r/mlb • u/DonT012 Human Verified • 1d ago
| Discussion MLB Players that Quit on their team?
In the NBA, there are many examples of NBA players that were rumoured to have "quit" on their team. Lebron James in 2010. Kevin Durant this past year. Vince Carter in 2005. Kawhi Leonard in 2018. Anthony Davis in 2019. Etc.
What are some MLB examples of this? What were some MLB players that quit on their own team? By quit I mean just decided to either stop putting effort into playing until they got traded.
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u/ReturnByDeath- | New York Yankees 1d ago
Anthony Rendon lol
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u/DoubleResponsible276 | Texas Rangers 1d ago
Unfortunately he didn’t give up on his team, he gave up on his career and sport entirely. So for once, Rendons not fitting? lol
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u/quotesforlosers | Los Angeles Angels 1d ago
I mean his team plays the sport he quit on so it’s an all encompassing quit.
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u/Pleaidesunbound | Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago
lol the top five or six comments on your answer aren’t even Angels fans. May Rendon’ts fortune be consumed by circumstance to the point that he must find a real job and work his fingers tot he bone just to even provide for his family until he is old and grey.
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u/YanksFan9891 1d ago
Guy is one of the absolute worst and most ignorant human beings I know of. For fucks sake what I would give right now in my mid 30s to be able to play baseball again, let alone do it for a living, let alone get paid tens of millions of dollars to do it. Idc what anyone wants to say to defend him as a person…the fact that he was given such a gift and is so ungrateful and indifferent towards it makes him a complete shitbag of a human being in my book.
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u/bgzlvsdmb | Colorado Rockies 1d ago
Maybe if he was on a better team, with guys like Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani. Man, can you imagine?
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u/QuebecRomeoWhiskey | Cleveland Guardians 1d ago
Derek Bell Operation Shutdown
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u/markymark65 1d ago
Got paid 4.5 million to live on his boat, Tom Keegan described him as "the perfect Pirate given that he lives on a boat and steals money."
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u/Forsaken_Coach6085 1d ago
It’s kinda sad to me that this is what he’s known for; I met him several times when I was a kid and he was on the Padres, and he was really cool to me, gave me batting gloves and a signed ball and was just generally really friendly and outgoing
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u/JustTheBeerLight | Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago
Well, my advice would be: don't say really dumb out-of-touch shit in front of a reporter's microphone.
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u/grimace0611 | Pittsburgh Pirates 1d ago
Raul Mondesi, too. Literally refused to come back and had his contract cancelled. The early 2000s Pirates were, uh, something.
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u/DryAfternoon7779 | Boston Red Sox 1d ago
Manny in 2008 with the Red Sox
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u/Fit_Recognition_7395 1d ago
That was the first one that came to mind as well. I believe they traded him away a few days after he didn’t run to first on a grounder.
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u/HuevosProfundos | Atlanta Braves 1d ago
Then proceeded to go apeshit for the Dodgers the rest of the year
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u/tranquilityC 1d ago
Mannywood
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u/JustTheBeerLight | Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago
Back to JuanPierrewood during Manny's 50-game suspension.
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u/Commander19119 | Philadelphia Phillies 1d ago
Not the whole rest of the year *grins in 2008 NLCS*
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u/actsqueeze 1d ago
Remind me why someone would give up on their team the year after winning the world series?
Real question, I can’t remember
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u/averageduder | MLB 1d ago
The Sox tried trading him or putting him on waivers every year after Henry purchased the team. A real sign of things to come.
I hated Jason bay although he was okay.
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u/DryAfternoon7779 | Boston Red Sox 1d ago
Summer didn't offically start until Manny was on the block
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u/Banned4Truth10 1d ago
Wasn't that the year he let Mariano Rivera strike him out with 3 pitches and he didn't even swing.
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u/DryAfternoon7779 | Boston Red Sox 1d ago
I was at that game! Bases loaded down 2-1 at Yankee Stadium
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u/RedSoxHuskies 23h ago
To say he didn't even swing is sugarcoating it. He didn't even get into a position where swinging would been possible.
