MLS: Most Games Played w/Only One Team

Here's the top 50 (all competitions), and one team refers to within MLS only: 1 Jones, Cobi 392 LA 2 Brown, C.J. 344 CHI 3 Olsen, Ben 284 DC 4 Cienguegos, Mauricio 270 LA 5 Clark, Mike 265 CLB 6 Namoff, Bryan 260 DC 7 Rhine, Bobby 247 DAL 8 Etcheverry, Marco 241 DC 9 Joseph, Shalrie 229 NE 10 Arnaud, Davy 220 KC 11 Twellman, Taylor 211 NE 12 Pause, Logan 210 CHI 13 Maisonneuve, Brian 208 CLB 14 Farrer, Richard 190 DAL 15 Jewsbury, Jack 189 KC 16 Rodriguez, Jorge 188 DAL 17 Warzycha, Robert 187 CLB 18 Eck, Ted 183 DAL 19 Simms, Clyde 177 DC 20 Deering, Chad 175 DAL 21 Johnston, Mo 169 KC 22 West, Brian 167 CLB 22 Yeagley, Todd 167 CLB 24 Marshall, Chad 159 CLB 25 Oughton, Duncan 158 CLB 26 Dayak, Troy 149 SJ 26 Rolfe, Chris 149 CHI 28 Nowak, Peter 147 CHI 29 Parke, Jeff 143 NY 30 Gros, Josh 141 DC 31 Doyle, John 140 SJ 32 Larentowicz, Jeff 139 NE 33 Parkhurst, Michael 138 NE 34 Beasley, DaMarcus 135 CHI 35 Stammler, Seth 134 NY 36 Dorman, Andy 131 NE 36 Ramos, Tab 131 NY 38 Lapper, Mike 130 CLB 38 Okafor, Uche 130 KC 38 Segares, Gonzalo 130 CHI 41 Pollard, Brandon 129 DAL 42 Mendoza, Francisco 127 CHV 43 Gbandi, Chris 126 DAL 44 Martinez, Chris 124 COL 45 Holden, Stuart 122 HOU 46 Bocanegra, Carlos 120 CHI 46 Bowers, Sean 120 KC 46 Farrell, Jason 120 CLB 46 Kljestan, Sacha 120 CHV 46 Mendes, Carlos 120 NY Bold = currently active in MLS. The Crew have the most players here with 9, followed by Chicago and Dallas with 7. Larentowicz should be leaving the list once the season starts (that is, if the... oh, forget it). If you're wondering who's played the most games for only one team before then playing for another, the answer is Kevin Hartman with 307. He's followed by Jason Kreis and Nick Garcia. The next highest active players are Jonathan Bornstein, Alan Gordon, Fred, Devon McTavish, Corey Ashe, Jacob Peterson, Michael Harrington, and Dario Sala. All have at least 100 games.

OTFATT 2009: Final Update

Previous Updates #1 4/12 68 players remaining #2 5/25 34 players remaining #3 6/25 23 players remaining #4 7/19 11 players remaining #5 8/17 5 players remaining OTFATT is short for "On the field, all the time." In these updates throughout the season, I've kept track of which MLS players have played every minute of every game (regular season only). The season is over, and we have four survivors: three you could've guessed in March (Busch, Hartman, Onstad) and one that shocked everyone (Barnes). The only player to drop off in the past two months was Joe Cannon, who was rested by San Jose in a couple of their meaningless final games. Darrius Barnes benefited from the injury to Gabrielle Badilla in preseason and never looked back. Kind of like Michael Parkhurst's story, who replaced the worn out Carlos Llamosa in 2005. The two NE center backs from ACC colleges are the last two rookies to accomplish the feat. Nick Garcia in 2000 is the only other rookie on the list below. Some stats: Playing every minute is still a rare feat, it's only happened 39 times over the past 14 seasons (by 29 different players). Goalkeepers have taken the all time edge over field players: 20-19. That's actually the first time they've held the edge in league history, and I'd be shocked to see it swing back the other way. KC players have accomplished OTFATT 10 times, leading the league. Runners up are NE with 7. 5 teams have not had a player play every minute: CHV, DAL, MIA, SEA, and TOR. Kevin Hartman has played every minute for three straight season; that's unprecedented. He holds the league record for consecutive minutes played. Jon Busch is back on the list for a second straight year. He's the sixth player to repeat after Peter Vermes (1999-00), Scott Garlick (2000-01), Pat Onstad (2005-06), Matt Reis (2006-07), and Kevin Hartman (2007-09). A total of 8 players have multiple appearances: the six mentioned in the last bullet point, and also Joe Cannon and Nick Rimando. Pat Onstad didn't repeat, but he's still standing for a third time. That's a record now shared by him and Hartman. All this while becoming the league's second oldest player ever. 1996-2009: Played Every Minute (players in bold played every minute of every game in all competitions, goalkeepers in italics) 1996 Preki (KC), Steve Trittschuh (COL) 1997 Mike Burns (NE) 1998 (none) 1999 Peter Vermes (COL) 2000 Joseph Addo (TB), Nick Garcia (KC), Scott Garlick (TB), Peter Vermes (KC) 2001 Scott Garlick (TB/COL), Tim Howard (NY), Steve Jolley (NY), Zach Thornton (CHI), Kerry Zavagnin (KC) 2002 Nick Rimando (DC) 2003 Tony Meola (KC) 2004 Joe Cannon (COL), Jim Curtin (CHI), Richard Mulrooney (SJ), Steve Ralston (NE) 2005 Todd Dunivant (LA), Simon Elliott (CLB), Pat Onstad (SJ), Bo Oshoniyi (KC), Michael Parkhurst (NE) 2006 Pat Onstad (HOU), Matt Reis (NE) 2007 Kevin Hartman (KC), Chris Klein (RSL/LA), Matt Reis (NE) 2008 Jon Busch (CHI), Joe Cannon (SJ), Jimmy Conrad (KC), Kevin Hartman (KC), Jay Heaps (NE), Nick Rimando (RSL) 2009 Darrius Barnes (NE), Jon Busch (CHI), Kevin Hartman (KC), Pat Onstad (HOU) Order of teams being totally wiped out for 2009, with last surviving player: 1. NY - Dane Richards (4/18) 2. CLB - Brian Carroll (5/27) 3. SEA - Jhon Kennedy Hurtado (6/14) 4. RSL - Will Johnson (6/27) 5. LA - Omar Gonzalez (6/28) 6. TOR - Adrian Serioux (7/18) 7. COL - Jordan Harvey (7/18) 8. DAL - David Ferreira (8/1) 9. CHV - Carey Talley & Zach Thornton (8/8) 10. DC - Bryan Namoff (8/15) 11. SJ - Joe Cannon (9/27) *Toronto's Nick Garcia was eliminated on 8/15. However, he was traded mid-season and had played every minute he was available for two teams - SJ & TOR. Toronto themselves had no players left after Adrian Serioux.