Sentences with phrase «baseball out of a player»

You don't get to slap the baseball out of a player's hands.

Not exact matches

A superb manager knows how to get the most out of every player on the team — in baseball and in business.

If the players make enough concessions and if baseball figures out a way to satisfy the financial side of their commitments, it will still take forever.

But I will point out that this is the perfect example of just how weird baseball players have it.

Considering that the conveyor belt hasn't stopped spitting out new baseball players in hundreds of years, sure!

But the idea is that you start with a legitimately devastating front three (Greinke, Miller, Patrick Corbin) and add two of the most complete players in baseball (Goldschmidt, Pollock) and let the other 20 players figure it out.

For generations, turning amateur baseball players — usually out of shacks and hardscrabble fields — into major league prospects has been the province of mostly uneducated Dominicans with limited job opportunities.

For decades Yankocentric Eastern seaboard media — like this magazine — have overhyped Yankees players to exhaustion, so much so that six of baseball's 30 All - Century team members were Yankees, including righthander Roger Clemens, who currently is New York's fourth starter and can't get a Bic lighter out.

It would be nice to be able to get value out of switching on whichever game has the best or most interesting players at any given time, though on the other hand baseball probably saps enough of my productivity when I'm watching / following at most one game per day.

The PRC obviously wants to pick a fight with the Major League Baseball Players Association, and it doesn't want anyone with a sense of fairness in the way of reopening the Basic Agreement and / or locking out the players next Players Association, and it doesn't want anyone with a sense of fairness in the way of reopening the Basic Agreement and / or locking out the players next players next spring.

«Now,» ventured a Boston Globe writer the other day, a bit hyperbolically, «if the Red Sox can keep the highest - paid player in baseball out of prison, he might be on his way to surpassing feats of 1986 and last season.»

Piazza and Stewart discussed his new book, Long Shot, steroid use in baseball and the Hall of Fame shutting out steroid - era players.

That's not to be condescending to the team or country at all: it's just that baseball in the country is still in the early stages of development, and the roster was filled out by American minor - league and role players.

While baseball players ask out of games when they get blisters, and football players sit on the bench when they suffer turf toe, NHL players continue to play through pain.

But trainers have balked at the idea of an international draft and might exercise what leverage they do have by holding their players out of the event, per Ben Badler of Baseball America:

Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark is asking collusion - related questions of MLB's leadership without saying the word «collusion» out loud.

Being a professional baseball player, I have on many occasions talked to Alex. In 1970 I was a member of the Boston Red Sox, and on that final day of the season when he beat out Carl Yastrzemski for the batting title, the manner in which he did it tore me up.

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.

And the more and more I look at the Twins, the more I think about Santana and Santiago being quality pitchers with one of the best pitching prospects in baseball behind them, with Sano breaking out and Kepler continuing to progress, with Buxton still having the world's greatest building blocks for continued baseball success, with players like Dozier, who can be a star, and players Grossman and Escobar, who have each contributed something over the last couple seasons.

The MLBPA would surely fight this, given Hamilton has not had five separate occurrences with drugs of abuse during his time as a major - league player, and from a more humanitarian standpoint, it's hard to see Baseball trying to force Hamilton out when they could attempt to rehabilitate him with a structured program during another, shorter suspension instead.

When the Twins chose me in the seventh round in 1991 out of Gary, Ind., I was an athlete, but I wasn't really a baseball player.

On Sept. 4, to the cheers of fellow inmates wishing him well, Dennis Dale McLain, 43, walked out of the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Ala., where he had just finished serving almost as many months in prison (29 1/2) as games he had won pitching (31) for the Detroit Tigers in 1968 — the year he was the dominant player in baseball, the American League's Most Valuable Player and winner of its Cy Young player in baseball, the American League's Most Valuable Player and winner of its Cy Young Player and winner of its Cy Young Award.

The good news is that plenty of other excellent baseball players had to figure it out, too.

Out there in the wings still is the huge army of young soccer players, more than eight million strong, according to an A.C. Nielsen survey, that far outnumbers the participants in any other team sport in the U.S.. You'll hear, of course, that these kids will grow up to be lawyers and then buy season tickets to baseball and football games.

We're not saying extra innings shouldn't exist — exhibition or no, it's still baseball — but the Midsummer Classic could use some tweaks to make sure we're never again in a situation where Robinson Cano has to save the audience and the game's managers from running out of players in extras.

