Sentences with phrase «hitter because»

My only issue with the story is that it could have been titled, «The Mets Traded For A Hitter Because, Good Lord, They Absolutely Had To, Are You Shitting Me?»

The Braves» outfielders shifted to the opposite field on every Yankees hitter because of that pitching style.

Maybe Bobby Knight isn't a great basketball coach because he doesn't favor a zone defense, or maybe Babe Ruth wasn't a great hitter because he didn't bunt more often.

He played with great arrogance, believing he could just pitch it past all the hitters because he threw it so fast.

Not exact matches

There is a lot of competition with heavy hitters in the equities market and I've seen large institutions drag down a highly liquid stock with just one trade, causing others to dump because of the hit to their portfolios.

Level of panic: 3, but that's because I'm wondering what it will be like for a team like the Nationals or Cubs to have time to prepare for a young, overly aggressive hitter like Bellinger.

It's offensive if he's an awful hitter for a first baseman because that's a waste of a position that should go to a slugger.

If you want to get into the specialization of relievers, and how every modern hitter has it tougher than their predecessors because they have to face 99 - mph specialists and platoon - happy managers, this would also be the place to lodge that complaint.

Because he does not hit the ball as far as the likes of Palmer and Nicklaus, Marr must play his approaches and putts with infinite finesse to keep abreast of the big hitters.

Mikolas has looked terrible so far, not because he can't get his pitches to work (well, partially), but because the pitches that worked in Japan, a largely contact league, don't work against patient MLB hitters that aren't looking to foul the ball away like they do in Japan.

There's this weird myth that's survived about Greg Maddux being a master of control who thrived because hitters couldn't make solid contact against him.

Or sometimes you'll get behind a hitter like that and then try to come back, because that may be the best way to pitch to him, to throw what you're not expected to throw from behind.

You can't have just one pattern on a hitter, because then he'll really know.

That's why you see a lot of great hitters take a strike on two strikes and no balls, or two strikes and one ball, or three and two, because they've been fooled.

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.

Cross told Sky Sports that he feels Wenger has made a number of big mistakes since the end of last summer and it seems that his frustration is all the more because it seemed as though we would finally see the Gunners step up and challenge the big hitters like Man City, Chelsea and Man United.

If you didn't like Sandoval's chances to succeed, you would have to offer up reasons other than «not muscly,» because hitters need to have muscles until they don't.

This is the Rockies hitters getting dinged for the help they get from Coors Field, and this is the Rockies pitchers getting dinged because nobody remembers the hurt they get from Coors Field.

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.

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.

Why, in all the kingdoms of those that are baseball does Ned Yost, or as my phone calls him, Bed Post, think that Cheslor «You Only Exist to Me Because We Signed Moose» Cuthbert is a clean up hitter??? Why, Gawd, Why, did this man fall out of a tree and hit his head or something?

Also, I would understand if we were talking about Moylan getting shelled by LHB, but I'm not progressive enough to excuse walks just because the hitter was a lefty.

If the Orioles don't keep Gibbons on the big league roster and have to give him back to the Blue Jays, someone should be shot... Cal Ripken can still produce because he's such a smart hitter.

Because it has become harder to throw the ball past hitters and because mistakes on the inside half of the plate often become home runs, not just singles and doubles, pitchers nibble maddeningly off the lower and outside boundaries of the strikBecause it has become harder to throw the ball past hitters and because mistakes on the inside half of the plate often become home runs, not just singles and doubles, pitchers nibble maddeningly off the lower and outside boundaries of the strikbecause mistakes on the inside half of the plate often become home runs, not just singles and doubles, pitchers nibble maddeningly off the lower and outside boundaries of the strike zone.

I think at this point Didi is much more valuable because he's a left - handed hitter in a righty - heavy lineup and, with Bird up in the air health-wise, it's more important to have some lefty power in between Judge, Stanton and Sanchez.

The reason it was a big deal was because Sandoval was supposed to be the only good hitter on the 2010 Giants.

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.

He didn't have a really long career because he wasn't a great contacts hitter.

Just taking his strikeout rate at Triple - A and copy / pasting it into the majors would make him one of the greatest strikeout hitters in franchise history, too, so it's not as if it's taken him this long to become a starter because he's been blocked by better players.

Because I can think of some rule change to help hitters out, and it would literally inject additional offense into the game.

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.

And they want to hear the story because they can't fathom how a pitcher could lose a no - hitter by four runs.

I would rather play outside hitter, because that's what I'm best at.

Because even if they miss it by two feet, college hitters being able to time a fastball means the fastball is junk.

Lady BABIP is more useful when it's compared to the individual's career BABIP than a general standard, because some players are just better hitters by virtue of their skill; BABIP is not just simply random luck.

Belt should be treated like one of the best hitters on the team because Belt is one of the best hitters on the team.

The reason I wouldn't want Belt to do that isn't because it's necessarily a stupid idea but because he's a sufficiently good hitter anyway that his normal approach is just fine.

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.»

And when we rest our two big hitters, I think Danny knows his place, no3 in pecking order at least until Perez returns or Nkeitiah / Mavididi / Nelson matures, because after two seasons time I can't see Danny getting any game - time.

It's how Aaron Judge went from a bottom - tier prospect on the top - 100 list, mostly because he came with preinstalled power that was hard to find, to a complete hitter.

So, again, we have Diaz doing what he wants to do, combined with a hitter screwing up because he wasn't ready for it.

This isn't an article to convince people who wouldn't vote for Martinez because he wasn't a great hitter for long enough.

They spent the offseason trying to deal Chris Johnson, and no one bit because he's not a very good hitter.

The season record is all the more impressive because it was accomplished the first year the American League went to the designated hitter.

Posey is such a great pure hitter, and Sandoval is so tough because even when you don't throw him strikes, he still can barrel it up.

Yates, a Washington native and fan, was ecstatic when the team drafted Taylor in 2004 because he was a good football player beyond being a vicious hitter.

Hitters get less time to see a Chris Young pitch because it's released closer to the plate, and he's carved hitters up since arriving to the Hitters get less time to see a Chris Young pitch because it's released closer to the plate, and he's carved hitters up since arriving to the hitters up since arriving to the majors.

Last year, the Sox were outscored 97 - 80 in the first inning, largely because their leadoff hitters had a low combined on - base average -LRB-.306).

They have a bunch of hitters who've spent their entire lives succeeding at baseball because of hitting one way, and it's possible that these specific players are spectacularly ill - suited to adjust.

If suspense existed in the three early Pirate victories, it was there merely because of an awareness of what the Yankee hitters might do, not because of what they did.