Sentences with phrase «league pitcher since»

He had 21 wild pitches last year, the most by any National League pitcher since Tony Cloninger threw 27 away in 1966.

Not exact matches

«He was gracious but explained it was by default since Tim Wakefield is the [big leagues»] only knuckleball pitcher.

Rookie pitchers accounted for nearly 20 % of all starts in the majors last season, the highest such percentage since the World War II era (rookies made better than 22 % of major league starts in each year from 1943 through» 45).

Whatever the case, many of the winningest pitchers and top home run hitters in the major leagues since 1920 were born in close proximity to one another

Baseball purists argue that there's an unfair advantage based on ballpark since American League pitchers don't take batting practice and National League team's rarely have the bench depth to install an above average designated hitter.

The blueprint to follow, ever since the Royals decided shortening the game to make up for their league - average (or worse) starting pitchers was the way to go, was to get as many nigh - unhittable strikeout machines as you could, and then deploy them all one inning at a time until your opponents were weeping while whiffing on pitches they had no chance against.

Jersey City has had minor league baseball teams intermittently since 1878 and has fielded some noteworthy players, such as George Stovey, a black pitcher who won 35 games in 1886, and George (Twinkletoes) Selkirk, the Yankee who was nicknamed after a Jersey show girl.

The CEO and president of Little League International even admits that this is widespread at the local level, and former MLB pitcher Mark Mulder was quoted in the same story as saying Jackie Robinson West specifically has been pulling this stunt since he was a kid in Little League.

The Angels tossed 20 shutouts (which is the most in the AL since» 72), finished second in the league in ERA and became the first AL team in the DH era to have three pitchers (162 - plus innings) with an ERA under 3.00.

The Little League report, as well as articles in the media since its release, appear to downplay the injury risk from curveballs, but a close look at the study reveals no categorical statement that throwing curve balls at an early age is not an injury risk factor; it says only that «baseline risk factors for injury to Little League - age pitchers did not point directly to throwing curveballs.»