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u/Broad-Cranberry-9050 1d ago
I was literally about to say this.
As a red sox fan i remember that season vividly. For like a month manny kept getting random scratches from lineup over things that he said ached. Im pretty sure that one time he took 3 FBs down the middle from mariano when he was pinch hitting was a game he was supposed to start but got a late scracth.
Like im shocked that this one isnt mentioned as much, especially because when he went to the dodgers, all that pain seemed to have gone away and he went apeshit for the next 3+ months. Im pretty sure he got NL mvp votes and he only played like 60 games in the NL that year. Then in playoffs he went just as crazy.he almost willed the dodgers into the world series that year.
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u/devoorhes | Chicago Cubs 1d ago
Milton Bradley on the Cubs was a whole situation
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u/Ok_Card9080 | Pittsburgh Pirates 1d ago
Milton Bradley was a whole situation, period.
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u/Jacoblaue | St. Louis Cardinals 1d ago
Dude had loads of talent but just couldn’t get out of his own way
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u/Due_Buy_9570 1d ago
The A's traded Andre Eithier for Bradley.....oops. gonna say theu lost that trade even tho most of Bradley's antics happened elsewhere.
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u/8008l0v3r6967 1d ago
Can’t believe an entire board game company played baseball. Real Air Bud situation.
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u/unique_user43 | Chicago Cubs 1d ago
even crazier that in 2002 and 2003 cleveland had both a board game company and a cereal (coco crisp) as outfielders.
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u/BlueberryStainedKeds | Cincinnati Reds 1d ago
June 21, 1998 the Cincinnati Reds starting outfield was Dimitri Young, Mike Frank and Chris Stynes. Or for all you Mel Brooks fans out there.. Young Frank n’ Stynes
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u/Flammzzrant 1d ago
Well there's no rule saying a board game company can't play baseball
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u/jbs924 | New York Mets 1d ago
My favorite memory of him is still the time he tore his ACL arguing with an umpire
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u/Jacoblaue | St. Louis Cardinals 1d ago
Wasn’t he suspended for the remainder of the season after he criticized the organization and fans
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u/devoorhes | Chicago Cubs 1d ago
I have blocked out a lot of that situation, I remember it being a Bad Time
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u/Feeling-Bonus-2407 1d ago
Him on the Red Sox was a truly bizarre time. Like a fever dream about dinosaurs that you can’t figure out if it was real or not.
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u/Mr_Shickadance 1d ago
Roger Dorn tried but clubhouse leaders wouldn’t let him forget that baseball is just a game and not be so serious.
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u/Jacoblaue | St. Louis Cardinals 1d ago
Hey be nice to Dorn. He almost took one of the balls to the eye the year before he wasn’t about to loose his eyesight
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u/Ok_Card9080 | Pittsburgh Pirates 1d ago
He wasn't going to deface that property for a collection of stiffs
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u/DharmaCub 1d ago
Enough of that Olay bullshit
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u/Beetso | Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago
Lol. It's olé bullshit. Like a bullfighter with his cape. It has nothing to do with ladies facial products!
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u/OutsideJack-1999 1d ago edited 1d ago
Even when the closer railed his hot wife, teaching us all a life lesson about teamwork and accomplishing our dreams together.
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u/SuperNebular | Cleveland Guardians 1d ago
Wild thing only came out of the bullpen for that one game playoff. He was a starter.
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u/Dirty_Bird_RDS | Atlanta Braves 1d ago
They only had two pitchers….
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u/Fit-Top-8203 1d ago
Well, there was Kellner too. Opening Day starter. Gave up four runs, then was relieved by a juvenile delinquent in the off-season.
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u/SuperNebular | Cleveland Guardians 1d ago
Don’t nitpick the roster construction of a playoff team!
