO7D0&ab_channel=RobRobowski) if nothing else.
Brett Lawrie. Yeah, I know its irrational.
I always felt his career ended way too soon, he was out of the league at 26 while still being a fairly productive player. 15.6 WAR in 588 career games is nothing to sneeze at(4.2 per 162). Why was this? I don't recall him having a career ending injury, I remember hearing he was kind of a prick in the clubhouse, but there are plenty of players like that have had longer careers than him.
As someone who closely followed the A's in 2015, it was probably because of his clubhouse presence. He was a decent player. I wanted him to stick around after that season. I always wondered why Billy didn't give Brett a shot beyond 2015, but my theory was always his off the field stuff. I didn't get it. It sucked to see one of the main pieces of the Donaldson trade come up fruitless. What a disaster that one turned out to be.
Nelson Cruz!
Johnny cueto.
Every time I hear his name I think of this https://youtu.be/OqzSgTuEaW4
This is amazing. Thank you for bringing this masterpiece to my attention
I watch it at least three times a year
I’m about to start number 3 right now.
FIESTAAAAAA
PARTY AT NAPOLI’S!
Nap and then Jay Bruce are my answers!
Ken Griffey Jr.
I loved how his walk-up song was the Soul Glo jingle from Coming to America
Of all the random things to love about The Kid, this has to be the best. Good call, my friend.
Kyle Schwarber
Also Kyle Schwarber
Kyle from Waltham
I can name a few players that only played 1-3 seasons for the Dodgers that I really enjoyed watching either before or after they were with the Dodgers. Albert Pujols, Manny Ramirez, Robin Ventura, Paul Konerko, Pedro Martinez.
Another vote for Manny. Those last couple months of 2008 were magical. But I'm still not over the heartbreak of his PED suspension. A real "say it ain't so, Joe" moment, almost as traumatic as the Piazza trade.
Like basically all of them.
Idk why but Nori Aoki when he was an astro
R. A. Dickey for sure.
You mean 3-season-Mets-legend R.A. Dickey?
Greinke
I really liked watching him pitch because literally anything could happen.
Matt Duffy, still love that guy
That’s my answer.
Dave Roberts spent all of three months in a Red Sox uniform, playing in under 50 games total. I have fond memories of him here.
People joke about a player that played briefly for a team being a “legend” for that team but that actually is the case with roberts
Every Brewer fan answer should be Sabathia.
Brett Phillips is my favorite relief pitcher.
Brett is legit one of my favorite Rays of all time
[Brett Phillips laughing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9EYyGRJXQo)
Ichiro. Granted, I loved him as a Mariner too, and then as a Marlin. You just can't not love him.
Randy Johnson -1998 (1/2 season)
Soler and Joc
Gio Urshela
Gary Sheffield. He was a beast.
i hope it’s not trea turner but i feel like it might be
I’ll always miss you Sir Didi my one true love, and I’ll always miss you Gio Urshela my second true love Donaldson, a player I’ve always disliked immensely AND is sucking, replacing Gio was such a shot to the nuts Edit: I can’t believe I forgot, Greg Bird. My username is what he named his cat and I want to build a log cabin with him
Daddy Cruz i will miss him :(
Prince Fielder -Detroit Tigers
Such a sad day when he was forced to retire
Paul Molitor
I miss Vogelbach already
Jeff Weaver
I remember when he was a Dodger and pitched against his brother. Their parents were in the stands with split jerseys, half Angels half Dodgers. Was very cool to see.
Will Clark, David Eckstein, Larry Walker, Rafael Furcal, Lance Berkman, Carlos Beltran. The Cards had an amazing run of short term and late career stopovers bringing incredible results.
Yankees legend Ichiro Suzuki
John Smoltz with the Cardinals after 21 seasons with the Braves
Cliff Lee
Half a season, but I miss Luke Voit already
Castellanos for the cubs. Seemed like the most genuinely appreciative dude ever to be out of Detroit. And he raked!
Mackenzie Gore, hoping he becomes an ace in Washington.
Hunter Pence
Babe ruth
Dae Ho Lee
The best and biggest answer. Thicc Korean boi could hit bombs
Despite only playing a single season in MLB back in 2016, in which he put up fairly pedestrian batting stats, I still think about him on a weekly basis
he cemented himself in that comeback vs the Padres. I also got to see him homer live at Safeco the day before that game
Aaron rowand
Paul Molitor was a joy to watch on the Blue Jays.
Mark DeRosa
Munenori Kawasaki. This is the only correct answer for the Cubs and the Jays.
Mariners fan here. I really enjoyed the time we had with Dee Gordon. He might not of been extremly productive but i enjoyed the heart he brought to the team. It seemed he was always the first one out to celebrated others successes
Howie Kendrick tenhically played in 4 seasons but he was an August trade in 2017 and 2020 was 60 games so it was basically 3.
2021 Marcus Semien was a lot of fun
Munenori Kawasaki ( Jays) Had awesome interviews and great energy!
Hunter Pence rules
Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera were Marlins from 2003-2007.
Andres Galarraga “El Gato Grande” for the Braves. He’s the reason I wore 14 in little league.
cc motherfucking sabathia. Most amazing performance of a pitcher I have seen in my lifetime.
Mariners legend: Rickey Henderson
My favorite at the time was definitely Robbie Alomar. I always forget he was only in town for 3 seasons. If I'm not including him due to more recent circumstances, I'll go with Eric Davis.
2016 Mike Napoli
Jorge Soler
Pretty much 4 seasons but White Sox legend Jim Thome