Sentences with phrase «leaguers into»

Kenny and his staff are turning d - leaguers into rotation players and saving veteran careers.

Not everyone is up for feeling like the moment you have molded a group of rookies and D - Leaguers into a semblance of a competitive squad that before you get to crack your first satisfied smile, the team is torn apart again.

U of T and Cornell shared the 16th last year, but now Toronto has edged the Ivy - leaguer into 17th place and remains among the Top 20 for the third year in a row.

Not exact matches

Very, very rarely, they turn into major leaguers as valuable as Cole Hamels.

Well, two weeks into the 2016 season, Team Darcy has defeated Team Lalez (who have won 4 total All Sports Crowns), and Team Cohen, which was laced with former NBA D - leaguers on Tuesday night.

In his first four seasons as a major - leaguer, first with the New York Mets and since 1972 with the Expos, Foli managed to get into more fights with opposing players, umpires, and even his own teammates, and to hit more innocent bystanders with thrown helmets, bats and balls than the average high - spirited player might in a 20 - year career.

Alderson had peddled reserve outfielder Felix (the Other) Jose, who had been filling in for the injured Henderson, and two more minor leaguers to St. Louis for centerfielder McGee, whose.335 average with the Cardinals may well be good enough to win the National League batting race — at just about the time McGee swings into the American League Championship Series.

Mine is that if you don't want to get hit or thrown at until you do, don't be a jackass and slide into second with your cleats in the air when even Little Leaguer's know how to properly slide.

John Wilson of the Los Angeles Kings, who coached hockey at Princeton some years ago before moving into the professional game, remarked that Harkness would have to take a rather different approach with his professional athletes than he did with his Ivy Leaguers.

In the wake of unfair wage lawsuits taken up against the league by players — which the league has emerged victorious from so far — MLB is pushing harder than ever to make sure minor leaguers are not privy to the benefits of normal hourly workers, lobbying lawmakers constantly to push this into law.

Unfortunately, the ballfields have fallen into disrepair in recent years, leaving Little Leaguers and many other sports teams without a place to play on account of poor drainage.

Since your fellow Gay Leaguers will probably be curious, why not write about how you got into comics?

The A's would draft good players and turn them into successful major leaguers, but as soon those players became free agents they would leave for big - market teams.

The ads remind us (accurately) that half the electricity in America comes from coal, then shows images of little girls getting tucked into bed at night or Little Leaguers playing ball under the lights.