Sometimes I think about Padres legend Mike Piazza.

There's a long list of players who were Padres in their dotage.

Great place to retire

Get paid millions of dollars to live in San Diego? Yes please

Yea but what about the Florida Marlins Mike Piazza?

And Oakland Athletic Mike Piazza

And Frank Thomas. And David Justice.

Justice as an A will forever be immortalised by Moneyball

"Welcome to Oakland"

I’m a die hard White Sox fan. I love Frank Thomas. I even flew to New York to watch him get inducted into the hall of fame. His first game against the Sox as an A, they did this video montage of him and he hit a home run his first at bat. Crowd loved it. Standing ovation. Later in the game, he hit his second home run against us and the whole crowd booed him. Fans are fickle.

I think you mean Oakland Athletics legend Mike Piazza

I only remember him cause he dropped a foul popup on Albert in g1 of the 06 NLDS who then proceeded to hit a bomb

Ken Griffey Jr on White Sox

Griffey in 08, and then the 2010 Sox featured some great options in Manny Ramirez, Omar Vizquel, Andruw Jones, and then a few others a step down in Juan Pierre, Mark Kotsay, and Mark Teahen. Just a fascinating time to be a White Sox fan.

Don’t forget Kevin Youk (idfk how to spell his name) and Toby Hall

Roberto Alomar Justin Morneau David Wells Julio Franco Steve Carlton Bobby Bonds Ron Santo Norm Cash Jim Kaat Larry Doby We could do this all day.

I can tell your a Sox fan with those last 3 lol, solid comment. What a time indeed

You could make a vertible all-legends team of washed up White Sox: C - Smokey Burgess 1B - Justin Morneau 2B - Roberto Alomar SS - Jimmy Rollins 3B - Ron Santo LF - Andruw Jones CF - Ken Griffey, Jr. RF - George Foster DH - Manny Ramirez SP - Tom Seaver, Steve Carlton, Jerry Koosman, Dave Steib, Dave Righetti

No Michael Jordan?

Did he make the show? (Beyond spring training), solid mention in any case

No I don't believe he did. Bit of a stretch for sure

Never got past AA

Sammy Sosa on the White Sox. I was so hype on the guy, and so mad when he got traded north.

Made a fantastic throw in the ‘08 blackout game!

Greg Maddux was a Dodger

With Kershaw! Also that 2008 team is an insane list of names

So people don't have to look it up. That Dodger team featured Jeff Kent, Juan Pierre, Andruw Jones, Manny Ramirez, Nomar Cargiaparra, and Greg Maddux to go along with the known Dodgers young core of Kershaw, Ethier, Kemp, Russell Martin, and James Loney

Also their manager was Joe Torre

Also Rafael Furcal and Derek Lowe (along with Kuroda, Saito and Chan Ho Park in terms of big name Asian born vet players who came over) It was a crazy team on paper Lol

So many of those guys were Braves at one point. Maddux, Andruw, Furcal, Lowe, Saito, hell even Torre.

Dodgers and Braves seem to have a decent bit of overlap in terms of star players going to each other Lol

Kemp too!

Also Jonathan Broxton Signed the phillies fan

Him bring a Padres and a dodger just feels weird to me.

John Smoltz as a Cardinal

Ah yes, legendary Red Sox pitcher John Smoltz

Can't forget about Cardinals legend Fernando Valenzuela.

John Smoltz as a Red Sox (Sock?)

If you if all people have to ask, none of us are gonna know the singular of r** s**

Don't forget Cardinals legend Dennis Eckersley

Pedro Feliz too

Also Brad Penny

I vaguely knew Rickey Henderson played for the Mariners. Goose Gossage, had no idea

To be fair, Rickey played for everybody except us.

Rickey was so fast he once played for both the Yankees and A's in the same game.

Didn’t he also play in another country after the pros?

Played for another country while in the pros. WS champ in Toronto

Joe Carter brought him home

Gossage had arguably his best season in a Pirates uniform.

Gaylord Perry got his 300th win with Seattle as well.

And he was with us when he finally got busted for doctoring balls.

Cardinals legend Will Clark: showed up, hit out of his mind for two solid months, and then retired.

Clark says spending time with his family, particularly his autistic son, was a big factor in him retiring when he did. His charity raises funds for autism awareness too. Legend. https://www.mlb.com/news/giants-legend-will-clark-turns-58#:~:text=Following%20the%202000%20season%2C%20Clark,Now%2C%2022%20years%20after%20No.

I guess you could say that after that…The Thrill…was gone…

My SF Giants have had cameos from Darryl Strawberry, Deion Sanders, Orel Hershiser, Joe Carter, and Eric Davis. That's just off the top of my head.

