Players who only ever appear in one major league season typically do so for one of just two reasons: being bad or getting injured. Thanks to modern medicine, the second of those two is becoming rarer, too. Today, the chances of a player coming up and having a good season, but never getting a chance in the majors again is pretty unlikely, especially with 30 teams, and potentially more in the future.
However, it has happened before, and it’s happened to Yankees players before, too.
Otis Johnson was born in 1883 in Indiana, and starts appearing in Baseball Reference statistics in 1903.