Since the berth of free agency in all sports, players have had the opportunity to leave the team they were drafted by and grew up with to experience different organizations and cities. We’ve seen this now with Tom Brady going to the Tamp Bay Buccaneers and it’s certainly happened a lot in the history of the Philadelphia Phillies.
We’re going to take a look back at some of the all-time great Philadelphia Phillies players whose time in red pinstripes came to an end, but their careers continued other uniforms.
As an honorable mention, we start with some of the 2008 Phillies who were homegrown stars in Philadelphia but continued their careers elsewhere.