It is not uncommon in baseball for certain players to have anywhere from solid to illustrious careers, and yet be remembered in a very different way by specific fan bases due to failed short stints with the ballclub.
There are cases in which it is not even about what the player did or didn’t do, but how he got there. Take James Shields and the White Sox for instance. He is remembered as the guy who cost them Fernando Tatis Jr., and not the “Big Game” James who pitched the Rays and Royals to pennants in 2008 and 2014, respectively.