Sentences with phrase «as the pitchers who»

I'm pretty comfortable believing the pitchers who appeared in the Pacific League from 1992 to 2000 are, at the very least, as talented as the pitchers who appeared in the National League from 1963 to 1971.

«At least he will become more famous as the pitcher who lost a no - hitter rather than just another pitcher who threw a no - hitter.»

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.

Not exact matches

According to TiqIQ, the average ticket price for Jeter's last regular - season home game has already reached more than 2 1/2 times the peak average price for the final home game of all - star pitcher Mariano Rivera, who debuted with the Yankees in 1995, the same year as Jeter, and retired last year after 19 seasons with the team.

Of all the coaches he encountered in researching the book, the most fascinating to Feldman was Tom House, who first came to fame not as a quarterback guru but as an adviser to baseball pitchers.

Just an Italian guy who is captivated by Jesus and shares the same name as the MLB pitcher.

With an unproven baseball washout at QB (Weeden, who turns 28 in October, spent five years in the minors as a pitcher) and no clear No. 1 receiver last summer, Oklahoma State was tabbed for a fifth - place finish in the Big 12 South, allowing them to catch early opponents off guard.

And I promise you, as someone who is deeply cynical about this stuff, it is extraordinarily satisfying to watch Bryant hit against a BP pitcher who is throwing surprise curveballs and calling his locations.

New York's perennial losers pulled a name out of a hat and came up with Tom Seaver, a $ 50,000 bonus pitcher who steals bases as well

«I was more scared of an ice bath than I was the first time I went into the chamber,» said Lafferty, who had plenty of icing experience as a pitcher and quarterback at Vacaville High and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Not bad for a guy who was a 58th - round draft pick out of UCLA six years ago as a pitcher.

Players who pitch really badly their first year back might not get a second year, so wouldn't the data get more skewed towards good results as you get farther from the surgery and pitchers who aren't good enough to stick in the MLB drop out of the dataset?

And if down the stretch we're in it but need more pitching, we've got one of the minors best pitchers (Luzardo) as a possible reinforcement (I know, I know, he's almost certainly not coming up this year, but I can dream — as a side note, I really think teams like the A's should be more aggressive with promoting pitchers who have shown they can pitch and have stuff that seems like it can get out major leaguers — why wait when they'll probably just blow out their elbow anyway — might as well get some quality innings out of them in the majors — yeah, I'm salty about Puk, but whatever, I've held this belief for a long time).

The honor goes to Brave pitcher Charlie Leibrandt, who, after striking out the 1,000 th batter of his career on Aug. 29, rolled the ball to the Atlanta dugout so that he could keep the ball as a souvenir.

Pitchers such as Brown, 24 - game winner John Smoltz of the Braves, 265 2/3 - inning workhorse Pat Hentgen of the Toronto Blue Jays and Randy Johnson of the Seattle Mariners, who has gone 55 - 16 since 1993 and appears recovered from back surgery performed last September, are anachronisms.

Another one of the best sights in baseball is a pitcher who can throw a slider as fast as some other pitchers throw a fastball.

Pitchers who make the majors a year after being drafted are the Rhodes Scholars of the industry: They're about as likely to be the President of the United States as an unemployed gadfly, statistically.

«I think you've got to be patient as both a batter and a pitcher,» says the 25 - year - old Brett, who was traded to Pittsburgh during the off - season for Second Baseman Dave Cash.

Erratic slugger Phil Plantier, who was signed away from Houston for $ 500,000, and former Padres first baseman Eddie Williams qualify as Detroit's only significant off - season free - agent additions — a rather admirable show of frugality for a franchise that in the last five years spent wildly on middling, past - their - prime free agents such as pitchers Tim Belcher and Mike Moore.

If the Tigers truly rate Madrigal or anyone else as a comparable talent, then go for it, but don't lose out on the top talent because you are tired of drafting pitchers, or because you fall in love with the «potential» of some high school kid who may never learn to hit in pro ball.

The opposing pitcher, who has been briefed, throws the ball high and tight, and Max falls over backward, then rows himself back into the box, using the bat as an oar.

A loquacious raconteur endowed with total recall, he is able to talk for what seems almost ever about such long - forgotten players as Moses Solomon, «The Rabbi of Swat,» a slugger the Giants brought up in the»20s to lure Jewish fans into the Polo Grounds, and one - armed Daily, a Cleveland pitcher back in the»80s who used to get into fights on the field and chop away at his adversaries with the stump of his left arm.

There are exceptions, such as Winfield, who was announced as a pitcher, only to make the majors two weeks later as an outfielder.

As they say to pitchers who hit: Help yourself.

As boys Pedro, Ramon and Jesus, the youngest brother, who is a pitcher in the Red Sox organization, would throw rocks across the ravine toward an abandoned house tucked behind trees and bushes.

