Milestone Appearances

Which players have made 100, 200, or even 300 appearances for a single MLS club? These numbers include all (meaningful) competitions. Since the last update (before the 2007 season), we've inducted 10 new members of the 100 club, 2 new members of the 200 club, and 1 new member of the 300 club. It may take many more years for a 400 club to form; unfortunately Cobi Jones was at 392 when he retired. Interestingly, 10 new 100 club members is the fewest for any year since the first man did it (see below for yearly data and more stats). (bold = still with team currently) 100 Appearances For A Single MLS Team 1 Richie Williams DC 7/15/1998 2 Jason Kreis DAL 8/15/1998 3 Jeff Agoos DC 8/22/1998 4 Mark Chung KC 8/29/1998 5 Mark Dodd DAL 9/10/1998 6 John Harkes DC 9/13/1998 7 Ted Eck DAL 9/19/1998 8 Greg Vanney LA 9/20/1998 9 Steve Ralston TB 9/24/1998 10 Steve Trittschuh COL 9/26/1998 11 Tony Meola NY 9/30/1998 12 Mike Clark CLB 10/3/1998 13 Marco Etcheverry DC 10/25/1998 14 Mauricio Cienfuegos LA 4/17/1999 15 Eddie Pope DC 4/24/1999 15 Mo Johnston KC 4/24/1999 15 Preki KC 4/24/1999 15 Cobi Jones LA 4/24/1999 19 Eddie Lewis SJ 4/30/1999 20 Mark Santel DAL 5/8/1999 21 Sean Bowers KC 5/15/1999 21 Vitalis Takawira KC 5/15/1999 21 John Doyle SJ 5/15/1999 24 Todd Yeagley CLB 5/22/1999 25 Robin Fraser LA 5/29/1999 26 Jeff Baicher SJ 6/12/1999 27 Jaime Moreno DC 6/13/1999 28 Richard Farrer DAL 6/19/1999 29 Uche Okafor KC 6/20/1999 30 Robert Warzycha CLB 6/30/1999 31 Brandon Pollard DAL 8/4/1999 32 Marcelo Balboa COL 8/13/1999 33 Brian McBride CLB 8/22/1999 34 Dante Washington DAL 9/11/1999 35 Mike Burns NE 9/18/1999 36 Ted Chronopoulos NE 10/2/1999 37 Peter Vermes COL 10/6/1999 38 Brian Maisonneuve CLB 10/10/1999 39 Jorge Rodriguez DAL 10/16/1999 40 Ansil Elcock CLB 11/13/1999 41 Paul Bravo COL 3/25/2000 41 Danny Pena LA 3/25/2000 43 Miles Joseph NY 3/26/2000 44 Jason Farrell CLB 5/27/2000 45 Carlos Llamosa DC 6/21/2000 45 Kevin Hartman LA 6/21/2000 47 Carlos Valderrama TB 6/28/2000 48 Paul Caligiuri LA 7/25/2000 49 Carey Talley DC 7/26/2000 50 Jesse Marsch CHI 8/9/2000 50 Eric Dade DAL 8/9/2000 52 Matt McKeon KC 8/18/2000 53 Ross Paule COL 8/20/2000 54 Ante Razov CHI 8/26/2000 54 Imad Baba NE 8/26/2000 56 Ezra Hendrickson LA 9/8/2000 57 C.J. Brown CHI 9/9/2000 58 Zach Thornton CHI 9/19/2000 59 Peter Nowak CHI 10/21/2000 60 Jeff Cunningham CLB 4/11/2001 61 Chris Martinez COL 4/21/2001 61 Tab Ramos NY 4/21/2001 61 Ronald Cerritos SJ 4/21/2001 64 Mike Petke NY 5/2/2001 65 Mike Lapper CLB 5/5/2001 66 Chris Armas CHI 5/30/2001 67 Leo Cullen MIA 