{"id":539544,"date":"2026-03-14T08:05:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539544\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:05:44","slug":"mlb-players-with-the-most-seasons-on-one-team-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539544\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB players with the most seasons on one team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mar 13, 2026, 05:26 PM ET<\/p>\n

Players switching teams has become a regular occurrence. In the age of free agency, the days of players spending two decades with a single franchise are seemingly over.<\/p>\n

Hall of Famers such as Brooks Robinson (Baltimore Orioles<\/a>), Stan Musial (St. Louis Cardinals<\/a>) and Derek Jeter (New York Yankees<\/a>) became synonymous with their respective clubs after spending their entire storied careers with those organizations. Meanwhile, Shohei Ohtani<\/a> won two unanimous AL MVP awards with the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> and then went across town and won two more unanimous (NL) MVPs and two World Series championships with the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Times change.<\/p>\n

Here is a look at the players who have played the most seasons with a single team in MLB’s modern era (since 1900).<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

1 Related<\/p>\n

Most seasons played with a single franchise<\/p>\n

23 – Brooks Robinson, Baltimore Orioles<\/p>\n

23 – Carl Yastrzemski, Boston Red Sox<\/a><\/p>\n

22 – Al Kaline, Detroit Tigers<\/a><\/p>\n

22 – Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinals<\/p>\n

22 – Mel Ott, New York Giants<\/p>\n

21 – George Brett, Kansas City Royals<\/a><\/p>\n

21 – Walter Johnson, Washington Senators<\/p>\n

21 – Ted Lyons, Chicago White Sox<\/a><\/p>\n

21 – Cal Ripken Jr., Baltimore Orioles<\/p>\n

21 – Willie Stargell, Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a><\/p>\n

20 – Luke Appling, Chicago White Sox<\/p>\n

20 – Craig Biggio, Houston Astros<\/a><\/p>\n

20 – Red Faber, Chicago White Sox<\/p>\n

20 – Tony Gwynn, San Diego Padres<\/a><\/p>\n

20 – Mel Harder, Cleveland<\/p>\n

20 – Derek Jeter, New York Yankees<\/p>\n

20 – Alan Trammell, Detroit Tigers<\/p>\n

20 – Robin Yount, Milwaukee Brewers<\/a><\/p>\n

Most seasons played with a single franchise (active, entering the 2026 season)<\/p>\n

Check out the ESPN MLB hub page<\/a> for the latest news, analysis, stats<\/a>, scores<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 13, 2026, 05:26 PM ET Players switching teams has become a regular occurrence. In the age of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-539544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}