Sentences with phrase «above league average»

You no longer see individuals batting 150 points above the league average, or players like Babe Ruth, who often hit more home runs than entire teams.

Through 19 weeks of play, Roma has averaged 2.16 points per game, well above the league average of 1.33, which obviously contributes to their impressive winning percentage (63 %), which is also well above the league average 33 %.

The Dodgers were willing to part with De Leon and more knowing that Dozier's season was an outlier, that he has never played in a large market, that he strikes out above the league average.

They do have an issue of having a starting catcher that will be above league average but half the teams also have that issue and it could turn out to be that Murphy is the starting catcher in the post Iannetta Rockies.

Pitchers like Aaron Cook, Brett Anderson, Jorge De La Rosa, Jhoulys Chacin and Kyle Kendricks have fit the profile as pitchers who induce ground balls at rates above the league average, but I speculated that it would be very profitable to fade these types of pitchers at Coors Field.

Smith plays above league average and the Coyotes become the team nobody wants to play in the opening round of the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

for two months, after which he still hit above league average OPS.

With the exception of projected # 9 hitter Aaron Hicks, every regular in their lineup had an adjusted OPS above the league average.

Not exact matches

Since Ortiz came into the league, he's been a solidly above average hitter in every season, with 10 seasons with an adjusted OPS over 120.

Villa, who fielded an inexperienced team with an average age of just 23, climbed one place to 16th, but they are just two points above the Premier League relegation zone.

Over the past three - plus years, his line - drive percentage is right around the league average — his 18.6 % mark since 2008 is just below Jeff Francoeur and Kurt Suzuki, and just above Jason Kendall.

Injured Padre Jake Peavy (pitching elbow) had averaged a big league high 107.8 pitches per start through Sunday; the Angels» Ervin Santana (above, left) led the AL at 107.5... The Red Sox» Jon Lester (above, right) threw 130 pitches, the most in the majors this year, in his no - hit win over Kansas City on May 19....

It would need to be something like: «This metric and previous metrics above show that Andy Reid has gotten league average play out of his QBs while here in KC, with the vast majority of those plays belonging to Alex Smith, and this holds true for the 2016 season as well.»

Your argument he is an above average player is that he is an aboveaverage player in a poor dutch league.

Can they be developed into reliable, above average big league hitters?

That's a solid, above - average big league shortstop.

Now, McCarthy got hurt, and Kuroda has been just a little above average in the Central League this year, so this isn't to say the Yankees would have been immeasurably better with them under contract.

arsenal have scored 37 goals after 24 matches, the top 3 teams all score 44 or above... arsenal give away only 21 goals, top 3 give away average of 25, our problem is not mert, flamini... all the players we seem to hate, our defense is number 3 in the league, our problem is we can not score

1) Southampton (26.2)-- Having spent time in League One, Southampton are now riding high, 26.2 places above their average position.

Another problem with pooh - poohing the Royals» rotation in comparison to the Mets» starting four is that the Mets have a slightly above average Major League lineup.

Since Ortiz came into the league, he's accounted for almost a third of the above - average seasons from every DH who qualified for the batting title.

I hope Xhaka is benched for yhis game.If's funny how people can ever think for a moment that Xhaka is better than Wilshere.Wilsherefor all his injuries and unrealised potential is twice the player Xhaka is and a level above Ramsey in technique, talent and ability.I didn't like how people used the Europa league maych to judgr him at all after he had shown world class performances in previous matches.I just don't get why people love Xhaka.People call Coquelin average but if played in his actual position and not this box - to - box or whatever he will defend brillianly and give it to his more reliable partner which quite unfortunately we don't havd at the moment.

Cole actually hasn't been a high - end starter except for in one season of his career, in 2015 when he threw 208 innings with a 2.60 ERA: in the last two seasons, Cole has produced a 103 ERA + — just above league - average — and thrown 319 innings.

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.

Like I said, this one is kind of a stretch, but the Wolves do have two top - 15 players in the league and a well above average number three option in Wiggins.

The Bengals have the league's best defense, allowing just 16.9 points per game while the Cardinals defense has been above average, allowing 20.6 points per game.

In most of the leagues, however, the players amassing the highest xG numbers are also converting those numbers at an above average rate.

Last season, he was an above - average fielder and was quietly one of the league's best baserunners.

«He was a big player in the league but his performances were between average and above average most of the time.

well the truth is arsenal will need a miracle to win the league under wenger (realisstically) cos the psycological disavantage of top 4 every year has eaten deep into the team, ther4 pushing above average will not be easy especially if wenger is still there cos he represents mediocrity.he is the father of mediocrity and he will always get top 4.

The analysis of the average experience capital of big - 5 league players is also useful in establishing thresholds above which players from outside these championships have a concrete possibility of successfully joining the five major European competitions in the near future.

Our analysis also allows us to highlight goalkeepers whose experience capital is well above the average measured for all big - 5 league goalkeepers at the same age: Mouez Hassan (Nice), Paul Nardi (Monaco), Pau López (Espanyol), Jan Oblak (Atlético Madrid), Timo Horn (Cologne), Alphonse Aréola (Villarreal, on loan from Paris St - Germain), Loris Karius (Mainz) and Jack Butland (Stoke).

West Brom suffered the highest number of muscular problems in the division, more than double the league average while neighbours Aston Villa lost the highest number of days (54) per muscular injury — a figure 55 % above the norm.

A fringe player in the main Nigeria national team he had an above average showing for the B team at the 2016 CHAN Championship and he is rated as one of the best players in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).

One other point from the above article is definitely worth mentioning here: the Champions in the Premier League for the previous seven seasons averaged 66 % on this front (though Leicester went onto win the title with only 56 %, putting a slight dent in this), so Klopp's team have started 2016/17 very well indeed.

Some say it is a ploy to sell season tickets, but surely if there is any truth in the 46,280 renewal rate (90 %, which incidentally is way above the Premier League average, and significantly more than many forecast), and a waiting list of 50,000 plus, then that would be totally unnecessary?

With THFC moving to Wembley full time in 2017/18, they are now the club with the second highest average attendance in the Premier League (Manchester United are first), moving above the likes of Arsenal, -LSB-...]

If you graduated from an Ivy League school or if you boast an above average GPA, list these accomplishments at the start of the CV, immediately below the career objective.