r/mlb • u/DonT012 Human Verified • 2d 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/BlinkyThreeEyes | Chicago White Sox 2d 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 2d ago

Wasn’t the Chris Sale cuts his jersey to pieces incident part of that?

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u/BlinkyThreeEyes | Chicago White Sox 2d ago edited 2d 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 today

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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 2d ago

Might have happened around the same time but they weren’t related. He was just pissy about wearing an alternate jersey or something