Sentences with phrase «in pitcher years»

But that was 2013, which is about 50 years ago in pitcher years.

Not exact matches

According to TiqIQ, the average ticket price for Jeter's last regular - season home game has already reached more than 2 1/2 times the peak average price for the final home game of all - star pitcher Mariano Rivera, who debuted with the Yankees in 1995, the same year as Jeter, and retired last year after 19 seasons with the team.

Seven of the top 10 highest salaries go to pitchers this year, with hurlers Zack Greinke of the Arizona Diamondbacks and David Price of the Boston Red Sox coming in second and third place at $ 31.9 million and $ 30 million, respectively.

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- Our best starting pitcher, BMAC, is out for the year while he recovers form the most serious injury anyone has seen in a while.

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.

With an unproven baseball washout at QB (Weeden, who turns 28 in October, spent five years in the minors as a pitcher) and no clear No. 1 receiver last summer, Oklahoma State was tabbed for a fifth - place finish in the Big 12 South, allowing them to catch early opponents off guard.

Ozzie, Jose's fraternal twin, was drafted as a hard - throwing righthanded pitcher by the Yankees in 1983, tore his rotator cuff three years later and lost 10 mph off his 90 - mph - plus fastball.

Reminds me of how the Astros told Verlander last year to drop his release point to where it was earlier in his career (he didn't know it was different), and he has been the 4th - best pitcher in baseball (by wOBA) since that day (Sept 5, 2017).

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.

- There are now four rookies in the rotation - Last month, one of our «better» starting pitchers, colon, was suspended for the rest of the year for cheating.

The Yankees could still change their minds or claim they never said anything about avoiding pitchers for seven years and $ 28 million per, or the Nationals could deal one of their impending free agents to make space and then decide to go all - in on Scherzer.

Well, I'm thinking of some pitchers in recent years who've commanded a fat salary for two or three years after they were washed up just because of their names.

The Yankees are maintaining that they aren't going to sign a big - money pitcher this winter — specifically, team president Randy Levine said there is «virtually» no chance of the Yanks bringing in a six - year, $ 25 million per year type pitcher.

The celebration of Chris Carpenter, Big - Game Pitcher is based on the rigthanded workhorse that was: a pitcher who has posted a career 51.5 percent groundball rate, led the league with 237 1/3 innings pitched in 2011, out - dueled none other than Roy Halladay in Game 5 of the NLDS, and scored a pitching «win» in Game 7 of last year's World Pitcher is based on the rigthanded workhorse that was: a pitcher who has posted a career 51.5 percent groundball rate, led the league with 237 1/3 innings pitched in 2011, out - dueled none other than Roy Halladay in Game 5 of the NLDS, and scored a pitching «win» in Game 7 of last year's World pitcher who has posted a career 51.5 percent groundball rate, led the league with 237 1/3 innings pitched in 2011, out - dueled none other than Roy Halladay in Game 5 of the NLDS, and scored a pitching «win» in Game 7 of last year's World Series.

Last offseason was a banner year for free agent closers, with Aroldis Chapman (5 years, $ 86 million), Kenley Jansen (5 years, $ 80 million) and Mark Melancon (4 years, $ 62 million) signing the three richest contracts for relief pitchers in history.

Although the Dodgers were the largest favorite in nearly two years, a more interesting piece of information emerged — Kershaw was actually the most profitable pitcher to bet against in the National League.

«She came back in her junior year and really blossomed as a pitcher.»

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?

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.

They haven't employed a pitcher named Orval Overall in over 100 years.

They could then be used or traded, as is most advantageous, as the Tigers» minor league pitchers move to the majors in the next 4 years.

Players who pitch really badly their first year back might not get a second year, so wouldn't the data get more skewed towards good results as you get farther from the surgery and pitchers who aren't good enough to stick in the MLB drop out of the dataset?

And if down the stretch we're in it but need more pitching, we've got one of the minors best pitchers (Luzardo) as a possible reinforcement (I know, I know, he's almost certainly not coming up this year, but I can dream — as a side note, I really think teams like the A's should be more aggressive with promoting pitchers who have shown they can pitch and have stuff that seems like it can get out major leaguers — why wait when they'll probably just blow out their elbow anyway — might as well get some quality innings out of them in the majors — yeah, I'm salty about Puk, but whatever, I've held this belief for a long time).

