Sentences with phrase «for spring training»

As far as this house is concerned, when pitchers and catchers report for spring training (lets go Phillies), it's springtime.

This fast - growing city is home to the Goodyear Ballpark, where Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds share the venue for spring training.

The Chicago Cubs bring in fans from across the country and continue to set attendance records for spring training games bringing in 14,000 fans on average.

The retro - chic Hotel Valley Ho in Downtown Scottsdale, Arizona welcomes back baseball fans for another spring training season with a special Home Run Package.

Also, remember to have some supportive shoes for your spring training!

Fifteen Major League Baseball teams bringplayers to Arizona for spring training every year where the athletes are exposed to a lung disease that's on the rise as the region's climatewarms and dries

And the baby baseball pajamas are just in time for spring training!

Now on December 1st, the worst thing anyone can do is assume the offseason is over and the current squad is the same group of guys who will show up to Dunedin in February for Spring Training.

It's time for spring training.

When the Raysreported to St. Petersburg for spring training this season, they were startingtheir 10th major league season and also had never had a winning record; in 2007they'd gone 66 — 96.

WHEN THE Metsreported to St. Petersburg for spring training in 1969, they were startingtheir eighth season in the major leagues and had never had a winning record; in»68 they had gone 73 — 89.

Then, toward the back of the scrapbook, there was this story from an off - season edition of the Whig - Standard: «Art Cook, one of the most popular players ever to wear the colors of the Kingston Ponies... is keenly awaiting the opening of the baseball season and has announced that he will be one of the first to report to the Ponies for spring training.

When the Dodgers were in the middle of a trade for a 2015 All - Star it was just to shuffle prospects around, and then they just wandered around the airport for a while, waiting for spring training to start.

It seems like just yesterday I was melting away down in Phoenix, slurping Italian ice as I watched the A's for spring training.

Phoenix may be known in the baseball world for spring training, but there's plenty of other outdoor activities to do there.

Not exact matches

You won't spring for the training, consulting and support you know your people need to really become proficient with these tools.

It is with a heavy heart that I must announce my absence for the majority of the upcoming Spring Training season to you, my favorite mini-employees of Citigroup.

I'm coaching the 3:15 marathon pace group, and we train together on Saturdays as we get ready for spring marathons.

«I have no doubt that some Christian leaders have felt restrained from expressing their views on this matter for fear of being labelled homophobic or bigoted,» says Rev Ian Coffey, vice principal (strategy) and director of leadership training at Moorlands College and a regular speaker at Keswick and Spring Harvest.

Many institutions for the training of lay workers sprang into existence.

The company needs to train 450 associates for the 4ORE Golf entertainment complex before it opens this spring.

Instead, Rob and I will be training for the 1 - day 100 mile Shiner GASP (Great Austin to Shiner Pedal) ride this spring.

Rob has been training for this throughout our short spring, so he didn't find this route as challenging as me... which meant he had more energy when we arrived home.

And during the offseason, the power - hitting lineup of brews named for America's (and Canada's, kinda) Pastime — there's Friendly Confines, Squeeze Play, Eephus, and more — serve as a reminder that spring training is never that far away.

The curriculum for the first AMI 0 - 3 teacher training class will occur in the Spring of 2017 in Stellenbosch.

So while several of his teammateswere dishing out food during a spring training barbecue for season - ticketholders, Snider was satisfying their appetite for his autograph.

RYAN ZIMMERMAN's right shoulder continues to be an issue, with soreness keeping him off the field for a week of spring training.

And if you're looking for the cavalry, Lance McCullers is starting extended spring training and won't be back until the end of May.

Johnny Cueto spent time with his ailing father, which cut into his spring training, which made it harder for him to get into game shape.

is when I thought he was my fantasy sleeper heading into the 2016 season after racking up 24 K's in 15 innings with a.189 OPP AVG working as a starter for the Pirates in spring training.

As for reacting to larger samples, he tore through three levels of milb last season, then the AFL, then spring training, getting better at every level against increasingly older and more advanced competition.

With spring training just around the corner, free agent shortstop Ian Desmond has finally found a new workplace for 2016, reportedly agreeing to terms with the Texas Rangers on a one - year, $ 8 - million contract, per Ken Rosenthal.

Barraclough has also carved out a back end of the pen role with the Marlins and will enter spring training competing for the Marlins» closer role.

Now, we're in an offseason where a potential superstar like Shohei Ohtani is only getting the league minimum after signing with the Angels for a capped international bonus figure; where one of the very best hitters in the game, J.D. Martinez, still can't find a reasonable offer with less than two weeks to go before spring training; where Yu Darvish can't sign with either of the teams he would like to (the richest out there, the Yankees and Dodgers), despite their having a need for a starter of his caliber, because they «need» to clear salary in order to avoid paying the luxury tax.

The Astros, through owner Jim Crane, are also going to utilize their spring training facility in Florida as a place to collect goods for those impacted by the hurricane back in Houston:

Comes day one of spring training, I'm all better for another season.

Otherwise, you'd think that he'd be one of the main people who'd skip the WBC in favor of using Spring Training to gear up for the season.

«I want Steve Garvey to go for the home run,» Manager Tom Lasorda of Los Angeles (4 - 2) said during spring training.

Selig, Reinsdorf et al. think Vincent is soft on the players» union, and they blame him for what they consider the undue generosity of the 1990 accord, which came after a mercifully short spring training delay.

He went on a mission to play 9 different positions in five different spring training games to raise money for cancer and ended up playing for all ten teams.

Angels (from left) Jim Abbott, Chuck Finley and Mark Langston hang out in 1995; flatmates (from left) Eric Karros and Mike Piazza feed their Dodgers skipper breakfast in Manhattan Beach, Calif., in» 93; Will Clark (with McGwire) goes 0 for 7 in a 14 - inning spring training game in»88 and still has a belly laugh, so contagious is Lovero's joie de vivre.

THE TWO, who are not related, met when Mike was catching a spring training game for the Royals in 1995.

Volpe plans to choose a team by the end of spring training and is rating his suitors on the sincerity of their love for him, how they treat fans in general and the strength of their team.

Gattis arrived in spring training with a reputation for hitting epic home runs and the Bunyanesque new nickname a cab driver in Venezuela had given him: El Oso Blanco, the White Bear.

Beneath its towering palms many leading trainers prepare their young trotters and pacers for the Grand Circuit, the touring series of prestige races primarily for 2 - and 3 - year - olds that gets into full swing in mid-June in places like Detroit, Lexington, Ky. and Saratoga, N.Y. Pompano is analogous to baseball's spring training camps: you get the athletes into shape in the South, then send them North for the regular season.

No one on the Indians wants to jinx Moran by coming out flatly and saying, «He's the second baseman we've been waiting for,» but his spring training performance certainly indicates that he is.

Dress for the day starts with your feet and who better to use as a guide than the stars of the MLB who are deep into spring training.

Earlier this year, Jim Harbaugh was a first base coach for the Oakland A's in spring training and apparently he left them with a piece of Michigan.

The clowns» departure was also accelerated during a train ride that spring from Los Angeles to San Diego for an exhibition game when Price let his pet snake loose in a car full of women bowlers.

At the start of spring training in 1992, righthander Greg Gohr was considered one of the front - runners for AL Rookie of the Year.