Sentences with phrase «good young pitchers»

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).

But it's a rising generation of good young pitchers that may be driving baseball into an era in which the little things matter again

And if teams are wrong — if the import business brings more Ariel Prietos than Hideo Nomos — baseball, already suffering from a lost generation of good young pitchers, will continue to look more like the All - Star Game's home - run - hitting contest on a daily basis.

In recent years no team has produced more good young pitchers than Los Angeles.

27 HERB SCORE, PITCHER: At 22, the best young pitcher in the game; won 1955 Rookie of Year award with 245 strikeouts, and with added experience could win 25 or more games this year.

«I've never seen a better young pitcher,» he said of Saberhagen.

«Sometimes you have to take chances,» says general manager Dave Dombrowski, who traded three of his best young pitchers to Seattle in» 89, betting that Langston could pitch the Expos to the division title.

Not exact matches

Hits from the left side with some power, and has a rep of working well with young pitchers.

Sporting a major league best 71 - 43 record, one of the top young outfield prospects, and one of the top pitchers in...

How much better would this team look (and the organization as a whole) if they still had a young, up - and - coming pitcher with team options through 2021?

A coach can teach a young pitcher a lot of things; he can also help an experienced one correct flaws that seem to come up every once in a while no matter how good the pitcher may be.

«You don't see young pitchers come in as starters anymore and surprise you with how good they are,» Cards closer Dennis Eckersley says.

Dazzling young pitchers seem to pop up with astonishing regularity, and there is even a recent case or two of a good young hitter.

with young pitchers the onus has to be with a good receiver first.

There was a three - year stretch when Jered Weaver was one of the best pitchers in baseball, with top - five Cy Young finishes in each of those seasons.

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.

Though his 2017 season wasn't as good as his Cy Young Award - winning year in 2015 — 22 - 6, 1.77 ERA, 236 strikeouts in 33 starts — Arrieta's numbers over the last three years compare favorably to the last three pitchers to sign $ 200 million contracts as free agents — Scherzer, David Price and Zack Greinke.

And their fans had better get used to the trials of young pitchers.

Many anticipated they would be sellers, and figured free - agent to be Cole Hamels would be their best trading chip, however the team instead signed their young left - hander to the second largest contract a pitcher has ever received (six - years, $ 144 million).

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

He is a young, talented starter — already perceived as one of the best pitchers in the world — with the fringe benefit that he actually might be a superb hitter, as well.

Each year the writers determine who the best pitcher in each league is by awarding them the Cy Young award.

So many pitchers have performed so well after Tommy John surgery, some young pitchers have considered having it done electively.

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.

Hopper Gibson (a very good Johnny Simmons, «The Stanford Prison Experiment») is a young, hotshot pitcher who has lost his groove.