6/16/2001 68 Diego Gutierrez CHI 6/27/2001 69 Diego Serna MIA 6/30/2001 70 Chad Deering DAL 7/4/2001 70 Pablo Mastroeni MIA 7/4/2001 72 Chris Klein KC 7/29/2001 73 Brian West CLB 8/1/2001 74 Oscar Pareja DAL 8/29/2001 75 Matt Jordan DAL 9/29/2001 76 Simon Elliot LA 10/10/2001 77 Chris Henderson COL 3/23/2002 78 Petter Villegas NY 3/23/2002 79 Wade Barrett SJ 4/17/2002 80 Dema Kovalenko CHI 4/20/2002 81 Chris Brown KC 4/27/2002 81 Richard Mulrooney SJ 4/27/2002 81 Troy Dayak SJ 4/27/2002 84 Joe Cannon SJ 7/4/2002 85 Josh Wolff CHI 7/17/2002 86 Kerry Zavagnin KC 7/24/2002 87 Nick Garcia KC 7/31/2002 88 Ben Olsen DC 8/10/2002 89 Jimmy Conrad SJ 9/14/2002 90 Sasha Victorine LA 10/9/2002 91 Tony Meola KC 4/12/2003 91 Steve Jolley NY 4/12/2003 93 Bobby Rhine DAL 4/26/2003 93 Danny Califf LA 4/26/2003 95 Paul Broome DAL 5/3/2003 96 Carlos Bocanegra CHI 5/31/2003 97 Wolde Harris NE 6/14/2003 97 Ian Russell SJ 6/14/2003 99 Francisco Gomez KC 6/28/2003 99 Ramiro Corrales SJ 6/28/2003 101 Joe Franchino NE 7/16/2003 102 DaMarcus Beasley CHI 8/20/2003 103 Peter Vagenas LA 9/6/2003 104 Joe-Max Moore NE 9/28/2003 105 Evan Whitfield CHI 10/15/2003 106 Rusty Pierce NE 11/1/2003 107 Manny Lagos SJ 11/15/2003 108 Jim Curtin CHI 5/15/2004 109 Landon Donovan SJ 6/17/2004 109 Ronnie Ekelund SJ 6/17/2004 111 Diego Gutierrez KC 6/19/2004 112 Bobby Convey DC 6/26/2004 113 Jay Heaps NE 7/4/2004 114 Duncan Oughton CLB 8/21/2004 115 Dwayne De Rosario SJ 8/28/2004 115 Jeff Agoos SJ 8/28/2004 117 John Spencer COL 10/2/2004 118 Edson Buddle CLB 10/16/2004 119 Ritchie Kotschau COL 10/22/2004 120 Steve Ralston NE 11/6/2004 121 Kelly Gray CHI 4/9/2005 121 Wolde Harris COL 4/9/2005 123 Bryan Namoff DC 5/21/2005 124 Brandon Prideaux DC 6/15/2005 125 Tyrone Marshall LA 6/25/2005 126 Kyle Martino CLB 6/29/2005 127 Taylor Twellman NE 7/22/2005 128 Chris Albright LA 8/10/2005 129 Nick Rimando DC 8/27/2005 130 Kyle Beckerman COL 9/3/2005 131 Davy Arnaud KC 10/15/2005 132 Brian Mullan SJ 10/23/2005 133 Shalrie Joseph NE 4/1/2006 134 Jimmy Conrad KC 4/15/2006 135 Jon Busch CLB 5/20/2006 136 Pat Noonan NE 6/3/2006 137 Logan Pause CHI 6/17/2006 137 Mark Lisi NY 6/17/2006 139 Ronnie O'Brien DAL 6/24/2006 140 Justin Mapp CHI 7/8/2006 141 Amado Guevara NY 7/14/2006 141 Mike Magee NY 7/14/2006 143 Brian Carroll DC 7/22/2006 144 Bo Oshoniyi KC 8/12/2006 145 Nate Jaqua CHI 8/16/2006 146 Jose Burciaga KC 8/30/2006 147 Josh Gros DC 9/3/2006 148 Matt Reis NE 9/20/2006 149 Jose Cancela NE 9/30/2006 150 Freddy Adu DC 10/9/2006 151 Pablo Mastroeni COL 10/14/2006 152 Chris Gbandi DAL 4/15/2007 153 Andy