Sentences with phrase «league baseball players do»

For instance, major league baseball players don't see their first pitch in a game.

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A recent report from MVPIndex ranked the top 10 Major League Baseball players on social media, who are doing their part to engage the masses.

Of the 1,700 - plus players to wear a catcher's mask in a major league game, of the thousands to do it professionally, of the tens of thousands to do it in high school and college, no catcher could hit baseballs better than he could.

Manny Machado is essentially the perfect baseball player, so he doesn't count, but the rest of the lineup has warts, even as they're on pace to be one of the greatest collections of sluggers in league history.

Most teams will be forced to expose a lot of high - priced players in the expansion draft — as baseball teams did in the major league expansion draft last year — and the Bottles and the Cakes, with decent coaching, should win some games early.

NBA players have five times as many road games as their NFL counterparts and far more free time on trips than do major league baseball players.

The PRC obviously wants to pick a fight with the Major League Baseball Players Association, and it doesn't want anyone with a sense of fairness in the way of reopening the Basic Agreement and / or locking out the players next Players Association, and it doesn't want anyone with a sense of fairness in the way of reopening the Basic Agreement and / or locking out the players next players next spring.

«The Major League Baseball Players Association and its members do not condone the mistreatment of others by playing or non-playing personnel.

It's official: Tim Tebow is a professional baseball player, and he didn't even have to sign with an independent league team to get there.

The league probably realized that many elements of the steroid era were good for ratings and if you don't want players juicing, why not juice the baseball?

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Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell took a knee during the national anthem before Saturday's game against the Texas Rangers at O.co Coliseum, believed to be the first Major League Baseball player to do so this season.

We don't know if the owners of Major League Baseball are colluding to lower the price of free agents by waiting players out until they're desperate enough to sign for less than they want or are worth.

After having two games postponed due to the weather, Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo voiced his opinion that Major League Baseball should shorten its season so players don't have to play in cold weather.

He's already starting in Champions League games for Dortmund, but similar to players who signed with the Chicago Cubs in order to «do something special» before the 2016 Major League Baseball season, Pulisic should be interested, nay, he should be beside himself with excitement at the chance to join Leeds United, make it his own, and help our historic club return to glory.

What they do, almost better than anyone else in Indiewood, are character studies steeped in regionalism and neo-neorealism: the mix of Brooklyn hipsters and inner city youth in Half Nelson, the corn - belt small town playing host to a Dominican minor - league baseball player in Sugar.

Major League Baseball did not officially exclude black players from the game in the 1940s, but there was an unwritten rule among owners.

Writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are the masters of the anti-hero, having done so before in Half Nelson (which earned Ryan Gosling an Oscar nomination), about a crack - addicted history teacher and Sugar, about a minor league baseball player.

The film has great intentions, and great performances, and tells a story that reminds us how recently our nation still promoted segregation, yet it ultimately doesn't quite do full justice to the bravery and struggle of Jackie Robinson, the first African - American baseball player to join the Major League.

So did other attempts at unionization, until Marvin Miller — the most important baseball figure not in the Hall of Fame — became head of the Major League Baseball Players Assobaseball figure not in the Hall of Fame — became head of the Major League Baseball Players AssoBaseball Players Association.

This cartoonish vibe, when combined with very solid gameplay, makes you still feel the competitive nature of the sport even though you don't get access to the real players or teams of Major League Baseball.

Major League Baseball was competitive before Jackie Robinson, they just didn't allow some of the best players on the field in the first place.