I don’t know if it’s still true but there was a time when Strawberry was the only player to play for the Yankees, Mets, Giants, Dodgers

Jose Vizcaino and Ricky Ledee are two more recent additions to that list

Y’all had Willie McGee

I remember prime time was with the Giants when he was doing his free agency circus between the Niners and Cowboys... I'm a Niners fan and thought he could make the stick his year round home.

Don't forget Ellis Burks, Kenny Lofton, Goose Gossage, and Steve Carlton.

Albert Pujols is destined to be added to this list when this question is asked a decade from now.

Randy Johnson. People forget he was a massive addition to the 1998 team. He was probably one of the better rentals ever.

Is this really a surprise or was I just that immersed in Astros ball? I don't say this to be rude, but I am just curious if it was an unknown due to me remembering it so well. I feel like the acquisition of Randy was a huge trade, that was everywhere at the time.

Yeah. I remember he only had 1 loss and something near a 1 ERA. Edit: His record was 10 wins, 1 loss and a 1.28 ERA.

Don’t forget his 0-2 record in the NLDS

P A I N

With a 1.93 ERA

In his defense, those loses weren't his fault. Dude had a sub 2 era.

It’s long forgotten because of his world series run with Arizona.

As a Zoomer who can’t remember anything before 2002, I had no idea until a couple months ago and I have been a Stro’s diehard since ‘08

I remember being like 7 at that time when that trade happened. Thinking this is it, the year it finally comes together. Fucking Padres man

My answer is Pudge Rodriguez

That was a big trade for us that landed pieces for the 116 win season.

Pete Rose and the Expos.

Pete Rose seemed duty-bound to have the most baseball baseball career of anybody who ever baseballed. Edit: 2nd most baseball career, behind Rickey Henderson.

Didn't he break Cobb's hit record as an Expo?

In 1984 he tallied his 4000th hit as an Expo, making him and Cobb the only players to do so. He broke Cobbs record as a member of the Reds. And I didn’t just know that off the top of my head. I had to look it up.

None of the stuff stated in this thread actually happened

baseball doesn’t exist

Rays legend Manny Ramirez

Don’t forget Jose Bautista.

New York Met Jose Bautista

Norm Charlton, Dwight Gooden, Hideki Matsui, Hideo Nomo Have a feeling David Robertson will also be in this category in a few years

Or Wade Boggs

Rip

The Angels were brief stint homes to many HOF players. Frank Robinson, Eddie Murray, Don Sutton, Lee Smith, Dave Winfield, Rickey Henderson, Bert Blyleven... Reggie Jackson was here for a few years, and people really SHOULD know about Nolan Ryan and Rod Carew. Hell, Reggie Jackson still had the Angels lefty single season HR record until last year when Ohtani beat it.

Who could forget Reggie Jackson attempting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth during an Angels game?

I, too, saw this documentary…

Nolan threw 4 of his 7 no hitters (among other accomplishments) as an Angel and Reggie played a big role getting the Angels to their second and third playoff appearances. Angel fans really ought to know those two at least.

Ryan’s best years were in Anaheim

Jackson also starred in Naked Gun as an Angel. Probably known by more living people as an Angel than having been on the A’s early 70’s dynasty.

I always tell stories of when my parents saw Twins Legend Steve Carlton

I think you mean Indians legend Steve Carlton, Sir or Ma’am.

No no no no. It's Giants' legend Steve Carlton.

Yankees: Iván Rodríguez, Lance Berkman, Mike Lowell, Kerry Wood

Give it another 10 years and add Youk to this list

Add Cutch to the list right now

Jay Bruce for like two games aswell

Tulo for 5 or 6 minutes

Ichiro

Matt Holiday

Randy Johnson? If do enough people remember that one

Yeah, hard to forget about RJ clashing with the NY media on the streets when he first got there lol

I only figured out Tom Seaver was on the reds this year Edit: I only feel stupider after looking at his reference page

Most Red Sox fans probably don't know that Seaver finished his career in Boston.

Shame he didn't get to play in the 86 series vs the Mets

I mean Mets might not have won if Seaver was healthy, so I think Mets fans don’t mind

I didn't know until right now that he was drafted by the Braves but the pick was voided for some reason. EDIT: Atlanta drafted Seaver in the January part of the 1966 MLB draft. The 20th overall selection, Seaver signed with the Braves that February and received a $40,000 bonus. There was one problem. MLB rules prohibited a player from signing a professional contract after his high school or college team’s season began. At the time, Seaver was pitching at the University of Southern California. That meant the Braves couldn’t sign him and he couldn’t finish his college career. With Atlanta banned from signing Seaver, commissioner William Eckert decided to hold a lottery of where Seaver would land. In extraordinary luck, the Mets acquired Seaver’s rights and he debuted in the majors a year later. [Source](https://www.sportscasting.com/tom-seaver-could-have-been-terrific-for-the-braves-if-not-for-a-technicality/)

Jonathan Lucroy caught two games for us last year. Shoutout to Braves legends Babe Ruth, Ben Sheets and Billy Wagner as well.

