Sentences with phrase «league pitcher with»

It's worth noting that Long is the ERA leader among Southern League pitchers with the requisite innings pitched.

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John Hope, a former Major League Baseball pitcher with the Pittsburgh Pirates and graduate of Stranahan High School, died on Wednesday.

He was not a pitcher you would have drafted for your fantasy team if you played in a 45 - team league with 60 - man rosters.

He also wouldn't have been the first player with a great eye and patience in the minors who couldn't stop letting major league pitchers exploit the weaknesses that kept him from ever being more in the minors, though, so, you know.

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.

The way he could change a pitcher's entire career with 1 pitch deep dives and his dedication to the minor leagues with player interviews (I'm still a part of the «Gomber Pyle» fan club) got me so focused on baseball minutia you could have swore he miscounted my Ritalin.

With nothing but a real good fast ball, one that breaks and jumps and moves all over the place, a pitcher can be a big winner in high school and college, on the sandlots, even in the minor leagues.

Rookie righthander Paul Wilson, the No. 1 overall pick in the 1994 draft, who led all minor league pitchers last season with 194 strikeouts in 186 2/3 innings, might be the best of all the team's prospects.

Plus, Florida is asking for a lot: It was close to a deal with the Rockies, but Colorado didn't want to give up a top pitching prospect plus a major league pitcher...

The only bright spots were Pitcher Mike Caldwell, who won his 13th, and Gorman Thomas, whose four homers brought his season total to 23, tying him with teammate Larry Hisle and California's Don Baylor for second in the American League behind Boston's Jim Rice.

Perhaps there are some pitchers around the league who would not mind being identified with Aaron's eclipsing of Ruth's record.

Only one pitcher (Mike Leake) on the team pitched more than 10 innings with an adjusted ERA worse than the league average.

With the number of talented pitchers with electric stuff seemingly increasing by the year, we like the league leader to record at least 265 strikeouts this seaWith the number of talented pitchers with electric stuff seemingly increasing by the year, we like the league leader to record at least 265 strikeouts this seawith electric stuff seemingly increasing by the year, we like the league leader to record at least 265 strikeouts this season.

A year later Brees met with former major league pitcher Tom House, now 63, a pitching coach at USC with a Ph.D. in performance psychology.

Presley, 28, had become a nonperson, or rather non-third baseman, with the Mariners, and was elated by the trade to Atlanta (the Braves sent pitcher Gary Eave and minor league third baseman Ken Pennington to Seattle in return).

# 39 Don Newcombe MADISON In 1956 former Negro leagues pitcher won the first Cy Young Award with 27 - 7 record and 3.06 ERA for Dodgers.

i would almost say with the dearth of pitching around he league and what we have stockpiled we simply gamble that our pitchers will pay off and load up on offense in fa.

As always, Angell is mainly concerned with major league players, but there are some rewarding side trips, notably to the playing fields of Yale in the company of Smokey Joe Wood, the 91 - year - old former Yale coach who won 34 games as a Red Sox pitcher in 1912, and to the big league locker rooms (or the corridors just outside them) with several bright female reporters who were trying to breach that journalistic barrier in 1979.

BASEBALL — The interleague trading period came to a close with the National League Champion San Francisco Giants sending two pitchers, Stu Miller and Mike McCormick, and Catcher John Orsino to Baltimore for Pitchers Jack Fisher and Billy Hoeft, plus Catcher Jipitchers, Stu Miller and Mike McCormick, and Catcher John Orsino to Baltimore for Pitchers Jack Fisher and Billy Hoeft, plus Catcher JiPitchers Jack Fisher and Billy Hoeft, plus Catcher Jim Coker.

The American League long ago picked up the reputation of being more of a breaking - ball league than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastLeague long ago picked up the reputation of being more of a breaking - ball league than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastleague than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastballs.

He dominated the hitter - friendly Pacific Coast League, posting a 1.10 ERA with nearly 10 strikeouts per nine — the average PCL pitcher has a 4.36 ERA, and 19 is younger than many of the players the Dodgers will draft in two weeks, never mind a typical Triple - A hurler.

His impressive minor league numbers, his ability to make contact with the bat and his skill at handling pitchers combined to make rookie Jason Kendall a good preseason bet to start behind the plate for Pittsburgh in 1996.

The right - hander, who turns 30 in February, won't get to hit as often with the designated hitter in the American League, but Gallardo is the active leader among pitchers with 12 career home runs.

And that's why virtually every obituary last week began with some variation of Herb Score, the former major league pitcher whose promise went unfulfilled after a line drive hit him in the face...

