Best pitcher to go and come back?

**grasshopper** · 12-23-2009, 06:19 AM

The Vazquez trade got me thinking. Who is the best pitcher to leave a team and then come back to the same team after playing for another team? I mean come back and still be successful. Not David Cone in 03. NY has 1 of them in Pettitte and the Cubs with Maddux. Im just thinking modern era.

**HoustonGM** · 12-23-2009, 06:24 AM

Randy Johnson

**SirKodiak** · 12-23-2009, 06:31 AM

Bert Blyleven comes to mind

**grasshopper** · 12-23-2009, 06:48 AM

I totally forgot about Blyleven. Good call. He is what made Minnesota great, twice. Randy Johnson also is an I forgot since he went back to Arizona after the Yankees. I wouldn't think about him but he did have that good year in 2008.

Who knows, he could go back to Seattle and pitch till he is 50. Tongue in cheek, could you imagine that staff? King Felix 1, Cliff Lee 2, Ian Snell 3, and Randy 4th? That would be fun. Now if they could just get Edgar to come out of retirement and make Griffey 20 years younger.

**metsguy234** · 12-23-2009, 08:44 AM

Seaver came back to the Mets for a couple of years in the early 80s.

**rschusta24** · 12-23-2009, 09:39 AM

Nothing huge happened, but Eckersley came back to the Sox in 1998 as a reliever after playing with them in the late 70's as a starting pitcher.

**Wassit3** · 12-23-2009, 10:25 AM

john smoltz?

**TheNamelessPoet** · 12-23-2009, 10:33 AM

didn't come back to the Braves.. I dont think he counts

**haveacigar** · 12-23-2009, 10:42 AM

Kenny Rogers, Texas.

**Wassit3** · 12-23-2009, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by TheNamelessPoet

didn't come back to the Braves.. I dont think he counts

duh for some reason I was thinking to come back from injury...ok I am gonna go sit over -----> with my dunce cap on

**gRYFYN1** · 12-23-2009, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by Wassit3

duh for some reason I was thinking to come back from injury...ok I am gonna go sit over -----> with my dunce cap on

wishful thinking ?

**haveacigar** · 12-23-2009, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by Wassit3

duh for some reason I was thinking to come back from injury...ok I am gonna go sit over -----> with my dunce cap on

*points and laughs*

**TheNamelessPoet** · 12-23-2009, 11:52 AM

lol

**rschusta24** · 12-23-2009, 01:15 PM

Here is a good one. Tom Glavine, but never played with the Braves in his come back to the team. That whole thing was wack

**TheNamelessPoet** · 12-23-2009, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by rschusta24

Here is a good one. Tom Glavine, but never played with the Braves in his come back to the team. That whole thing was wack

ug... i was afraid someone would bring that jerk up

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