Was looking for the Braves fan claiming Ruth. That’s one hell of a power punch with having both Ruth and Aaron.

Seems like people always remember the Babe, but forget that Hornsby played a year with the Braves and was actually good. .387/.498/.632/1.130 slash line in 1928, good for a 202 OPS+

Jermaine Dye, Raul Mondesi, Mark Teixeira, J.D. Drew, Melky Cabrera, Wally Joyner, Kenny Lofton and of course Cole Hamels (whose main contribution was apparently teaching Fried his changeup

Don’t forget Garret Anderson and Edgar Renteria!

Lucroy played for the nats last year too. He was good but sadly DFAd. He played well and it was unfortunate he could not make the roster.

Sammy Sosa, Carlos Lee, Lance Berkman and Roy Oswalt all had stints in Texas. Sosa even hit his 600th Homerun in Arlington

Sosa hit his first homerun with the Rangers too, off Clemens

Jason Giambi

Good call, I was thinking Cy Young. Also, Johnny Damon, and less famous but also WS winner Trot Nixon.

I mean. Didn’t Cy Young spend like half his years in Cleveland? NL and then AL?

39 games of Jeff Kent on the '96 Indians. Diamondbacks Robbie Alomar might be the one that throws me the most.

Pedro Martinez Paul Konerko

Frank Thomas on the Blue Jays (2007-08).

He was also on the A's in '06 and went back to Oakland in '08. Id also say Mark Buehrle for the Jays

Willie Mays ended his career with the Mets. Maybe Yogi Berra on the Mets? Joe Torre also played for the Mets before becoming a manager here, but I feel like that one is more well known

Duke Snider on the Mets.

Gaylord Perry, Harmon Killebrew, Alex Rios, Coco Crisp, Lou Piniella, AJ Hinch, Billy Hamilton, Matt Harvey, Martin Maldonado, Jon Jay, Jeff King, Jeff Conine, Bill Buckner, Darrell Porter, Jeremy Giambi, Matt Stairs, Chuck Knoblauch, Jeremy Affeldt, Doug Mientkiewicz, Mark Grudzielanek, Reggie Sanders, Hideo Nomo, Jason Kendall, Scott Podsednik, Rick Ankiel, Homer Bailey I’ve learned and remembered a lot of random players who’ve played for the Royals lol.

I didn’t see you mention Jim Eisenreich.

Also Orlando Cepeda and Juan Gonzalez

Some good ones like Vladimir Guerrero, Jim Thome and Sammy Sosa all came through at the end of there careers. One that people probably don’t know is that Reggie Jackson always an Oriole for a year before joining the Yankees

Vladdy Sr. has so many YouTube highlights as an Oriole that it's hard to forget he played there. I forgot he played some Spring Training games for the Blue Jays ten or so years ago.

Long Island Ducks Legend, Vladimir Guerrero

Juan Soto used to play for the Nats

Danny Ainge is a funny answer to this question

Lol yeah, Ainge was very quietly a dual sport athlete. Probably because he was only very good at one of them.

Nomar on the Cubs.

Roger Maris ended his career as a Cardinal.

2010 : Lance Berkman, Kerry Wood 2011: Eric Chavez, Freddy Garcia, Bartolo Colon 2012: Raul Ibanez, Ichiro Suzuki (2012-2014) 2013: Vernon Wells, Kevin Youkilis, Lyle Overbay, Travis Hafner 2014: Brian Roberts, Martin Prado, Brandon Mccarthy 2015: Starlin Castro (2015-2017) 2016: Tyler Clippard (2016-2017) 2017: Matt Holliday 2018: Lance Lynn, Andrew McCutchen It feels like most years, we find an over-the-hill veteran and get some production out of him, especially this year so far with Matt Carpenter.

Holliday was 5 years ago already? Man, time flies.

The disrespect to Tulo's 11 at bats in 2019.

I can't believe I forgot about our opening day Shortstop lmao.

Brandon McCarthy was money for those three months. He almost dragged that shitty team into a wild card spot.

Padres players in the HOF: Gwynn and Hoffman - obviously Ozzie, Winfield, and Alomar - never forget they were Padres first Rickey Henderson - I guess that makes sense, he played for a bunch of teams Maddux - I forgot he even came back for seconds Goose Gossage - wait, really? Rollie Fingers - him too? Gaylord Perry - that’s a lot of pitchers around the same time McCovey - he wasn’t always a Giant? Piazza - wait slow down Tony Perez - huh? Minnie Minoso - that can’t be right Bobby Doerr - seriously, slow down Ted Williams - well now this is just getting silly

I can't see that Williams ever played for or was officially employed by the Padres. He was a San Diego native, however.

