Sentences with phrase «best pitcher»

And he's considered a pretty good pitcher by today's standards.

He's been a very good pitcher that we would miss.

Reminds me of how the Astros told Verlander last year to drop his release point to where it was earlier in his career (he didn't know it was different), and he has been the 4th - best pitcher in baseball (by wOBA) since that day (Sept 5, 2017).

# 6 Satchel Paige MOBILE Reported age and Negro leagues win totals are debatable; no doubt that he was one of best pitchers ever.

He's a really good pitcher for 5, maybe 6 innings.

On Monday Roger Craig was as good a pitcher as Early Wynn and when he needed relief there was Larry Sherry.

That said, I know of no reason to believe that teams with better pitchers win more games.

And yet, James Shields, the third - best pitcher available as a free agent this offseason, remains on the market.

You would have first - ballot player - types like the Ultra-Speedy Power Hitter, and there would be Veteran's Committee inductees like Pretty Good Pitcher Who Lasts a Million Years.

This bp is missing 1 other really good pitcher... a group of Osuna, Tepera, Barnes and someone as good as Tepera would be nice...

Jose Quintana has quietly been one of baseball's better pitchers since 2012, when the then -23-year-old debuted for the White Sox and threw 136 well above - average innings.

The last few years we could blame it on a lack of talent, but now we have some bona fide hitters on this team and we still manage to look clueless against good pitchers.

A coach can teach a young pitcher a lot of things; he can also help an experienced one correct flaws that seem to come up every once in a while no matter how good the pitcher may be.

«And I like to see good pitchers, amazing pitchers like that fellow Blue.»

While good pitchers are in high demand even in youth sports, pitching too early and too often can have a lasting impact on the body.

We have so many better pitchers that he should never be coming in when the game is on the line.

I think he wore down at the end of last year... Jose Mercedes became a very good pitcher last year.

Adam Wainwright is a fine ace, one of baseball's best pitchers when healthy.

More likely, though, the Reds will need to figure out how to acquire or develop better pitchers.

«Formerly Bad Pitcher is now Currently Good Pitcher: What's different about him?»

It's not just the relative obscurity of the all - time best pitcher, either.

Better pitchers often rely on you chasing out of the zone or setting you up to get you out by swinging at a bad pitch.

because signing better pitchers than the ones you have is stupid.

They are adding the Bay Area's best pitcher over the last four years in Amador Valley's Johanna Gruaer (read more on her on Page 28), and the East Bay's best hitter over the last four years in Alhambra shortstop Kylee Perez.

He wants to create a reality show style competition in India hoping to attract cricket players and in turn find the next best pitcher in Major League Baseball.

Shields has been one of the 10 best pitchers in baseball by ERA + since 2011.

They've had good pitchers for extended stretches, and great pitchers in short bursts.

What happened to Friend is anyone's guess; during the season he was as good a pitcher as Law, sometimes better, yet the Yankees drove him out three times.

Now he's a Pretty Good Pitcher.

A really good pitcher to slot somewhere around Jon Lester, Jose Quintana, Jake Arrieta, and Kyle Hendricks or John Lackey.

«Pitching can be anywhere from 60 % to 90 % of baseball, depending upon how good the pitchers are.

Chris Gimenez isn't a very good pitcher.

Even though he's regarded by many as the best pitcher in the majors, that price tag would appear staggeringly high considering starting pitchers are only expected to start anywhere between 30 and 34 games.

The best pitchers average at least two runs allowed per game.

Hundreds and hundreds of days in which you were absolutely sure Lee was one of the best pitchers to ever play baseball.

Is it a cop out to suggest that the most important and crucial piece to a team's postseason puzzle is their best pitcher because he has shoulder problems?

When the Cubs were standing 60 feet, six inches away from the best pitcher alive, there wasn't a single one of them thinking, «Oh, no.

Price is almost certainly one of the best pitchers alive.

With the best pitcher on the free agent market possibly being James Shields or Scott Kazmir, there wasn't going to be an opportunity to use that TV fortune as a blunt object.

If you give me a list of the five best pitchers of the steroid era, excluding Clemens, I'll guess that two of them had hair growing out of their toenails, and that's being conservative.

The latter was by far the best pitcher in the spring.

They went into a crowded offseason bazaar, elbowed everyone out of the way, and came back with the best pitcher available.

But no one expected them to get this far without two of their best pitchers.

Cito Gaston can't get last year's rotationback, but he can improve this year's by sending his best pitchers to the moundmore often.

And Kershaw is the best pitcher in baseball.

Hey, if the track and field records can keep getting more amazing, I don't know why Kershaw can't be the best pitcher who ever lived, here in 2016.

He's the best pitcher in baseball, and it's why he's the proud owner of a 0.91 ERA, which is the lowest in the NL, obviously.

He's just about the best pitcher unavailable right now, and the Nationals have him.

«He's our best pitcher.