Sentences with phrase «good at bats»

«Jason would give the team four good at bats every game,» Chavez says.

He's been putting good at bats together and then you bench him in a favor of the worst hitter on the team?

Catcher is not too exciting, but Lucroy has come through with some good at bats and important hits and maybe Maxwell will learn to pull the ball run into a few HRs.

When you're hitting, the worst thing you can do is over-focus on your desired result (getting a hit), rather than on the process (having a good at bat).

That said, I have noticed a better approach at the plate with him this year since those first two games, and better at bats all together, which leads me to believe he could possibly finish the year with a K % rate of under 30 %

Not exact matches

In The Circle, Eggers doesn't so much take his best swing at technology as ignore its pitches entirely and chase after it with his bat.

I feel that two - piece safety razors do a better job in general at aligning the blade right off the bat.

Now, as Nagel argues, this is not the sort of question that you can answer by looking at a few examples (bats for Nagel, Christians for us) and pointing and saying, «Well, being a bat (or a Christian) is like this.»

When your playing a silly game with a bat and ball you bring him out, you thank him when you move a pig skin across a line, you stamp his name on my currency, you tell my children about him in our public schools, you trot him out like a prized pig at a fair anytime something good or bad or even mediocre happens, and even when you stub your toe.

Blackmon — great hitter with now more RBI potential — perfect slot for him at # 3 Arenado — he is the no brainer # 4 hitter on this team CarGo — # 5 suits his hitting style perfectly Iannetta — good plate discipline and works the count — plus has power — nice # 6 option Parra — fits nice at # 7 or # 8 Desmond — puts a speed / pop bat towards the end of the line up — either # 7 or # 8

He needs at - bats, and the Astros need to remember that the upside of a Tony Kemp or Derek Fisher in the absolute best - case scenario are akin to a standard Carlos Gomez season.

It's possible that the Cardinals think they have One Weird Trick To Fix Your Batting Approach, or it's possible they pegged him as a utility infielder at best, and they're freaking out right now.

Ralph Green III is enormous and as good as anybody at batting down passes at the line, while end Robert McCray III did manage 5.5 TFLs for himself.

So, you might as well put away your plans to calculate whether A-Rod has enough at - bats left in him over the next two years to surpass Barry Bonds on the all - time homer list, because if he's feeling good and he's close enough, he just might try to squeeze 2018 in there before he goes.

The Astros haven't signed a single free agent this offseason, and Freese makes a good amount of sense, even if he's picking up only 300 at - bats or so.

The young Dodger could be the best value on the 2017 Home Run Derby odds board at +900, smashing 25 home runs and 58 RBI so far this season in just 257 at bats.

The faith that Will Middlebrooks is as good as 267 rookie at - bats suggest, and not as fatally contact - challenged as the other 2,700 professional at - bats suggest?

«The numbers may not look great, but we can get reports he is hitting the ball hard or that his at - bats and takes are good,» Anthopoulos said.

The difference is, I believe Adams» bat is a bit better than Bourgos at this point.

He hit quite well too, with four homers in 62 at - bats and will receive a World Series ring for his contributions during the season.

Bats would do well if there is an option to buy at the end of the loan period and he wanted to stay.

It worked this time, as Keuchel got Judge to swing at a 3 - 2 slider that dropped well under his bat.

Second base could be handled by rookie Glenn Beckert, a good double - play man who was a shortstop at Salt Lake City and batted.277, or Ron Campbell, another Salt Lake graduate who spent 26 games with the Cubs last year and hit.272.

Alderson had peddled reserve outfielder Felix (the Other) Jose, who had been filling in for the injured Henderson, and two more minor leaguers to St. Louis for centerfielder McGee, whose.335 average with the Cardinals may well be good enough to win the National League batting race — at just about the time McGee swings into the American League Championship Series.

- Unless he really wants the headline «WWE Title Changes Hands on Foreign Soul», wouldn't Brock cashing in his rematch be just as much a Draw as Roman getting another «at bat» (unless Brock is promised X % wins / Creative Control as part of his contracts as well, in which case yet another reason not to like Brock's pampering)

Except we have a challenger this year in Giancarlo Stanton, who has 27 home runs in just 186 at - bats, good for a 1186 OPS.

