Sentences with phrase «as minor league»

Inside the Interwebs About Blog Rays Index is an independent sports blog, that covers The Tampa Bay Rays Professional Baseball Club as well as their minor league affiliates.

Inside the Interwebs About Blog Rays Index is an independent sports blog, that covers The Tampa Bay Rays Professional Baseball Club as well as their minor league affiliates.

Inside the Interwebs About Blog Rays Index is an independent sports blog, that covers The Tampa Bay Rays Professional Baseball Club as well as their minor league affiliates.

Inside the Interwebs About Blog Rays Index is an independent sports blog, that covers The Tampa Bay Rays Professional Baseball Club as well as their minor league affiliates.

Inside the Interwebs About Blog Rays Index is an independent sports blog, that covers The Tampa Bay Rays Professional Baseball Club as well as their minor league affiliates.

That movie came across as minor league because none of the actors could act in English.

Inside the Interwebs About Blog Rays Index is an independent sports blog, that covers The Tampa Bay Rays Professional Baseball Club as well as their minor league affiliates.

Inside the Interwebs About Blog Rays Index is an independent sports blog, that covers The Tampa Bay Rays Professional Baseball Club as well as their minor league affiliates.

At 30 years old, Patterson - Sewell is probably pretty well - established as a minor league depth keeper.

We signed [infielder - outfielder] Rex Hudler and [outfielder] Otis Nixon as minor league free agents, and they've become two of the best role players in the game.»

Kurt Suzuki has # 24 and RAJ not doing very well so far with that one as a «Striper» though he did as a minor league «Brave».

The 68 - year - old baseball veteran has been the Mets skipper since 2011, after joining the organization the year before as a minor league field coordinator.

In 2013, it was awarded the Miami Science Museum and Aquarium located in downtown Miami as well as minor league baseball and performing arts facilities.

(For the record, I don't view traditional publishing as the major leagues and indie publishing as the minor leagues.

And is it something where you're going to throw an Invicta FC into the game to serve as the minor leagues?

Not exact matches

That's how Tony Fisher got his start — he joined the company as an analyst in 1999, after he was drafted by the Texas Rangers baseball organization and played for two years in the minor leagues.

James went on to say that he wishes the NCAA would have a stronger minor league or farm system, and mentioned European soccer academies as an example.

But while the League of Nations did assist with minor international disputes, it had little real power for dealing with issues such as the Japanese invasion of Asia, Italian expansion in Africa and German aggression in Europe.

After service as an Army officer in World War II, he was playing shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League when he was signed to a minor league contract by «The Mahatma,» Branch Rickey, a cigar - chomping Methodist and the Dodgers» general maLeague when he was signed to a minor league contract by «The Mahatma,» Branch Rickey, a cigar - chomping Methodist and the Dodgers» general maleague contract by «The Mahatma,» Branch Rickey, a cigar - chomping Methodist and the Dodgers» general manager.

Also since the minor leagues arent as serious guys often get pulled if they are mildly injured or for other reasons (I went to see Meadows last year and I did nt find out he wasnt playing until that day - he apparently did nt play the whole series even tho he did nt have a severe injury... I was super bummed)

Baseball - Reference doesn't have the pitch counts of all his minor league starts, with gaps during his time in the California League, but as far as we can tell, his 51 pitches were a careerleague starts, with gaps during his time in the California League, but as far as we can tell, his 51 pitches were a careerLeague, but as far as we can tell, his 51 pitches were a career high.

He actually had a very successful minor league career as a reliever, and was worth as much in 10 starts with the Rangers in 2014 as Ariel Miranda was to the Mariners in 29 last year.

WWE's «minor league» promotion, NXT, is set to have its largest event ever on Saturday night, as NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn comes to the sold - out Barclays Center.

vs. the newest expansion team, the Napa Silverados, offer a high level of professional, minor league baseball as well as a fun and unique fan experience including great food, family - based entertainment and «outside the box» promotions and special events.

