How do you capture the impact of a baseball player’s career? With numbers, of course. As we look back on their long, historic careers, we find some interesting data, historical context and surprising milestones for the Cardinal stars.
The number of games Yadier Molina has played in a Cardinals uniform, the most ever by a catcher for a single team. That’s 422 games more than the next closest player, Bill Dickey, who caught 1,789 games for the New York Yankees. If an active player were to try and beat this record, Will Smith of the LA Dodgers and Danny Jansen of the Toronto Blue Jays, the active leaders behind Molina, would have to play every game for the next 11 seasons with their current clubs.