Sentences with phrase «for young pitchers»

The changeup, however, can be fickle, especially for young pitchers, because it requires «feel» that can be elusive — like putting as opposed to whaling away with the driver in golf.

This doesn't mean it'll work next year, but, dammit, how about a round of applause for the young pitchers who put their head into the jaws of Coors Field and took it right back out while everybody in the tent applauded?

The article I read said he pitched way too many innings for a young pitcher who'd had T.J. Surgery.

Anthony Rizzo's disaster of a debut -LRB-.141 /.281 /.242 in 153 plate appearances) was close to Buxton's, enough to make the Padres think, «If only there were a way to exchange this 21 - year - old prospect for a young pitcher with a sore shoulder!»

Not exact matches

If the Brewers make it through this gauntlet, though, they'll have the opportunity to speed up their rebuilding timetable and exchange young players or prospects for starting pitchers and relievers.

The Rangers wanted Joe Ross, a young, above - average starting pitcher in a market devoid of them, for Profar, who might hit just enough to be a shortstop and is just three years away from free agency.

The pitchers, who have been known to putt around right up until their starts, are staging a more serious competition for the Cy Young Award, even if they prefer not to discuss it.

Here's hoping for a successful second half for Gray because it's never fun to watch a young pitcher's talent evaporate.

The idea that teams would be interested in a young, cheap pitcher who is under contract for the next few years shouldn't surprise anyone.

As for the Minnesota Twins, a horrendous June (7 - 21), coming after a terrific May (21 - 7), is a warning to Twins fans to be patient with the team's young pitchers.

If there were someone who was a) low - cost enough, b) around for three or four years, and c) could be the middle - of - the - order slugger they desperately need with Wright's career in jeopardy, then it might make perfect sense to trade one of their brightest young pitchers, like Syndergaard or Steven Matz.

The 2009 Tigers finished in second place, and they were hoping to contend the following season, but they traded a 28 - year - old, homegrown All - Star and an established, 25 - year - old All - Star starting pitcher for a center field prospect and an enigmatic young pitcher.

The young pitchers acquired for David Price and Yoenis Cespedes have an excellent shot to extend that tradition.

Lawrie comes up, cheesed off about his night and thinking about a young pitcher having problems throwing fastballs for a strike.

# 39 Don Newcombe MADISON In 1956 former Negro leagues pitcher won the first Cy Young Award with 27 - 7 record and 3.06 ERA for Dodgers.

ROOKIE HOPES: Not much, except for two good young pitchers up from Syracuse: Jim Owens (according to Roy Hamey, possessor of «best curve in baseball») and Jack Meyer (led International League in strike - outs).

Peavy, a 180 - pound righthander, has logged strenuous seasons for a young, small - framed pitcher: 178 innings (combined majors and minors) two years ago and 194 2/3 last year.

But luckily for the Red Sox one of the unknowns, a young pitcher named Sam Jones, turned out to be good enough to win more than 200 big league games.

Scheffing obliged that winter, dealing the unhappy young pitcher in a four - player package to California for Jim Fregosi.

I don't follow other teams close enough to know pitching staffs — I'm not crazy about our pitching trades giving up young arms for older pitchers coming off injury but our new names / faces / arms pitching for the Twins need some time, some fan support, and opportunity to establish their value in our season.

Campolindo - Moraga, Class of 2014, Starting pitcher for Cal Baseball What would you tell your younger self so...

Just didn't seem like a good plan for your best but often injured pitcher or with a young inconsistent rookie pitcher.

Fleisig G, Andrews J, Cutter G, Weber A, Loftice J, McMichael C, Hassel N, Lyman S. Risk of Serious Injury for Young Baseball Pitchers: A 10 - Year Prospective Study.

Being on the spot on the pitcher's mound or foul line is too much scrutiny for a young child, says Dr. Gotlin.

In 2005, at the age of 32, then Los Angeles Angel Bartolo Colón won the American League Cy Young Award for best pitcher, one of professional baseball's top honors.

A year - over-year increase of 30 innings pitched is often used as the limit for the number of innings a young starting pitcher is allowed to pitch in any given season.

«Conventional wisdom among coaches and managers is that restricting innings for young starting pitchers, and slowly increasing the number of innings pitched over several years, gives pitchers» tissues sufficient time to adapt to the workload of a major league season,» said Thomas Karakolis, lead investigator on the study.

Among the celebrities who have taken that step: former pro hockey star Theo Fleury, Cy Young - award - winning baseball pitcher R.A. Dickey; film director Tyler Perry; actors Tom Arnold and Anthony Edwards; and Chester Bennington, lead singer for the rock band Linkin Park, who hanged himself last year.

If the younger student is a big baseball fan, in the story he or she might be a pitcher for a major team.

His father, a talented athlete who pitched a summer for the Chicago White Sox and went on to become a revered college swimming coach, was nicknamed Cy, after Cy Young, the Hall of Fame pitcher.

Born Edward Parker Twombly Jr., in Lexington, Va., in 1928, the artist got the nickname Cy from his father, who took it for himself out of admiration for the Chicago White Sox pitcher Cy Young.