In 1971, after another minor - league season in which he batted.261 and hit six home runs, Foli finally did make the Mets in spring training, and it was then that The Sporting News described him as «King of the Rednecks.»

As football coach at Amherst, before he came to Brown, he had effectively thumbed his nose at Princeton's famed Coach Bill Roper when the arrogant Roper decided to play his second team against Tuss's boys, since they were so obviously minor league.

So the teams make nearly zero investment up front, as opposed to hockey and baseball where they have to spend a draft pick prior to putting the kid into their minor leagues.

ESPN.com does use wire services like the Associated Press for most game recaps and much of the league's day - to - day news, and the AP uses software as described by Cuban to recap some minor league baseball games.

They could then be used or traded, as is most advantageous, as the Tigers» minor league pitchers move to the majors in the next 4 years.

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.

After not appearing in affiliated ball in the United States or Japan since 2011, after not appearing in a level higher than an American independent league since 2014, the soon - to - be 41 - year - old got a minor - league deal from the Baltimore Orioles after spending years reinventing himself as a knuckleballer.

He had knocked around the minor leagues, just as Fred's older brother, Tom, would.

Johnson, who had been preparing to report to the Devil Rays next week for minor league assignment as a third baseman, learned last week that he had a small cyst on his right shoulder.

He came out of nowhere, and if you're not a Mariners fan, he serves as a reminder that your favorite team's minor league system probably has an arm like this, only buried under layers and layers of inexperience and poor control.

Infielder Billy Harrell may stick this year, but Outfielder Carroll Hardy looks as though he'd be better off with one more year of minor league ball.

Landis established himself as a players» advocate with his repeated denunciations of the ever - growing farm systems, arguing that by stockpiling prospects in the minors, the owners were depriving worthy players of big league jobs.

At baseball's annual winter meetings, you see, the National Association, which is the governing body of the minor leagues, honors someone as the King of Baseball at its big banquet.

Looks like this may not be a great year for the minor league affiliates as teams.

He was the 1968 Rookie of the Year following his selection as 1967 Minor League Player of the Year.

According to the Central Basketball Association, a minor professional league, as recently as March of 2014 Stuckey appeared in a game with the Memphis Soul Kings.

As a coach for the Rochester Americans, the Buffalo Sabres» top minor league affiliate, between 1980 and» 83, Keenan had studied under that master noncommunicator, Scotty Bowman, and it was generally assumed that he was cut from the same starchy cloth.

After nearly a decade in the musical minor leagues — he once went on the road as Sheena Easton's keyboard player — Hornsby was finally signed by RCA in 1985.

Alas, while he was drafted as a third baseman out of a New York high school, he never played an inning of infield in the minor leagues.

In fact, Mazzone says he had informally accepted the job as Yankee's pitching coach that October, when he got a call from Sam Perlozzo, who had also climbed through the minors, broke briefly into the big leagues, and had just been named manager of the Baltimore Orioles.

Before the 2002 season, Baseball America ranked him as the No. 9 prospect, but Henson pressed in the minor leagues because he wanted to justify his decision to leave school.

It wouldn't be the last time he'd play baseball in North America, as the Cubs signed him to a minor - league deal where he was a player - coach back in 2014, and then he went on to play in the Dominican Winter League where he batted.313 /.409 /.510 at the age league deal where he was a player - coach back in 2014, and then he went on to play in the Dominican Winter League where he batted.313 /.409 /.510 at the age League where he batted.313 /.409 /.510 at the age of 42.

It was enough to catch the attention of the Braves, who offered Mazzone a job as a pitching coach in their minor league system.

Nonetheless, as Dodgers minor league director Charlie Blaney says, «It's getting more and more difficult to find prospects with an average major league fastball — 85 to 89 on the gun.»

Two minor league clubs will henceforth masquerade as major league outfits in Washington and Los Angeles.

So long as the NCAA insists it is an amateur sports association and not a paraprofessional minor league, it will have to figure out its own regulations and enforcement.