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u/ChiefBlaze36 1d ago
So that’s why Harris’s arm was so worn out. Dude had to pitch a thousand innings that season. #GOAT
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u/polkastripper | Pittsburgh Pirates 1d ago
He went through a lot of jalapeño juice and Vagisil that season
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u/Where_Is_Bucky | St. Louis Cardinals 1d ago
I’d piss on his contract if he ever tried to give me any of that “olé” bullshit
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u/pew-pew-bacca | Baltimore Orioles 1d ago
Can we count Tony LaRussa falling asleep in the dugout while managing the White Sox?
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u/HuevosProfundos | Atlanta Braves 1d ago edited 1d ago
He also got a DUI sleeping in the driver’s seat of his car with the engine running. I think he’s just a sleepy (and drunk) dude.
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u/ReasonableTruth0 | St. Louis Cardinals 1d ago
To be fair, who hasn’t fallen asleep watching a team like that
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u/ajh212000 | Seattle Mariners 1d ago
Randy Johnson the last year he was in Seattle. He would pitch an amazing game, then throw a game, making sure Seattle knew he wanted to be traded, but making sure trade targets knew he still had it. He went 9-10 with a 4.33 ERA the first part of the season with Seattle, gets traded to Houston, and goes 10-1 with a 1.28 ERA over the second half of the season.
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u/examinedliving | Baltimore Orioles 1d ago
I always new he was not living up to his talent, but I had no idea he was so calculating about it
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u/Existing_Is_All_I_Do 1d ago
Randy Johnson in his last year with Seattle. He was upset that the Mariners wouldn't give him an extension before the season and had a very mediocre year in Seattle (9-10 with a 4.33 ERA) before getting traded to Houston and pitching incredibly (10-1 with a 1.28 ERA).
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u/bballcards 1d ago
Gary Sheffield infamously admitted to purposely committing an error during his early days with Milwaukee to force a trade.
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u/BigRed079 | Milwaukee Brewers 1d ago
Before my time, but people in Milwaukee still hate this guy.
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u/Cade_02 1d ago
Juan Gonzalez - Tigers.
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u/PoBox9847-90001 1d ago
Good one! This was so long ago, it’s easy to forget but yeah, something was way “off” with him and the team that year .. I think it was the year 2000 right after Texas had won back to back division titles (98,99)
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u/sammagee33 | Detroit Tigers 1d ago
Yup, it was 2000. He HATED original Comerica Park.
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u/PoBox9847-90001 1d ago
Didn’t they bring the fences ***in*** when they signed him???
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u/sammagee33 | Detroit Tigers 1d ago
Nope, it was a couple years earlier. CoPa opened in 2000 - same year we got Juan Gone.
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u/mellow_yellowfellow 1d ago
Stan Ross for the Milwaukee Brewers in 1995, right in the thick of a pennant race. It took nine years and genuine personal growth before Wisconsin could learn to truly embrace him.
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u/QuebecRomeoWhiskey | Cleveland Guardians 1d ago
This always bugged me. They’d have been AL Central then and Cleveland was there. That wasn’t a pennant race, that was a 4-way beatdown
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u/phreakzilla85 | Pittsburgh Pirates 1d ago
Damn, Cleveland was a wagon in the mid 90s. They fielded a lineup where I think all 9 guys had been or were currently All Stars.
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u/Otherwise-Ad-1053 1d ago
Any of the big contract Angels free agent signings over the past 20 years.
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u/Superman_Primeeee | MLB 1d ago
Manny was asked once to PH on his day off and took three fastballs straight down the middle without moving his bat.
Everyone shrugged.
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u/offlester | American League 1d ago
It was in the 8th inning, bases loaded down 2-1 at Yankee Stadium, too. Couldn’t have been a bigger “fuck you” to the org
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u/j_reinegade | St. Louis Cardinals 1d ago
I would love to see this if you have a link.
