Worst Player Ever, 10-Plus Year Career

Greg Kite.

 

Brian Scalabrine.

 

Are we just naming any random honkie who played in the NBA?

 

The announcers would always bring up that he hit .400 lifetime against Nolan Ryan.

 

Mike Scioscia's favorite pet, Jeff Mathis.
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And his defense? Have you ever seen another catcher throw to first when a player steals second?

 

Not just any random honkie can play for eight different teams and earn $35 million over 13 seasons for sucking ass, like Steve Blake has.

Brian Scalabrine made more than $20 million over 11 years for averaging 3.1 points and 2 rebounds a game.

That's actually really impressive, when you think about it.

 

Jason Collins?

 

Good one. He sucked.

 

He falls into the Dishonorable Mention category since he only played eight years, but Steve Jeltz was the brown standard for my 1980s Phillies. He was the Phillies' starting shortstop in the post-Schmidt/Carlton "Holy shit do these guys suck" era.
Light-hitting shortstop with a .210 career batting average and five home runs. Never drove in more than 36 runs, never scored more than 44, and his defense was unremarkable. The weird part was, two of the home runs came in one game against the Pirates in 1989, from each side of the plate.
He did rock a sweet jheri curl, though.

 

This might get IJAG out of retirement just to tell me off but Nick Punto?

Career .245 hitter over 14 years in the league with 7 teams. He was good enough to keep getting gigs but was never that missing piece for anyone.

He kind of turned into a Chuck Norris figure among my friends (one of whom is a Twins fan).

 

J.T. O'Sullivan has to be the board's unanimous choice from the NFL.

 

Lee Guetterman was in pretty much every pack of 1990 Upper Decks I bought. And he sucked.