Sentences with phrase «big leaguers»

Next time you're in serious doo - doo, do what big leaguers do: Deny, alibi and justify!

As one person on the players» side put it: «We aren't giving them something that affects 30 percent of big leaguers and probably 50 percent of minor leaguers in exchange for something that affects less than 20 players every year, especially guys who are staring $ 17 million in the face.»

Take a look at the big league rosters and you will find all - star caliber players such as Dustin Pedroia (Woodland), Jimmy Rollins (Alameda), and CC Sabathia (Vallejo) and of course many players who are not stars but solid, well established big leaguers.

You can't just not sign good big leaguers because you think someone in the minors might be good someday, that's really not conducive to winning baseball games... ever.

You need to do what big leaguers do.

«No one has 15 prospects at that level, so clubs that acquire minor league free agents and fringe big leaguers are better off than those who don't.

He's been an All Star every year since he became a full - time big leaguer and has finished either first or second in AL MVP voting every year he's been eligible for the award.

However, being a competent big leaguer with AS experience and World Series championship ring must be frustrating.

Minor leaguers (who don't have a union) can get heavy suspensions for weed, but there's nothing in MLB's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program that says big leaguers can get suspended for it.

I think the average big leaguer now is four years and change, or something like that?

I was using the possibility of signing him as an example of a) the Braves intentions of being competitive this season and b) the logic (or lack of, in my opinion) of not signing good MLB players because you have a guy in Double - A who might be a good big leaguer someday.

I just hope that when they trade, they go for lower level guys with potential, instead of AAA guys who have a ceiling of replacement big leaguers.

He's got big leaguer written all over him.

and yet the notion of filling a gaping need with a good, productive big leaguer on a short - term, low risk, team friendly deal at the expense of a 4th round pick (thanks rockybull) is immediately met with opposition because... the Braves have a guy in Double - A that might end up panning out in, once again, a few years from now?

He had starred at three schools in the Dallas area — he bounced around so he could play for specific coaches — and played on a junior national team with future big leaguers Justin Upton, Austin Jackson, Billy Butler and Homer Bailey.

He attended Woodward High School, which would later produce big leaguers Leon Durham, Darryl Boston and Skeeter Barnes.

I'm impressed by Gabe Kapler; he has a very strong arm, plays hard and runs everything out, which you don't always see from big leaguers.»

I can't argue that's the hope with him, solid big leaguer.

Darren Baker may have been born with a baseball in his hand and grew up in Major League Baseball clubhouses, but becoming a Division I signee and potential big leaguer was by no means a birthright.

For the normal big leaguer, even for the very good one these days, this would be superb.

Ryan Gosling is effective at playing a slickster who paints the picture for the rest of us, while big leaguer Brad Pitt is kept more on the sidelines but nonetheless solid as a banker turned world - weary hippie.

To sell the deception, Mendez teams up with (fictional) one - time Hollywood big leaguer Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) and real - life Oscar - winning make - up effects artist John Chambers (John Goodman), who worked on Planet of the Apes and the original Star Trek series.

«How many kids get to say they can do that — unless they become big leaguers?

WHILE Venezuela has emerged as a productive pipeline of Latin American talent, it can't exactly boast the hordes of established big leaguers that the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico can.

I'm not into victory laps but Cozens is maybe a fringe big leaguer.

«My conditional repertoire had depleted to the point where if I was going to stay a big leaguer, I had to come up with a weapon that I could get guys out with,» Dickey said, «and the knuckeball was my ticket.»

However, the Cal State Fullerton - commit already has shown a level of maturity that would be the envy of any big leaguer.

The workshop included a trip to a Rockies — Red Sox game at Fenway Park and a three - part assignment: tape a stand - up introduction, interview a player in the seats and jostle for position during batting practice to grab a big leaguer for questions.

I know they're big leaguers and shouldn't need other influences to motivate — but anger and humiliation are good motivators.

Big leaguers, meanwhile, did whatever they could, wherever they could, to get in shape

«How does it feel to be a big leaguer?»

Around the same time Ramon blossomed into an established big leaguer and principal wage earner in the family.

College baseball players still celebrate home runs more boisterously than the big leaguers do, and they still have to make the same MLB draft decisions they always did.

He found that 77 big leaguers had taken their lives — most of them after leaving the game — and concluded that baseball needs a counseling program to help players adjust to retirement.

Since 2010, their have been only 3 years the team has had a big leaguer undergo surgery, 2014, 2016 and now 2018.

Before his arrival in Oaklandhe never had more than 25 straight at bats as a big leaguer.

1978 Fantasy Island Aided by Tom Lasorda, guest star Gary Burghoff (for once not the shortest guy) pitches to big leaguers, including Steve Garvey.

But over a short series we could have taken the big leaguers.

«I showed him the little things that make you a big leaguer.»

Flynn, an infielder on the Big Red Machine Cincinnati teams of»75 and»76 is, in fact, only 35, nine years younger than Tony, who's still out there playing with today's big leaguers.

Sanders, who says he is committed to staying with the Reds until they are eliminated from playoff contention, has never had more than 375 at bats in a season, but he has batted.282 since» 92, when he first hit his stride as a big leaguer.

Some young Phils are big leaguers, others might be some day; this will be a long year for all

So how is it that a player who didn't command much money as a big leaguer — Koosman made $ 600,000 in 1985 — should now be so valuable on a baseball card?

«I've had a lot of days in my life where I thought I wouldn't be even close to being a big leaguer.»

Call me a traditionalist, but the self - publishing hype just doesn't carry the same weight as having a «big leaguer» find you.