THERE IS nothing saccharine about Sugar, a film that traces the journey of fictional Dominican pitcher Miguel (Sugar) Santos as he tries to yank his family out of poverty with his killer curveball and major league aspirations.

But it took the Yankees coming over the top with a young, cost - controlled pitcher who had already proven his worth in the major leagues to get a trade done.

Damn the Gators been putting pitchers into the league recently with Puk, Dunning, Shore, Faedo, and now these two plus our closer Byrne is nasty

There's always one or two jerks who are WAY too into it and monopolize the waiver wire with tricks to get more starting pitchers and innings and strikeouts, and there's always one or two people who forget they're in a league, and they'll have Jason Bay in their lineup on the last day of the season.

Going to be tough to win this series, what with the Pirates starting minor - league pitchers in two of the games.

With the signings of free - agent pitchers Greg Swindell and Doug Drabek, the Astros are the most - improved team in the major leagues.

He was hitting.156 /.208 /.289 with 24 strikeouts in 49 plate appearances to start this season, which isn't much better than the average pitcher in the National League so far.

They ranked 12th in the league in scoring at week's end and were challenged by injuries to starting pitchers Kazuhisa Ishii (out for the season with a skull fracture he suffered when struck by a line drive from the Houston Astros» Brian Hunter on Sept. 8), Andy Ashby (who used Krazy Glue on Sunday to help toughen the skin over a persistent finger blister) and Kevin Brown (still struggling after June 11 surgery to repair a herniated disk).

With home - field advantage and a pitcher's edge at Petco Park, the National League has a good opportunity to turn the tides on Tuesday.

With a deep minor league system and a number of top - tier prospects, don't be surprised to see a trade deadline deal for Cole Hamels, Cliff Lee or another top flight pitcher.

These guys get on you early and then suffocate you with pitching and D. Ross Neuman has certainly allowed the fewest earned runs, of any qualified pitcher, in the League.

In December of 1968, the rules committee of major league baseball voted to shrink the strike zone and lower the pitcher's mound, beginning with the 1969 season.

It was presented at home plate by the old major league pitcher, Walter (Duster) Mails, now with the Giants» front office.

The Angels tossed 20 shutouts (which is the most in the AL since» 72), finished second in the league in ERA and became the first AL team in the DH era to have three pitchers (162 - plus innings) with an ERA under 3.00.

He crushed Double - A pitching, though, batting.300 /.369 /.575 with 18 homers in the cooler, pitcher - friendly Eastern League, where the average position player batted.259 /.331 /.399 and is 24 years old.

For pitchers, there's uh, well, oh wow look Chris Carter led the National League with 41 homers last year and he's just out there waiting to be signed.

The Mariners have gone even with a 100 - win team running out two of the best pitchers in the league against them, and they've done it with some degree of style.

Of the 33 active starting pitchers in the major leagues with 1,000 or more innings and an ERA lower than 4.00, Valdes ranks last in victories and 25th in winning percentage (61 - 54,.530).

While the lawsuit has yet to be decided, its effect on youth baseball thus far has been that many youth participants are wearing protective gear with at least one youth league making it mandatory for all pitchers to wear a protective heart guard.

In 2007 Little League Baseball dropped its decades - old pitching rules - which limited pitchers age 12 and under to six innings per week and six innings per game, with the number of innings increasing for older age groups - in favor of rules based on pitch count.

If, for example, your child has been working hard to be named the pitcher on the Little League team and the coach selects someone else to be the starting pitcher, don't swoop in with complaints and requests for the team leadership to rectify the situation.

Diaz, who resigned his state House seat to run for the Senate and is known almost universally as «Pepi,» spent much of Saturday outside an early voting site in Southwest Miami with Cuban - born retired Major League Baseball pitcher Camilo Pascual.

In this episode, former big league pitcher Dr. Dave Baldwin talks about his run - in with Ted Williams, his life in science, the physics of the gyroball versus the slider, and how he finally made it to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Social sports leagues are incredibly incestuous, and you could make an incredibly complex diagram mapping out how the pitcher from I'd Kick That has hooked up with Ballsagna's entire infield.

When major - league rookie pitcher Hopper Gibson (Johnny Simmons) can't find the plate, he's sent down to the minor leagues and begins sessions with an unorthodox sports psychologist (Paul Giamatti).

For all of his historic accomplishments, Lincecum won the Players» Choice Award as the National League Outstanding Pitcher this season, along with the National League Pitcher of the Year Award from Sporting News.