Sentences with phrase «big league roster»

A Triple A player can be drafted for $ 25,000, but he must remain on the big league roster of his new club for a season or be offered back to his original team for $ 12,500.

If the Orioles don't keep Gibbons on the big league roster and have to give him back to the Blue Jays, someone should be shot... Cal Ripken can still produce because he's such a smart hitter.

McCann returned to the lineup on May 6, but by then Gattis had been so productive (he hit six home runs in April) that Atlanta kept Gattis on the big league roster.

Someone from their big league roster for someone on your big league roster.

Long term, thereisn't room for all three on the big league roster, but any of them would bringgood value in a trade for a club on the rise.

Zeile will almost certainly be recalled when the big league rosters expand on Sept. 1.

Stratheads can simulate Negro leagues games ordrop players onto big league rosters of yesteryear to see what might havehappened if baseball hadn't waited until 1947 to integrate.

Not exact matches

Now he'll need to sustain that production over a larger nightly workload — while regularly guarding bigger players and providing constant help to one of the league's worst defensive rosters.

What you wouldn't hear from them, because this group doesn't make excuses, is that they were without half their Roster for Week 1 and many new additions that will be making big impressions on the League very soon..

Now Miami has three of the biggest young stars ready to challenge the Celtics» future Hall of Famers and the two - time champion Lakers, with their league - leading payroll; meanwhile, the deep - rostered Spurs, Mavericks, Bulls, Magic and Thunder are all in pursuit.

... the low amount of investment in rosters (relative to the big leagues) is what dilutes the quality of play in MLS.

He even could be on a big - league roster before the year is out, for Hooton has been tailed by major league scouts since high school.

The Whitby roster included two former big league pros (Sid Smith and Jean Paul Lamirande) who had been reinstated as amateurs.

Though vaguely familiar names dot the rosters of the WBA, what the league aspires to be is a showcase for the young and unknown who need just a bit of seasoning to make it in the big time.

The second item is that nearly all of the major prospects the Dodgers refused to trade over the last few years during deadline season are now on the big - league roster and contributing.

The Big 12 was the toughest league in America, the Jayhawks didn't have a projected first round NBA draft pick on the roster and front court depth was a major question mark after the departure of McDonald's All - American freshman Billy Preston.

That makes 27 different Dodgers on the DL in 2016, tying the big - league record, and we've still got some time left before expanded 40 - man rosters make the DL unnecessary.

He cites the increase in homegrowns — players signed from an MLS youth academy directly to an MLS squad's senior roster — as the biggest factor in the league's push to become the best destination for domestic players to develop.