Players reacquired by the same team

[Brownieand45sfan]

It's always struck me as weird when a team reacquires a player that it once traded, sold or released. It is like they are saying, "We changed our minds". But it happens a lot, of course.

My questions:

1) Has this ever happened to a player twice? (i.e., being reacquired by two separate teams and therefore having 4 stints, 2 with each team)

2) Has a player ever been reacquired twice by the same team? (i.e. three separate stints with the same team).

Thanks.

[Trivia Guy]

This was a weird one -----

Ron Hassey was involved in three trades between the Yankees and the White Sox within an eight-month period. He was traded by the Yankees in December 1985, but was returned in a February 1986 trade, only to be sent back to Chicago again in July.

[Gee Walker]

Bobo Newsom had FOUR different stints with the Washington Senators. He also had two stints with the Browns and the Dodgers, and spent time with the Cubs, Red Sox, Tigers, A's, Yankees, and Giants. Quite the remarkable career.

[Brownieand45sfan]

I count FIVE stints with the Senators. Amazing!

thanks

Bobo Newsom had FOUR different stints with the Washington Senators. He also had two stints with the Browns and the Dodgers, and spent time with the Cubs, Red Sox, Tigers, A's, Yankees, and Giants. Quite the remarkable career.

[Brownieand45sfan]

On the National League side, Barney Schultz was acquired by the Cardinals three times. The third time was in the off-season of 1967 for one month just to entitle him to a Major League pension.

[Utter Chaos]

I believe Rickey had 4 different stints with the A's and Harold Baines had 3 stints with the White Sox and 3 with the Orioles.

[Utter Chaos]

This stuff sounds vaguely familiar.

http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=59509

[Gee Walker]

I count FIVE stints with the Senators. Amazing!

thanks

Right you are! I missed the ten games that he pitched for the Senators in 1952.

[bluezebra]

How about the "Player to be named later" in a trade, turns out to be THAT player?

Bob

[oaklandman666]

A. Martinez (cant remember his first name) got traded to the Pirates from the Red sox in the Brandon Lyon deal, then got traded back.

[Utter Chaos]

A. Martinez (cant remember his first name) got traded to the Pirates from the Red sox in the Brandon Lyon deal, then got traded back.

Brandon Lyon's Transaction History. Looks like Lyon and Mike Gonzalez got traded back and forth as well.

June 2, 1999: Drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 14th round of the 1999
amateur draft. Player signed May 31, 2000. 

October 9, 2002: Selected off waivers by the Boston Red Sox from the Toronto 
Blue Jays. 

July 22, 2003: Traded by the Boston Red Sox with Anastacio Martinez to the 
Pittsburgh Pirates for Mike Gonzalez and Scott Sauerbeck. 

July 31, 2003: Traded by the Pittsburgh Pirates with Anastacio Martinez and 
Jeff Suppan to the Boston Red Sox for Mike Gonzalez, Freddy Sanchez, and 
cash. 

November 28, 2003: Traded by the Boston Red Sox with Michael Goss 
(minors), Casey Fossum, and Jorge de la Rosa to the Arizona Diamondbacks 
for Curt Schilling.

[PJ-34]

Well Howie Clark, a former Chief broke in to the majors with the O's. The next year he was traded to Toronto where he was usedhalf way through the season as a utiliy guy and hit over.350 that year. The next year he played a bit more with the Jays, then didn't play in the majors in 2005, but the year after that(2006) he was traded and played for the O's for a small amount of time and just this year he was signed again by the Blue Jays and is currently playing for them right now, so his transactions look like this:

2002-O's
2003-Jays
2004-Jays
2005-None(O's organization)
2006-O's
2007-Jays

[flash143817]

Rafael Palmeiro went from Texas to Baltimore, back to Texas, and then back to Baltimore to end his career.

If he hadn't started his career with the Chicago Cubs, he would fit your first question almost to a T.