Dorman NE 4/29/2007 154 Jack Jewsbury KC 5/12/2007 155 Christian Gomez DC 5/26/2007 156 Jeff Parke NY 6/30/2007 157 John Wolyniec NY 7/5/2007 158 Chad Marshall CLB 7/14/2007 159 Clint Mathis NY 8/18/2007 160 Bobby Boswell DC 10/2/2007 161 Michael Parkhurst NE 10/20/2007 200 Appearances For A Single MLS Team 1 Jason Kreis DAL 8/4/2001 2 Greg Vanney LA 8/11/2001 3 Mauricio Cienfuegos LA 8/18/2001 4 Mike Clark CLB 8/29/2001 5 Cobi Jones LA 3/23/2002 6 Marco Etcheverry DC 6/19/2002 7 Richie Williams DC 6/29/2002 8 Preki KC 4/12/2003 9 Jesse Marsch CHI 8/20/2003 10 Zach Thornton CHI 8/30/2003 11 Kevin Hartman LA 10/25/2003 12 Brian McBride CLB 10/26/2003 13 Jaime Moreno DC 4/24/2004 14 C.J. Brown CHI 5/1/2004 14 Brian Maisonneuve CLB 5/1/2004 16 Jeff Cunningham CLB 7/10/2004 17 Chris Klein KC 8/14/2004 18 Chris Henderson COL 4/23/2005 19 Chris Armas CHI 6/18/2005 20 Nick Garcia KC 7/20/2005 21 Kerry Zavagnin KC 8/6/2005 22 Oscar Pareja DAL 9/10/2005 23 Ben Olsen DC 4/22/2006 24 Bobby Rhine DAL 8/12/2006 25 Jay Heaps NE 6/2/2007 26 Peter Vagenas LA 6/9/2007 300 Appearances For A Single MLS Team 1 Cobi Jones LA 6/4/2005 2 Kevin Hartman LA 9/6/2006 3 Jaime Moreno DC 10/15/2006 4 C.J. Brown CHI 8/4/2007 Summary Times First Man 100 Appearances 161 Richie Williams 200 Appearances 26 Jason Kreis 300 Appearances 4 Cobi Jones Williams achieved the milestone in DC's 106th game. Kreis achieved the milestone in Dallas' 214th game. Jones achieved the milestone in LA's 356th game. There have been 1,119 players to make an appearance for an MLS team. That means 14.4% are in the 100 club, 2.3% are in the 200 club, and 0.4% are in the 300 club. 100 Appearances With Two Different Clubs Jeff Agoos (DC, SJ) Jimmy Conrad (SJ, KC) Diego Gutierrez (CHI, KC) Wolde Harris (NE, COL) Pablo Mastroeni (MIA, COL) Tony Meola (NY, KC) Steve Ralston (TB, NE) Team Breakdown Of Milestone Players 100 200 300 CHI 17 4 1 CHV 0 0 0 CLB 15 4 0 COL 12 1 0 DAL 16 3 0 DC 18 4 1 HOU 0 0 0 KC 19 4 0 LA 14 5 2 MIA 3 0 0 NE 16 1 0 NY 12 0 0 RSL 0 0 0 SJ 17 0 0 TB 2 0 0 TOR 0 0 0 Yearly Breakdown Of Milestone Players 100 200 300 1996 0 0 0 1997 0 0 0 1998 13 0 0 1999 27 0 0 2000 19 0 0 2001 17 4 0 2002 14 3 0 2003 17 5 0 2004 13 5 0 2005 12 5 1 2006 19 2 2 2007 10 2 1 Most Overall Appearances Without Reaching 100 For Any Club 1 Scott Garlick 267 2 Andy Williams 262 3 Brian Kamler 255 4 Roy Lassiter 224 5 Alexi Lalas 203 6 Brian Dunseth 194 6 David Vaudreuil 194 8 Ivan McKinley 193 9 Orlando Perez 187 10 Eric Denton 186 Mathis drops off here from last year. Alejandro Moreno should be on here after 2008.

