Sentences with phrase «minor leaguer»

(Deadspin, Minor Leaguer Suspended For Refusing Drug Test Says Testers Went To The Wrong Address: «I'm 28 Years Old.

He is batting worse than a minor leaguer.

Boden and Fleck are best known for a few well - loved indie movies: Half Nelson, which gave us Serious Ryan Gosling; Sugar, a muted and brilliant look at a Dominican minor leaguer in Iowa; and Mississippi Grind, a lovely little gambling movie starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn that is catnip for movie bros everywhere.

Thanks to a chimpanzee who turns out to be a natural baseball player and a born matchmaker, a troubled minor leaguer's life goes on the upswing.

That is covered under the «class» umbrella as the sharp player makes adjustments to roster changes, be it trade, injury, star minor leaguer, surprising and disappointing performers, etc..

«Every minor leaguer has stories like that.

As a young minor leaguer in the Yankee system in the early»40s, Leo Righetti, known as Pinky, was brash, talented and crazy about baseball.

But Koch, acquired from the Blue Jays for third baseman Eric Hinske and a minor leaguer, was a bad fit in one respect: He has historically been at his worst late in the season.

At the age of 29, the minor leaguer has been spit out on the other side.

Earlier, league - leading Canadiens beat New York 2 - 0, then lost able Goalie Jacques Plante, who suffered broken nose in practice session, but called up minor leaguer Bob Perreault in time to stop Chicago 5 - 0.

At least get a solid defensive player if you have to pull in a minor leaguer.

Fangraphs rates his hit tool as a 60 and I've heard scouts say his contact ability is the best they've ever seen in a minor leaguer.

On Aug. 27 West Division - leading Texas, desperate for lefthanded pitching, gave Seattle a minor leaguer to be named later for Fassero.

Evgeni Nabokov, a holdout last season, again played like an elite goalie; center Patrick Marleau, who had three goals against the Blues, replicated his 28 - goal regular season (tying Cheechoo for the team lead); forward Nils Ekman, previously a journeyman minor leaguer, chipped in 55 points while playing fewer than 15 minutes a game.

I could understand the reasons for the others (outside of Alex Wood for a 30 year old minor leaguer) but those two made very little sense at the time.

This is cheating, and I promise I won't use another minor leaguer in this series.

I get that there are always a handful of AAAA guys in every organization, but I can never remember such a dominant Minor Leaguer who fell so flatly on his face.

But the only other minor leaguer who can fill a similar role to Fisher is Kemp and I'm pretty sure they're higher on Fisher.

Lester sat there in 2004, a minor leaguer controlled by a franchise of doom, watching as the doom swirled around his parent club, knowing what to expect, the pain that was going to happen.

A team that's waiting for its stars to come around is much more dangerous than a team waiting for mediocre players and random minor leaguers to assert themselves.

Rob Manfred and Tony Clark will text back and forth about different things they can take from amateur players and minor leaguers until there's a compromise.

It said that Frank Robinson had been named director of baseball operations of the Arizona Fall League, an eight - week developmental league for minor leaguers showing particular promise.

Minor leaguers (who don't have a union) can get heavy suspensions for weed, but there's nothing in MLB's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program that says big leaguers can get suspended for it.

Major league baseball's annual ritual for drafting minor leaguers is here again — with memory tests for the tappers

I figured it would take a lot more than two minor leaguers to get Harold Baines.»

I think meals [that are healthy] would be great [for the minor leaguers to have].

Do you think MLB and MiLB should do more to ensure their minor leaguers are getting access to the food and nutrition they need?

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.

All of which have to do with Alderson, whose moves no longer amaze A's relief stud Dennis Eckersley (himself an Alderson acquisition, plucked from the Chicago Cubs in a trade for three minor leaguers in 1987).

Alderson, meanwhile, traded two minor leaguers — players to be named later — to the Texas Rangers for designated hitter Baines, an All - Star in four of his last six seasons.

Gary Nolan was sent to California for Infielder Craig Hendrickson and a player to be named later; unsigned Rawley Eastwick went to St. Louis in exchange for minor league Pitcher Doug Capilla; Mike Caldwell was dealt to Milwaukee in return for two minor leaguers; and Pat Zachry wound up in New York as part of the Seaver deal.

«A few years ago the common thinking [among Orioles minor leaguers] was you were pitching for every other major league team,» says Kohlmeier.

In return, the Mets got two minor leaguers and a substance abuser to be named later.»

Also headed to the Pirates are a pair of minor leaguers — pitcher Michael Feliz and outfielder Jason Martin.

I still think it's possible we rival the 2011 Phillies rotation, but I also believe we'll see some minor leaguers contribute this season.

Sounds like they want to bring Russell Wilson to spring training, talk w minor leaguers.

The rest of the team was filled with career minor leaguers (Mike Hessman, John Gall), quad - A players who hadn't been able to stick in the majors (Jayson Nix, Brian Barden), and youngish prospects on their way up (Trevor Cahill, Jake Arrieta).

It's not like five minor leaguers are going to show up in the same season after advancing a level each year.

While I respect your opinion, I'm curious what your solution to this situation would be (aside from paying minor leaguers more money).

All I would recommend is paying living wages to minor leaguers as they go through that process, which would help soften the blow.

Forty - one - year - old Stanley Matthews, who has a good head and a great pair of feet, is the idol of minor leaguers and schoolboys.

(«We don't call them minor leaguers,» says John Holland.

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.

They add that the statistics produced are skewed because they are often collected against minor leaguers.

We're not talking about giving minor leaguers a cushy life, we're talking about paying them at the federal minimum wage, which is $ 7.25 per hour, and paying them for the time they actually work.

While I'm unprepared to argue the specific text of the bill, and everyone else has already pointed out how comically underpaid minor league baseball players are, considering they're the lifeblood of a multi-billion dollar industry, I'd like to remind everyone of an often overlooked point about minor leaguers.

It's not just about limiting the salaries of minor leaguers.

That's what's going to happen to 90 percent of minor leaguers.

The Royals were 18 - 29 against lefthanders in» 86, which is why K.C. traded two minor leaguers to Baltimore for Beniquez, who will share righthanded DH duty with player - coach Hal McRae.

Paying minor leaguers a living wage, especially when most of them are going to be spit out on the other side, 10 years older and without any transferable job skills, shouldn't be a radical concept.