On October 23, 2010, Jayson Werth played his last game with the Phillies, a 3-2 loss that closed out the National League Championship Series. Signed off the scrap heap before the 2007 campaign, Werth had been a Phillie for four seasons, winning the everyday right field job in mid-2008 and holding it for two and a half tremendously productive years. As a free agent that winter, he landed an eyebrow-raising seven-year, $126 million contract from the Washington Nationals, where he would spend the remainder of his big-league career.
More than eight years later, another outfielder came back from Washington.