Sentences with phrase «designated hitters»

«It looks like the Hunger Games competition has begun as REDCs are looking to bring in «designated hitters,»» he said.

After all, American League pitchers don't take batting practice and National League team's don't shell out top dollar for designated hitters.

Fact is, the White Sox prepared for the»93 season thinking Jackson wouldn't be able to play, and they wound up with a surplus of outfielders as well as one of the best designated hitters in the game, George Bell.

Batters, especially designated hitters, watch pitchers on the clubhouse television during games.

Eric Pineault is the designated hitter on the topic of financialization but I thought I might make a small contribution to get the discussion rolling.

Heresies like the designated hitter have been introduced to lure more paying customers into the parks.

Schwarber has spent time as the Cubs» catcher, as well as in left field and as the designated hitter during interleague games.

«It's been like that all year; it's been a huge key,» said pitcher / designated hitter / outfielder James Biles.

So, a combination of right field and designated hitter seems to make the most sense.

In one of those five, he'll be pitching and presumably not hitting — he could bat on his days on the mound, but that would leave the Angels without a designated hitter after his exits.

Parker is baseball's best designated hitter, and was the only formidable lefthanded batter in the Oakland lineup.

The A's have current or former All - Stars at catcher, first base, second base, third base, leftfield, centerfield, right - field, designated hitter, starting pitcher (three of them) and reliever.

Alderson, meanwhile, traded two minor leaguers — players to be named later — to the Texas Rangers for designated hitter Baines, an All - Star in four of his last six seasons.

Lawton is a shrewd pickup because he gets on base -LRB-.366 on - base percentage) and allows manager Joe Torre to put Bernie Williams at designated hitter, Hideki Matsui in centerfield and Tony Womack on the bench.

Affectionately known as Hound or Mutt to his teammates, Kelly is Philadelphia's designated hitter who usually steps onto the ice only when Shero feels the pace of a game has become too humdrum.

It's impossible to predict every little breakthrough (a hundred years ago, we'd never have envisioned painless dentistry, the designated hitter or Thighmaster), but we're expert enough (in sports, not so much medicine) to forecast that Vince McMahon's WWF will become the umbrella organization that regulates all major league sports (except for boxing, which will continue to be guided by good sense alone), and outcomes will be scripted to provide total fan satisfaction (read: fireworks, near - naked women on every sideline, no 8 - 8 playoff teams ever and especially no Yankees championships).

Over the final weekend of the regular season Sano appeared in three games, going 1 - of - 8 with three strikeouts, but was limited to designated hitter duty.

In 2016 in the American League, he started 59 games as the designated hitter in addition to his 95 starts in right field, four starts at first base and one start in left field.

Because the Pirates wanted to develop his hitting as well as his pitching in the minors, they shuttled him from the mound to designated hitter.

«It's definitely made me stronger,» says designated hitter John Roskos, whose 23 dingers through Sunday are more than twice his total for all last season with Portland.

Carlos Beltran gets to be the designated hitter and mash, which is where he belongs at 39 despite a successful past as a center fielder.

Kyle Schwarber, possibly the world's greatest DH - who - isn't - a-DH, is returning to the Cubs just in time for the World Series to be their designated hitter.

He is a first baseman and designated hitter, though, so the 103 OPS + he's put up over the last four seasons really isn't cutting it, especially not at an average of $ 23 million per year.

Chicago's offense will get a boost in Cleveland as Kyle Schwarber will be able to return to the starting lineup as the designated hitter.

He's a designated hitter, the role he was born to play.

Michael Brantley is once again in the lineup as the designated hitter, as Edwin Encarnacion's ankle sprain is keeping him out of Game 3 and likely the rest of this series, even if it gets to five.

I don't have to watch my team use the designated hitter or stop playing all of the teams I'm used to.

They were right around the average, and had solid or better production from first and third base, right field, designated hitter, and, of course, center, where Mike Trout roams.

Jan 04,2016... In the absence of an Emily post or an Amy Vanderbilt, A's designated hitter Dave Parker used his eye...

As they point out, since he's the designated hitter, there was a chance that he wasn't wearing a cup.

That would have to go to Orioles» reliever Jason Garcia, who came to the plate in an American League game because Baltimore had moved designated hitter Steve Clevenger to first base, giving up the DH in the process.

Still, though, if he's managed a bit better, given a few more days off, or used exclusively as as a designated hitter so he can rest his legs more effectively throughout the season, then he might have one more year of greatness left in him.

He's a designated hitter.

The Rangers reportedly offered more guaranteed money than Boston, but Napoli turned that down, likely because that team already has a new starting catcher in A.J. Pierzynski, a new designated hitter in Lance Berkman, and Mitch Moreland at first base once more.

Well, it seems that Ohtani, who has made quite a splash in his first couple weeks as an Angels» pitcher and designated hitter, has taken a page from the golf superstars» playbook, or at least some associated with the MLB rookie have.

Overall, things went very well for Martinez at the plate last year, his first as Seattle's full - time designated hitter.

Rodriguez took some grounders at third, which prompted reminders from too many of them that he was a designated hitter and the hot corner is Chase Headley's.

While the Angels don't fit into either of those categories at the moment, they still have an enviable problem in that they could have an ace on their hands who could also potentially hit around.270 /.340 /.460 as a designated hitter.

What makes Otani unique is that he is not only one of the best pitchers in Japan, but also one of its best hitters, playing the outfield or designated hitter on days he didn't pitch.

Since the inception of the designated hitter rule in 1973, it has been common for veteran National League players to switch leagues late in their careers.

Light - hitting Orioles shortstop Mike Bordick, upon seeing a pitcher instead of a designated hitter on the lineup card for the first time, cracked, «At least Jimmy Key's not hitting in front of me.»

A methodical throwing program has impacted his spring training, limiting him to designated hitter duties through the first several weeks of camp.

This is likely because many of the high - profile, big - market teams reside in the AL, and the public perceives the lineups are more potent from top to bottom because of the designated hitter.»

Baseball purists argue that there's an unfair advantage based on ballpark since American League pitchers don't take batting practice and National League team's rarely have the bench depth to install an above average designated hitter.

A National League team will typically use a position player as designated hitter, but that's not usually a premier bat.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, there's actually more value taking the under in games featuring the designated hitter.

The right - hander, who turns 30 in February, won't get to hit as often with the designated hitter in the American League, but Gallardo is the active leader among pitchers with 12 career home runs.

With spring training 1998 only six months away, major league clubs still don't know if they'll have a designated hitter, what league they'll be in or what teams they will be battling for a division title next season.

As long as they're swinging for the fences, owners ought to keep pushing to eliminate the designated hitter; they've offered to compromise and add a 26th roster spot and are awaiting the players» union approval.

Okay, This Is What I Really Believe: Today's game will make it easier to convince Khris Davis to accept his true calling, designated hitter.