Chelsea finished 10th in the league before Chelsea took over — and the only «new» players he got were: Victor Moses (who nobody thought was actually a good player), Marcos Alonso (thought to be an average player who had flopped at Sunderland), David Luiz (PSG flop, was being kicked out because Marquinhos took his spot), and Kante (very good signing)(and Bats I guess).

Those at - bats are better used to develop other players.

Right of the bat we get started with the Seadderall PharmaSeahawks possessing the number 1 overall pick which if you no anything about sports at all you are well aware that they won the Superbowl last year, and have the exact opposite of the number 1 pick.

He signed a bat to me and wrote, «Mark, I wish you the best — I'll never understand why mom and dad separated us at birth.»?»

To get his bat into the lineup, manager Fredi Gonzalez has used Gattis at first base and in leftfield as well as McCann's backup behind the plate.

With Xander Bogaerts, David Ortiz, Jackie Bradley Jr. and Dustin Pedroia all hitting over.300 this season, the Red Sox have the best batting average in baseball at.293.

Yes, it's unrealistic to think a Round 3 or 4 pick could instantly step in and perform better than Tartt right off the bat, but as we saw with 4 guys the 49ers drafted in Rounds 3 - 7 in 2017 (Witherspoon, Kittle, Taylor, & Colbert) it's not at all unrealistic to think the new guy could be as good as or better than Tartt by the middle of the season.

Kipnis fared better than his teammate, as he laced a single up the middle after swinging through a couple of Chapman fastballs earlier in the at - bat.

He was pretty good in limited at - bats with the Nationals last year, though.

IS DODGERS ROOKIE MATT KEMP THE NEXT JEFF FRANCOEUR?Kemp, who hit seven home runs in his first 45 major league at bats, is doinghis best impression of the Braves» Francoeur (seven homers in his first 63 atbats as a rookie last year).

With the Tigers, he batted.305 /.388 /.630 for a 163 OPS +, and his overall season line is at.304 /.379 /.694 with 44 homers and a 168 OPS + — that slugging percentage is the highest in the majors, and his overall OPS + bests that of Aaron Judge and Jose Altuve and Stanton, too.

All those years toiling on the mound, peering down the long alley toward the plate at those constant disturbers of his sense of well - being settling into their stances and flicking their bats — and then to look down one day and find Henry Aaron there, the large, peaceful, dark face with the big eyes and the high forehead, and to know that one mistake, one small lapse of concentration, would place the pitcher's name forever in the record books as having thrown the «immortal gopher.»

A game of inches in which 90 feet separate the bases, ten hits can be the difference between hitting.280 and.300 over 550 at bats, and the very best players in the world still fail 65 % of the time... yes.

He is a better defender at this corner, but it's his bat that puts the two - time MVP on this team.

He was one of the best in baseball at missing bats.

What a complete waste of money Emerson seems even though he's better than alonso if you can't play against palace gd luck playing at all and giroud over morata that's how you kill your main strikers confidence like he did with bats

It's unclear exactly where the 30 - year - old fits into Los Angeles» plans for 2015, as they already have Juan Uribe at third, Howie Kendrick at second, and an outfield already overflowing with players, but if his bat is as good as his numbers in Serie Nacional imply, they'll find room.

For what it's worth, bettors can find Joey Bats at +2800 at Bovada which highlights the importance of shopping the best line.

I am surprised they can't find someone on the scrap pile who can play a good SS / 2B and handle the bat at least a little bit.

He'd be good at a certain level, but not for clubs with the biggest names, I don't think he'd get enough respect from them unless he done wonders straight off the bat.

Cargo just needs to be straight platooned already, he's looking fine (better than fine) against righties but way too many at bats against lefties.

Chris Taylor is doing his best to get that pitch total up, working a full count and pushing Verlander to seven pitches in this one at - bat.

So even if Freese signs a one - year deal, somehow gets 500 at - bats and hits the market with a head of steam... well, best of luck.

Rivera, as good as his bat is, is a bit of a butcher at the positions he can play.