Sentences with phrase «contending team»

Earlier this week, BookMaker.eu was offering prop bets on contending teams to qualify for the playoffs.

The Seattle Seahawks have a title contending team thanks in part to prospects taken on the final day of the draft.

Contending teams need the Prados and the Zobrists.

Teams that were lousy last season, but acting like contending teams in the offseason.

To be in this quadrant, a team will need to have some pieces in place for their next contending team.

If concerned about maintaining his high visibility and momentum from being a 5 star he was drafted 35th overall to a Super Bowl contending team.

They were going to be active in the market because that's what normal contending teams did.

The upside is that the Padres will have Hosmer play baseball for them until that hypothetical contending team gets here, and he's pretty good at baseball.

It's not inconceivable that if the Rockets lure Webber, they will maneuver to match the $ 4.5 million offers that Olajuwon, assuming he is healthy again, is likely to receive from contending teams this summer.

I think most contending teams are willing to give up at least a first for a 30 goal scorer.

But I want a super bowl contending team.

All three of the other contending teams in the East aren't going to follow that strategy, which means the Orioles would be at even more of a disadvantage.

Great farm systems don't always turn into contending teams.

If we want to become a SB contending team, we can't be complacent.

A perennially contending team has a surprise GM opening, and they want you to take it.

The AL Central is where the offseason went to die, and there are two contending teams there that are making decisions that are somewhere between curious and oblivious.

Though it's early in the year, there are vital fixtures to the title race every single week between contending teams.

-- There are some great MLB matchups between playoff - contending teams including OAK / ATL, MIL / LAD, and PIT / WAS so be sure to check out the latest line moves and betting percentages around the market.

I think we can transition from an outside contender team with a core of Bob - Bread - Cam - Jones, to a true contending team of Jones - Werenski - PLD - plus, at the cost of the 24th pick, plus one of our almost - there guys.

We are playing a top 5 contending team away.

It's not just contending teams that have valuable players, and that idea is disrespectful to a majority of baseball fans every year.

I'm not sure when someone decided that only contending teams could have valuable players, and I'm not sure how the virus spread.

Kimi Raikkonen ended the season 112 points behind Sebastian Vettel, which was a pretty fair reflection of how far off the pace of his world championship contending team mate he was.

MLB — It's unfortunately becoming too frequent that on contending teams are losing players due to injuries.

while a Title contending team like Arsenal who are a few players short of glory dilly - dallys!

Get some bridge pitchers to help with the bridge to the next contending teams.

One of them is the current placeholder and possible successor to an all - time great on a Super Bowl contending team,...

Contending teams don't normally have a good young piece that they are willing to trade and their draft picks stink (especially if they add Rudy.)

Contending teams got better.

It's in Italy, though, where the title is expected to be the closest with the most contending teams this season.

They're just as likely to walk the bases loaded as strike out the side, and that doesn't seem like something that's sustainable on a contending team.

A contending team needed to have a much worse option in their rotation to absorb that kind of contract / risk / reward combo.

It's not a stretch to think that if he were on another contending team, he might be hitting at the top of the order, if not the middle, just based on his raw potential.

It's August, and every contending team is a team that everyone probably expected to contend.

This article must be a joke, darn he did it again (Wenger) another year of sorrow, hope the last one, but came to the conclusion after watching the Euros that is not the players, Ramsey a phenomenon, Giroud not that awful as a striker, is da man, Le Prof the problem, bringing the Asian superstar just proves that his plight is to increase the owners profit with no regards in building a contending team filling up the gaps....

Betts had one of the better defensive seasons in recent memory, according to advanced stats, and he should get a boost from the voters who prefer to think of the award as the Most Valuable Player on a Contending Team.

Aesthetically, when I inspect a contending team, I want to understand why they're contending.

He may have scored fewer points than Saric, but his points came in meaningful minutes for a contending team.

The contending teams with almost no committed dollars are the ones likeliest to overlook all of those red flags up there.

I say spark plug that any contending team would love to have (off the bench of course) as long as they use him correctly.

When the game was over he packed his bag and headed off for two weeks of military duty, one of a score of players on the contending teams to have done so.

The contending teams are all snatching up players who will look good on a parade float, and they're encouraging fans to dream along with them.

More importantly, he's an ace who makes sense for every contending team for very obvious reasons, so maybe it's time for the White Sox to figure out how to be a contending team.

I agree that he'd be an asset off the bench for a contending team.

You're still missing the best 2 players on a contending team.

It's likely that none of these guys will be contributing to a contending team by the time Kawhi has to sign his supermax deal, so the Spurs org will need to blow up the roster and re-shuffle quite a bit (think growing pains, waiting to contend again, etc.).

I don't think a team of EP, Fournier, Oladipo, Harris, AG, Vooch would make us a contending team.

That goes for all of these teams, sure, but the Brewers might start the season with two hitters who wouldn't look out of place on a contending team, maybe three.