Philly has had problems with pitchers who, shall we say, appear to favor cheese steaks, such as Tommy Greene, Ben Rivera, Bobby Munoz, David West and Fernando Valenzuela.

Well, it seems that Ohtani, who has made quite a splash in his first couple weeks as an Angels» pitcher and designated hitter, has taken a page from the golf superstars» playbook, or at least some associated with the MLB rookie have.

Without having distinguished himself as a high school pitcher, he dropped out at 16 and contacted Don Nomura, a former player in Japan who was part owner of an independent Class A team in Salinas, Calif. «I just wanted to play the highest level of baseball in the world,» Suzuki said last week through an interpreter.

Grauer's former high school coach (who happened to be a former All - American and national champion at UCLA) unabashedly referred to the young pitcher as «the next Jenny Finch.»

For some reason, though, I'm hoping that Chen is more than that, a pitcher who serves as sort of a baseline for interesting and competent.

But there will be pitchers who do what he does, perhaps for not as long, and you'll completely forget about them in 10 years.

AS FREE AGENTS: Catcher - Infielder DAVE ROBERTS, 29, who hit.238 with the Rangers last season, to a five - year, $ 1.1 million contract with the Astros; Pitcher JOHN D'ACQUISTO, 29, whose 1980 record with the Padres and Expos was 2 - 5, to a four - year deal with the Angels worth $ 1.15 million; and First Baseman LEE MAY, 37, formerly of the Orioles, to a one - year contract with the Royals.

As always, Angell is mainly concerned with major league players, but there are some rewarding side trips, notably to the playing fields of Yale in the company of Smokey Joe Wood, the 91 - year - old former Yale coach who won 34 games as a Red Sox pitcher in 1912, and to the big league locker rooms (or the corridors just outside them) with several bright female reporters who were trying to breach that journalistic barrier in 197As always, Angell is mainly concerned with major league players, but there are some rewarding side trips, notably to the playing fields of Yale in the company of Smokey Joe Wood, the 91 - year - old former Yale coach who won 34 games as a Red Sox pitcher in 1912, and to the big league locker rooms (or the corridors just outside them) with several bright female reporters who were trying to breach that journalistic barrier in 197as a Red Sox pitcher in 1912, and to the big league locker rooms (or the corridors just outside them) with several bright female reporters who were trying to breach that journalistic barrier in 1979.

BIG LEAGUE SECRETS: CAUSE AND EFFECT Sirs: As an avid baseball fan, to whom the pitcher has always been the most interesting player on the team (I married one who gave it up to study medicine), I want you to know how much Sal Maglie's fine article (SI, March 17) will increase my enjoyment of the game.

The right - hander, who turns 30 in February, won't get to hit as often with the designated hitter in the American League, but Gallardo is the active leader among pitchers with 12 career home runs.

Score couldn't be described as an elegant pitcher, a smooth thrower who brings the heat while looking like he's playing catch in the backyard.

But as with Pittinger, who went 27 - 16 in 1902, a good pitcher can break bad records.

Here, then, are two pitchers who were excellent year after year, who were recognized as such, who pitched better and lasted longer than almost all of their peers, and who did it all when ballparks were lively and hitters were unfathomably large.

Lamb, who will continue his baseball and academic endeavors at USC, was Elk Grove's ace as the lone starting pitcher back from the previous year's roster.

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.

His 200 or more strikeouts in nine consecutive seasons is a major league record, as is his 2.48 career earned run average among pitchers who have worked at least 2,000 innings.

In the series A History of the LOOGY, published in 2005, Hardball Times writer Steve Treder defined a «hard - core LOOGY» as a lefthanded relief pitcher who appears in at least 20 games in a season and averages less than one inning and fewer than 0.2 saves per game.

Yoenis Cespedes is a fine replacement for Torii Hunter, David Price is one of the only pitchers who could replace Max Scherzer at the top of a rotation, and Anthony Gose's talent would probably play Austin Jackson's talent in a film adaptation, so it's not as if they're that much different from last year's.

With ace pitchers like David Price and Chris Sale, and guys like Betts, who are equally as effective in the field and the batter's box, it seemed like maybe the team could hold its own.

As we enter the second half of the season, many bettors may be wondering who had been the best and worst pitchers to bet thus far.

Lee is a powerful left - hander, who is considered by many, as the best pitcher in the game.

II top seed a year ago before being upset in the quarterfinals, the Irish return three of their top four hitters, as well as a quartet of pitchers who combined for 19 wins in 2017.

The trouble with him as a schoolboy pitcher was that we couldn't find anyone who could catch him.

But Stephen Strasburg did more in his first week as a major league pitcher than live up to the hype: He became the rare player who fills stadiums.

«cents Amador Valley sophomore pitcher Johanna Grauer, who in a losing effort still solidified her standing as the most exciting / talented pitcher the East Bay has seen since Valerie Arioto graduated from Foothill in 2007.