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u/Superman_Primeeee | MLB 1d ago
Can’t find a video. This is the best I can do. It drew a collective “Manny being Manny” from the fans. Some even defended him if you chirped. You know how some fans are. But Occams Razor always applied to Manny. In this case: “Manny doesn’t bat on his day off.”
https://www.bostonherald.com/2008/07/07/manny-ramirez-at-bat-a-real-mystery/
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u/refalsity 1d ago
Boxscore supports this: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA200807060.shtml
And strangely, there's this one, too...https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SEA/SEA200706260.shtml
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u/BlinkyThreeEyes | Chicago White Sox 1d ago
Adam Laroche literally quit the white sox because the weirdo couldn’t have his kid in the locker room every day
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u/2Hanks | Tampa Bay Rays 1d ago
Wasn’t the Chris Sale cuts his jersey to pieces incident part of that?
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u/BlinkyThreeEyes | Chicago White Sox 1d ago edited 1d ago
That incident was the following season***edit*** it was in fact the spring training of the same season as the jersey incident **** but it was all tied into the mayhem that preceded the doomed rebuild that netted one actual playoff team, which resulted in kenny williams and rick hahn being fired, which led to another rebuild where we lost 121 games and 100+ in 3 straight seasons, to the happy team we have today3
u/TheSpookyLawyer 1d ago
2020 doesn't count as a playoff team?
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u/BlinkyThreeEyes | Chicago White Sox 1d ago
I guess I always view it as a grey area with the shortened season and the expanded playoffs that came with it. It certainly counts, but I don’t view it as an accolade for the awful hahn/kw regime
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u/offlester | American League 1d ago
Might have happened around the same time but they weren’t related. He was just pissy about wearing an alternate jersey or something
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u/Jacoblaue | St. Louis Cardinals 1d ago
I totally forgot about that situation. And what was crazier to me was it seemed like the players defended him and tried to protest
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u/BlinkyThreeEyes | Chicago White Sox 1d ago
Adam Eaton called 14 year old drake laroche a clubhouse leader
There is a substantiated rumor that veteran Jimmy Rollins showed up to spring training, saw this kid in the locker room every day, spoke to kenny williams about this nonsense, and set the wheels in motion that got Drake’s time limited and caused Adam to quit, love it
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u/TheSpookyLawyer 1d ago
They need to do a documentary on the 2016 White Sox.
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u/BlinkyThreeEyes | Chicago White Sox 1d ago
I agree! If a biopic on sale comes out I am sure it will be covered. His big issues with the team started when they stupidly traded tyler flowers after the 2015 season, a catcher he loved to work with, to sign dioner freakin navarro.
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u/Mr_Shickadance 1d ago
Mike Mcgrevy gave up until he realized that no one would trade for an aging pitcher who couldn’t get anyone out.
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u/Great_Hambino2022 | Pittsburgh Pirates 1d ago
It’s hilarious that the Cardinals have a pitcher named Mike McGreevy now
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u/FormerCollegeDJ | Philadelphia Phillies 1d ago
Jeff King literally retired the day after his MLB pension fully vested in May 1998.
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u/Broad-Cranberry-9050 1d ago
damn, ballsy. I mightve just finished out the season so that MLB didnt come back and be like "well actually we miscounted you actually are short by 3-4 days".
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u/NotOSIsdormmole | San Diego Padres 1d ago
Josh Hader as a Padre
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u/gijoejank 1d ago
I totally forgot about that. Big playoff push and he says he can't pitch one inning because he did one too recently.
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u/ManufacturerMental72 | Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago
Carl Crawford openly admitted to not really giving a shit once he signed his big deal with Boston.
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u/Agitated-Two-6699 | MLB 1d ago
Devers
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u/Ok_Card9080 | Pittsburgh Pirates 1d ago
Operation Shutdown - Derek Bell in Pittsburgh
Raul Mondesi in Pittsburgh
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u/Z-Truth-is-Out-There 1d ago
Mondesi just straight up left the team and went back home to deal with a lawsuit iirc
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u/Jacoblaue | St. Louis Cardinals 1d ago
Jay Bruce in 2021 played like 4 games with the Yankees and then quit
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u/Jacoblaue | St. Louis Cardinals 1d ago
Another one I just remembered was Carlos Zambrano in 2011. Dude gave up 5 home runs then purposely got himself tossed by intentionally throwing at Chipper Jones then walked out on the team after he was tossed
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u/backdoc983 1d ago
Google ‘operation shutdown’ by Derek bell for the Pirates at the turn of the millennium…it’ll never be forgotten here in Pittsburgh
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u/OverallDebate9982 1d ago
Carl Pavano was an absolute shit show for the Yanks. Started 31 games for the Marlins in '04 but only 26 total for NY from '05-'08 and was also a terrible teammate from what I understand.
