10,000 Minute Club

With the calendar switching to 2016 it's time to once again update all of my stats. We'll start with the 10,000 minute club, players that have played 10,000 or more minutes in both league play and in all competitions.

In league play Sporting KC added one player to the club this year as Seth Sinovic easily jumped onto the list even though his season was shortened by injury this year as he comes in at 16th on the list. Matt Besler moved past Jack Jewsbury this past season and with good health in 2016 could jump all the way to fourth by the end of the season. Graham Zusi moved himself all the way into the top 10 this season, jumping from 15th to 9th place. In the coming season there are two players that should make the club as Chance Myers is only 40 minutes away from making it and Roger Espinoza is just over 250 minutes away from making his way onto the list.

1. Kerry Zavagnin - 20,516
2. Nick Garcia - 20,158
3. Davy Arnaud - 19,399
4. Jimmy Conrad - 18,194
5. Preki - 17,818
6. Chris Klein - 16,381
7. Matt Besler - 15,946
8. Jack Jewsbury - 13,275
9. Graham Zusi - 12,676
10. Mo Johnston - 12,600
11. Michael Harrington - 11,633
12. Matt McKeon - 11,584
13. Jimmy Nielsen - 11,497
14. Josh Wolff - 11,467
15. Tony Meola - 11,331
16. Seth Sinovic - 10,788

In all competitions just one player joined that list as well as Espinoza became the 22nd player to hit the 10,000 minute mark in all competitions. Further up the list, Besler should become the sixth player in club history to hit the 20,000 minute mark this season as he is less than 750 minutes away from that mark. He could also very easily be in third place all time in terms of minutes played by the end of next season as he is less than 2,400 minutes away from third place Davy Arnaud. It'd get him one step closer to one of the goals he had set after the World Cup before he signed a new contract with KC, stating he wanted to own every record for appearance and minutes played for the team. As for who could join the list in 2016, Benny Feilhaber is less than 1,100 minutes away from making the list, so he'd be a good candidate to make it. If KC were to re-sign Paulo Nagamura, playing just under 2,000 minutes would get him onto the list and Dom Dwyer playing just over 2,500 minutes would get him onto the list as well, so there could be a number of players joining the list during this coming season.

1. Kerry Zavagnin - 25,290
2. Nick Garcia - 24,650
3. Davy Arnaud - 21,607
4. Preki - 20,647
5. Jimmy Conrad - 20,551
6. Chris Klein - 19,437
7. Matt Besler - 19,252
8. Graham Zusi - 15,413
9. Jack Jewsbury - 14,973
10. Matt McKeon - 14,602
11. Tony Meola - 14,205
12. Mo Johnston - 14,182
13. Seth Sinovic - 13,541
14. Michael Harrington - 13,276
15. Josh Wolff - 12,939
16. Jimmy Nielsen - 12,847
17. Diego Gutierrez - 12,246
18. Chance Myers - 12,186
19. Aurelien Collin - 11,464
20. Roger Espinoza - 11,355
21. Jose Burciaga - 10,624
22. Uche Okafor - 10,281