If Gausman and Bundy can be reliable pitchers, if Cashner doesn't regress, if Cobb can pitch a sub - 4.00 ERA with half his games in hitter - friendly Camden Yards, if Tillman can have a huge comeback year, if the bullpen continues to be strong, if Brach can be a solid closer until Britton's return, if Davis and Trumbo can find their batting stroke again, if Mancini and Schoop replicate last season, if Manny continues to be Manny at short and with his improved swing, if Adam is still Adam, if Beckham can learn to play defense at 3rd and be August - Beckham instead of September - Beckham at the plate, if the catchers can somehow do their part, and if the O's figure out their right field situation (and all of that put together is one big IF).....

But Astros pitchers were fourth in the league in ground ball percentage this year, inducing them on 47 percent of balls in play.

I think the Tigers have 3 pitchers in Lakeland who should be given a chance in Erie this year, Dowdy, Sodders, and Funkhouser.

Rookie pitchers accounted for nearly 20 % of all starts in the majors last season, the highest such percentage since the World War II era (rookies made better than 22 % of major league starts in each year from 1943 through» 45).

A year ago at this time, Mark (the Bird) Fidrych, the rookie Tiger pitcher who had enthralled Detroit fans with his 19 - victory season and his antics on the mound, would be putting on a ruffled shirt and a tuxedo to attend another banquet in his honor.

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Coaches are MEL HARDER (43), who hasn't had a sore - armed pitcher in years; signal - stealing TONY CUCCINELLO (44); rough - and - ready RED KRESS (42) and BILL LOBE (40).

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

The Yankees hadrolled out 11 starting pitchers (including five who made their major leaguedebuts) while going 21 - 29, the sixth - worst 50 - game start in the franchise's 107 - year history.

He has averaged a strikeout an inning, whiffing a career - high 14 Cardinals on June 24 (the most by a Cub pitcher in 13 years) and 12 Expos on Aug. 12.

Only 10 pitchers in the American League had ERAs of less than 4.00 last year.

Last year hitters had a smaller chance of reaching base against Smoltz (26 %) than against any other pitcher in the big leagues.

He was a relief pitcher of distinctive rhythms: deep, snoring naps in the bullpen that stretched through a game's first five innings; languid ninth - inning strolls to the mound that tested the patience of even the most unalloyed baseball purists; an endless, silky windup that uncoiled fastballs that until recent years hit 100 mph.

In last year's World Series the Yankees were amazed at how often Atlanta pitchers worked off the outer edge of the plate.

But for a pitcher, experience doesn't mean just sticking around in the big leagues for a few years and hoping you'll absorb enough knowledge merely by being there.

21 BOB LEMON, PITCHER: The big right - hander still throws smoothly and easily at 35 and is just as much a threat to win 20 games as ever — he's missed it only twice in eight years.

Roman Semproch, a right - handed pitcher, had the lowest ERA in the International League last year, 2.64.

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.

Erratic slugger Phil Plantier, who was signed away from Houston for $ 500,000, and former Padres first baseman Eddie Williams qualify as Detroit's only significant off - season free - agent additions — a rather admirable show of frugality for a franchise that in the last five years spent wildly on middling, past - their - prime free agents such as pitchers Tim Belcher and Mike Moore.

After this many years in organized baseball as a pitcher, if you still need a coach or anyone to remind you to step off the rubber in holding a runner to the base, then something just is not clicking in your mind.

Thirteen to fifteen year old pitchers in the Babe Ruth leagues all around this country do these things routinely.

The all - star has never had superlative control, but he's been one of the wildest pitchers in baseball this year, leading the NL in walks.

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.»

Rookie Pitcher Rich Gale pitched the Royals to their 13th win in 14 games with a 4 - 0 victory over Boston, the first time the Red Sox were shut out in Fenway Park since Aug. 24 of last year.

But the key for the Twins next year will be whether they re-sign closer Jeff Reardon, who on Sept. 14 became the first pitcher to get 30 saves in five consecutive seasons.

DOUBLE TROUBLE The Expos have added a 16 - year - old pitcher named Antonio Alfonseca, who has six fingers on each hand, to their organization in the Dominican Republic.