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.

With the worst record in baseball and 32 games out of first place, there is no way that they will trade for a player.

We don't know if the owners of Major League Baseball are colluding to lower the price of free agents by waiting players out until they're desperate enough to sign for less than they want or are worth.

Three hours out of 24 is a huge chunk out of an adult's life, and there's absolutely a difference between spending it with a losing team filled with a bunch of losers and spending it with a losing team that just happens to have one of the greatest baseball players to walk the planet.

As Chicago baseball players and fans alike gear up for a new season of America's favorite past time, Shedd Aquarium is also out - of - the - park excited for Opening Day.

Turns out, it wasn't the guy who I thought it was, he was on the phone whenever I made the face at him, and I found out he's a player for the local minor league baseball team and probably thought I was fan - girling at the sight of him.»

Several Major League Baseball players including Derek Jeter, Ryan Howard, and Ryan Zimmerman, spend the off - season working out with trainer Jason Riley to improve agility, range of motion, and functional strength.

The baseball was from when my son had the privilege of escorting a college baseball player out onto the field for the National Anthem so it holds a special memory for him and he likes to keep it on display in his room.

In golf, an eagle is not the emblem of the United Alyssa Milano is single, and says she's done living out the fantasy of being a baseball player's girlfriend.

Baseball: Baseball, game played with a bat, a ball, and gloves between two teams of nine players each on a field with four bases laid out in a diamond.

The Empire star verified the relationship status during an episode Alyssa Milano is single, and says she's done living out the fantasy of being a baseball player's girlfriend.

While he has accrued several noteworthy screen assignments (including the starring role of a nasty hockey player in 1992's The Cutting Edge), D.B. Sweeney is best remembered for his even - keel portrayal of the tragic Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988); if he looked like a «natural» on the ballfield, it was because Sweeney had once actually played minor league baseball with the Kenosha Twins, hanging up his spikes after a knee injury.

Based on a true story and taken from the Michael Lewis novel of the same name, Moneyball follows former baseball player turned Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Pitt) as he attempts to figure out how to beat teams with four times his operating budget.

Starring Paul Rudd, Jeff Daniels, Paul Giamatti and Mark Strong — among other actors in an A-list ensemble — The Catcher Was a Spy tells the remarkable, little - known true story of Moe Berg (Rudd), a professional baseball player who became a spy in service of the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, during World War II, sent out to stop German scientist Werner Heisenberg (Strong) from building an atomic bomb for the Nazis.

Even baseball fans will be sorely disappointed in how the game is depicted, with almost no adherence to any known rules (the Benchwarmers only field three players), while the games themselves have no real rooting interest, concocted merely to show more pratfalls, players getting injured, and bats flying out of the park into vehicles or people.

Linklater's sure - to - be-winning dramedy follows a group of college baseballs players figuring out the wild machinations of college.

If a tennis player was to ace 17 out of 20 of his serves, or a baseball player scored home runs 85 % of the time, they'd be considered exceptional!

One newspaper called it «that rare baseball book that also serves as a cultural history,» even as it's capturing the happy atmosphere of today's super fans travelling to out - of - the - way stadiums to catch their favorite players in relaxed moments.

I think writers, wannabe - writers, agents, and publishing industry pros spend so much time focusing on inside baseball, and associating with others who focus on it, that they forget that most of the «regular folk» out there (i.e., the book buying public) don't have a clue who the players are behind the scenes.

No power, no personality, yet with no peer, the Mariners» Ichiro Suzuki may be the greatest player to come out of Japan and the worst thing to happen to Japanese baseball

What is good is that we are seeing Super Mega Baseball 2 making the most of the Games With Gold scheme and that should ensure a whole ton of players are up and at it, ready to whack out a home run or two.

The show starts with typical images of the American dream, surfers out on the West Coast, trains that took the pioneers west and baseball players, but there is the angst behind too.

American writer Paul Auster (b. 1947) tells the story of how striking out on an autograph from a legendary baseball player led him to become a writer.

Stella once told his friend Michael Fried, the critic and art historian, that his own idea of genius was the baseball player Ted Williams, because he could see the ball perfectly and then hit it right out of the park.

It turns out that easily measured things like the ability to run fast are not the useful statistics to use when assessing whether to recruit a player and how much to pay, but: «As bad as they may have been, the statistics used to evaluate baseball players were probably far more accurate than anything used to measure the value of people who didn't play baseball for a living.»