benchwarmer

It is this admiration from teammates that has elevated Moss from an anonymous benchwarmer to the most important person on this team.

The author, singling out Little, argued that being an occasional swing vote meant Little was a benchwarmer who lacked the courage “to take the new culture war by the horns.”

Nine years later, he had helped lead the Dodgers to eight division championships and three World Series appearances while evolving from benchwarmer to legend with his accessibility, inclusivity and homespun charm.

Plenty of players leave high-majors for low-majors, or even lower divisions, where they might go from benchwarmer to starter.

Card, whose Texas career pinballed from starter to benchwarmer only to see Sarkisian court another hotshot like Ewers, opted to stay even though he is more than a year away from graduation.