- Mar 1, 2008
- 49,949
- 17,327
- 2,250
Indeed,in this day and age they never would have stayed.baseball sucks now because of players jumping all the time not staying their careers with one team anymore.back then every team had as much a shot as the next guy of going to the World Series.now it just a handful every year thst have a shot.Not always. Even 30 years ago far more HOF players stayed with lower stature teams rather than go.
The Twins kept Kirby Puckett for his whole career. Frank Thomas stayed with the white Sox, George Brett in KC, Chipper Jones in Atlanta, Tony Gwynn in San Diego, Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell in Houston, Barry Larkin for the Reds, Robin Yount in Milwaukee, cal Ripken in Baltimore…
It’s likely most to all of those guys wouldn’t have stayed with those franchises today.