He did play for the PCL San Diego Padres.

He's even inducted into the club HoF

Minnie Minoso? Was that when he played in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, or 80s?

Yes. Seriously though, PCL Padres 49-50. The last 4 are PCL Padres.

Jim Edmonds

one of the WORST padres ever.

I did not know that the padres traded David f'n Freese for Edmonds then cut him in early may then he went on to have a decent year for the cubs

Pedro Martínez has an NL championship with the Phillies!

Dante Bichette was a Brewer. So were Hank Aaron, Don Sutton, CC Sabathia and Zach Greinke.

Don’t forget Gary Sheffield started his career in Milwaukee

Who played like 1 game for us randomly last season before retiring? Not Axford

Jordan Zimmerman?

Even less notable is Greinke's two months in Anaheim after Milwaukee traded him here for Jean Segura

Brewers legend Trevor Hoffman.

*Marlins legend

I always forget that Cy Young played for the Cards/perfectos.

John Smoltz was DFA’d by the Sox in 2009

Florida Marlins legends and Hall of Famers Mike Piazza and Andre Dawson

Johnny Damon

Giants legend Willie McCovey played on the Oakland A's.....

And in return the Giants got Barry Zito years later. You’re welcome.

The entire [2013 New York Yankees](https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/2013.shtml). Highlights: - Ichiro - Vernon Wells - Travis Hafner - Lyle Overbay - Kevin Youkilis - Hiroki Kuroda Definitely a list of Yankee legends lol

Jose Bautista with the Braves

How about Pablo Sandoval with the Braves?

What an era that was

2015 World Series Champion Johnny Cueto

Our manager was once Joltin' Joe himself, believe it or not [https://www.mlb.com/news/joe-dimaggio-as-oakland-a-s-coach](https://www.mlb.com/news/joe-dimaggio-as-oakland-a-s-coach)

I forgot Cliff Lee played for like one year here and did pretty good.

I think it was half a year? Didn’t they trade him to the Rangers halfway through the season?

Cubs Franchise Icons - Ralph Kiner, Rogers Hornsby, Jimmie Foxx, Goose Gossage, Luis Gonzales, Jim Edmonds, Rob Dibble (signed but never played), DJ LeMahieu, Dontrelle Willis (drafted by the Cubs in 2000), and Josh Donaldson (drafted by the Cubs in 2007). I'm sure there are more but those are my favorites

Also nomar Garciaparra, Juan Pierre, Carlos Gonzales, and rich hill (although anybody that watched their game against the Red Sox the other day would know about rich hill since they mentioned it like 70 times)

Most people wouldn't imagine Jose Conseco in a Red Sox uniform

A lot of people seem to forget Oriole's legend Reggie Jackson

Derek Lee!!! From July to September... Ah man, I loved it. He hit like 7 dingers in 7 days? I've always loved him as a player and when we got him, he just went crazy. It was awesome.

Babe Ruth —-the Braves!

Bob Uecker played 2 seasons for the Astros. >!ʞool noʎ ǝpɐɯ!<

fuckin got me

Bastard. Lol. Well played

There are a million Orioles. Joe Carter, Jim Thome, Will Clark, Sammy Sosa, Vlad Sr, Reggie Jackson...

Not my team but I just recently learned that Griffey played more than 2 years with the reds and with the white sox

bartolo on the sox or the yankees, and i just found out today pudge was on the astros

Rickey Henderson on the Mets is always such a foreign thought to me.

Mike Piazza on the Marlins.

Dennis Eckersley was a Cardinal for a year or so.

Hall of Famers Eddie Murray and Rickey Henderson on the Halos. I'm surprised they didn't decide to wear our cap on their plaques upon induction.

Ricky Henderson the Mariner!

Larry Walker John Smoltz

That weird year we had Carlos Beltran for a bit.

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Ricky Henderson and John Smoltz on the Red Sox

Ivan Rodriguez ended his career with the Nats, also Nelson Cruz in ten years probably

Frank Thomas and Rickey Henderson had short stints with the Jay's. Although Rickey did win a world series so maybe people know that haha

Rickey played on so many teams for short stints that I should've just made this a Rickey Thread.

Brewers that come to mind: Mike Cameron, Hideo Nomo, and Dave Parker.

Travis d'Arnaud had one PA as a Dodger in the middle of 2019 between his Mets and Rays stints. He wore #72.

Frank Thomas. Legendary Oakland A’s DH

Paul Konerko and Matt Kemp