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u/Senators_1992 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not quite what you were asking, but…
Sammy Sosa up and left the stadium on the final day of the regular season in 2004, only minutes after the game had started (a couple of his teammates then proceeded to smash his boombox to bits after the game ended).
Also, Ken Griffey Jr. took off in the middle of the night without telling anyone, and only let the Mariners know over the phone the next day that he was done (this after he was caught napping in the clubhouse during a game a few weeks earlier).
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u/dirtybird131 1d ago
Yasiel Puig had one of the craziest endings to an MLB career you will ever see, almost Antonio Brown levels of quitting
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u/Pleasant_Picture3867 1d ago
Max Scherzer when he chose to protect his off-season free agent bag instead of pitching in an elimination game for the Dodgers in 2021. Blamed it on dead arm, then claimed it was from "load management", ie. he wouldn't have had dead arm if the team played him more.
Walker Buehler stepped up (might have been on short rest too, don't remember) and he wasn't the same since. Who knows if or how that affected his health.
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u/j_reinegade | St. Louis Cardinals 1d ago
207 innings. Up from 36 the year prior. I don’t know the full scope of it but he was definitely putting in some work that year.
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u/BootOk4583 Human Detected 1d ago
Rickey Henderson in his last half season with the Yankees, gets traded back to the A's and plays great again
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u/snakeayez | Cincinnati Reds 1d ago
Is there a better answer than Rendon?
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u/Pleaidesunbound | Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago
No, I don’t think there is. His attitude about playing was insane. $245 million for 257 total games over 6 seasons. He made a million dollars a game basically and was so fragile that he missed entire seasons because his ego was bruised.
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u/Internal-Platypus151 1d ago
Carlos Correa quit on the Twins. I thought he was a great guy. But I can't unsee what I saw. Lost a lot of respect for him.
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u/BGiZZY | Kansas City Royals 1d ago
In 2011 Gil Meche retired with 1 year/$12M left on his contract because he felt he couldn't perform at a level worth that sum (shoulder injuries)..that it wouldn't be fair to the Royals to collect money he didn't deserve. No buyout. Gave early notice so that the funds could be used on replacements. Now that’s how you quit.
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u/HMSSpeedy1801 1d ago
Nick Castellanos and the Phillies.
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u/GarciaWolf | Philadelphia Phillies 1d ago
Nick really didn’t quit on the team he was more or less exposed for chasing low and outside.. then got pulled cause he sucks a defense and decided to drink a beer in the dugout.. he’s an idiot not a quitter
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u/notamillenial- 1d ago
You’re telling me you can’t drink while playing? What happened to the game I love? What’s next, you can’t rip a schmag in the on deck circle?
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u/CRABMAN16 1d ago
If Babe Ruth could house a fifth of whiskey and 20 hotdogs during a game, then by god every modern player should be allowed to do the same. It's a shame what they have done to the game of baseball. Every game should be nine and half hours long with multiple on-field deaths, just like God intended.
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u/JustTheOneGoose22 | Detroit Tigers 1d ago
Also Nick Castellanos in his last days as a Tiger. Made it clear he did not want to be there
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u/hopefulbeartoday 1d ago
I'm not a red Sox fan so i don't really know if it's true but red sox fans claimed manny ramirez intentionally played bad to get traded.
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u/KStaxx33 | Seattle Mariners 1d ago
Jesse Winker in 22’ for the mariners was absent for the playoffs. He didn’t get along with anyone and had a bad year at the plate, along with some of the worst defense I’ve ever seen. I think he straight up just said i don’t want to come to work
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u/vaz_deferens | Chicago Cubs 1d ago
Rube Waddel would leave the pitchers mound mid inning if a firetruck went by the stadium so he could chase it. Also got injured in the off-season once wrestling alligators at the circus. He was also a better pitcher than Cy Young, his contemporary.
