Deal

Well, glad they finally got that settled.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/4324867.html

Craig Biggio will return for his 20th season with the Astros in 2007. He will be the 24th player ever to play for the same franchise in 20 or more seasons, and the other 23 are pretty good company. 19 are in the Hall of Fame. 2 more probably already have their induction speeches written and will be giving them next summer.

20+ seasons with the same franchise:

Player	Team	Years	Seasons	Hall Induction
Brooks Robinson	Orioles	1955-1977	23	1983
Carl Yastrzemski	Red Sox	1961-1983	23	1989
Cap Anson	Cubs	1876-1897	22	1939
Ty Cobb	Tigers	1905-1926	22	1936
Al Kaline	Tigers	1953-1974	22	1980
Stan Musial	Cardinals	1941-1963	22	1969
Phil Niekro	Braves	1964-1987	21	1997
Mel Ott	Giants	1926-1946	21	1951
Cal Ripken	Orioles	1981-2001	21	2007**
Harmon Killebrew	Senators/ Twins	1954-1974	21	1984
Ted Lyons	White Sox	1923-1946	21	1955
Willie Mays	Giants	1951-1972	21	1979
Hank Aaron	Braves	1954-1974	21	1982
George Brett	Royals	1973-1993	21	1999
Walter Johnson	Senators	1907-1927	21	1936
Willie Stargell	Pirates	1962-1982	21	1988
Alan Trammell	Tigers	1977-1996	20	soon?*
Warren Spahn	Braves	1942-1964	20	1973
Robin Yount	Brewers	1974-1993	20	1999
Luke Appling	White Sox	1930-1950	20	1964
Red Faber	White Sox	1914-1933	20	1964
Tony Gwynn	Padres	1982-2001	20	2007**
Mel Harder	Indians	1928-1947	20

*-Trammell is still on the ballot, but was only named on 17.7% of ballots last year
**-Gwynn and Ripken will be eligible on the 2007 ballot, and if they don't get in that year, I can only assume congress will demand that the Baseball Writers Association of America undergo testing for performance inhibiting drugs.

It's an impressive list of players there, but not one of them was hit by a pitch more than 94 times (Ty Cobb's total). That's only 2 more plunks than Biggio had just at the Astrodome. Walter Johnson hit an impressive 203 batters, but he only got hit 13 times.