MLS: Biggest One Year Improvements & Collapses

The biggest changes from one season to another. Measured by PPG, with shootouts counted as draws. Top Ten Biggest Improvements PPG Previous Change 1 2000 New York 1.688 0.625 1.063 2 2000 Kansas City 1.781 0.813 0.969 3 2001 San Jose 1.731 0.906 0.825 4 2006 Chivas USA 1.344 0.563 0.781 5 2001 Miami 2.038 1.281 0.757 6 2005 New England 1.844 1.100 0.744 7 2005 San Jose 2.000 1.267 0.733 8 1998 Los Angeles 2.188 1.500 0.688 9 2008 Columbus 1.900 1.233 0.667 10 2002 Colorado 1.536 0.885 0.651 The 1998 Galaxy are the only team on the list who were above-average in the previous season; most were downright awful. Top Ten Biggest Collapses PPG Previous Change 1 2001 Tampa Bay 0.519 1.625 -1.106 2 2000 DC United 0.938 1.875 -0.938 3 2003 Dallas 0.767 1.536 -0.769 4 2004 Chicago 1.100 1.767 -0.667 5 2002 Chicago 1.321 1.963 -0.642 6 2003 Los Angeles 1.200 1.821 -0.621 7 2008 DC United 1.233 1.833 -0.600 8 1999 New York 0.625 1.219 -0.594 9 1998 Kansas City 1.125 1.594 -0.469 10 2001 Colorado 0.885 1.344 -0.459

Happenings

1) Mo Johnston steps down as Toronto FC head coach. Such a good move for TFC, which will probably do more for their chances this season than any player acquisition. 2) Several good MLS players leave for Europe on free transfers. Andy Dorman (St. Mirren) Clarence Goodson (IK Start) Nate Jaqua (SC Rheindorf Altach) Clint Mathis (Ergotelis FC) Joseph Ngwenya (SK Austria Karnten) Pat Noonan (Aalesund FK) I don't see this as something to worry about. The problem will correct itself in the future. As MLS teams become profitable and increase their revenues, the salary cap will increase and many players like these will have no need to leave for salary reasons. Until then, we'll just have to deal with a few good players leaving every year. It might affect the quality of play slightly, but these departures will have no affect on the future success of MLS. One Blanco means many times more to the league than all six combined. 3) Michael Bradley tearing it up in the Netherlands. Certainly a lock for YA of the Year. Amazing to see an American playing so well offensively in one of the world's top leagues. And despite my reservations on his USMNT playing time a year ago, it turns out Bob was doing the right thing. Actually, Bob Bradley has exactly the right strategy in playing the young guys. While I still think he hands out caps undeservingly (Lee Nguyen, Jeremiah White), we need to use our young players because we can't win a World Cup with the old ones and that's the ultimate goal. Veterans are not going to magically turn into world class players, but young players have a chance. 4) ESPN announcers for 2008 will be JP Dellacamera and John Harkes. You win some, you lose some. Dave O'Brien had improved, but he was still not good and was a stupid choice to begin with. Eric Wynalda, on the other hand, may not have been the greatest analyst but was fascinating to listen to. It was refreshing to hear someone actually say what they were thinking, and I'll miss that when I listen to the boring Harkes. Apparently some of you will miss him as well. Overall I'd say this is more positive than negative, though. 5) MLS continues march to major league status. Just look at all the amazing things that have happened in the past month. Eddie Johnson and Brad Guzan were highly sought after and commanded multi-million dollar transfer fees. Bryan Arguez, who never played a minute in MLS, transferred to a Bundesliga team and made his debut today. Cities are actually fighting over who gets an MLS expansion team. Martin Vasquez is going to Bayern Munich. Just an amazing time to be a fan, and though we've got a ways to go, it seems closer than ever. It's like I said a year ago: You can't go back to being a child after you hit puberty. The David Beckham signing has given the league more attention, fans, revenue, and respect than ever before, and you have to build on that.