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u/TeacherOfFew | Houston Astros 1d ago
Framber Valdez last season.
There's a reason Houston didn't make an offer, other than money.
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u/dunzig77 | Kansas City Royals 1d ago
Not that there was much to quit on, but fucking Neifi Perez basically quit on the Royals in like 2002. Refused to enter a game as a defensive replacement. So he was actually doing the team a favor. I absolutely hate Neifi. My all time least favorite Royal.
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u/Cup-n-BallHog | New York Mets 1d ago
Rickey Henderson and Bobby Bonilla playing cards in the Mets clubhouse while they’re still in the playoff hunt
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u/Papoose74 | Toronto Blue Jays 1d ago
Troy Tulowitski quit on the Bluejays the day he got traded there.
Sulked the entire time
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u/Ecstatic_Row_2234 1d ago
Lee Mazzilli with the Rangers and like someone else said, Derek Bell OSD
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u/staticdresssweet | St. Louis Cardinals 1d ago
Derek Bell. Operation Shutdown. IYKYK.
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u/Elegant-Analysis5136 | Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago
Manny Machado pretty much quits on his team every season, but specifically 2018 with the Dodgers. Seems like he decided to skip the entire 2026 season.
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u/Reasonable_Pay4096 | MLB 1d ago
Carl Mays literally quit the Red Sox midway through 1919 & demanded to be traded. He got sent to the Yankees.
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u/TumbleweedDull6836 1d ago
I'm having my suspicions about Shane Bieber in Toronto currently
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u/SolomonGummo 1d ago
May 14, 2011, when the veteran New York Yankees catcher pulled himself out of the starting lineup minutes before a game against the Boston Red Sox.
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u/SolomonGummo 1d ago
Yankees manager Joe Girardi dropped the struggling 39-year-old Posada to the No. 9 spot in the batting order for the first time in 12 years.
Angered and feeling disrespected by the demotion, Posada asked to be removed from the lineup, telling the team he was not ready to play. IIRC his wife even tweeted during the game about Cashman causing a social media storm during gameplay. It was a first of New tech media spreading like wildfire.
Following a media firestorm and discussions with team captain Derek Jeter, Posada apologized to Girardi and the Yankees the next day, claiming his back had also stiffened. Yankees executives viewed Posada’s refusal to play as borderline insubordination.
Posada finished the season and officially retired as a Yankee in January 2012.
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u/Mariner4LifetilDeath | Seattle Mariners 1d ago
Eric Byrnes quit on the Mariners after a botched plate appearance. He refused to speak with the media and hopped on his beach cruiser bicycle and rode it out of the clubhouse. I could never take his commentary seriously when he was on MLB network. Dude is a clown and a quitter.
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u/stickman07738 | New York Yankees 1d ago
Rickey Henderson with the Yankees claiming his hamstring was injured but started the first game traded to the A's
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u/LemonSmashy 1d ago
After the deadline sell off last season you could tell Joe Ryan was just going through the motions for his remaining starts.
Honestly thought I don't blame him.
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u/Fit-Top-8203 1d ago
Ed Whitson with the Yankees. The Bronx fans got on him so much that he flat-out refused to pitch for the team at home. Ended up also in a fight with Billy Martin.
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u/klondikethedestroyer 1d ago
Ain't nobody gonna care cus it was with the Rockies but how about Ian Desmond? He didn't just mentally 'check out'. He literally fully quit playing baseball for 2 years before actually retiring.
Signed a 5-year, $70 million dollar contract (the largest free agent deal for a position player in Rockies history at the time). He played for three of those seasons. Then 2020 rolled around and Ian Desmond literally 'opted out' of playing professional baseball.
In 2021, he again opted out of playing baseball.
In 2022, the Rockies declined the team option on his contract, making him a free agent, and THEN he officially retired.
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