Sentences with phrase «league pitchers last»

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.

Not exact matches

Strikeouts byBlue Jays starting pitchers last season, 61 more than any other rotation in theAmerican League.

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 Wednesday, Giants» pitcher Matt Cain tossed arguably the greatest game in the long and storied history of Major League Baseball.

Endearing and undefended confusion were part of the character of Pascual Perez, the former big league pitcher murdered last week during an apparent home invasion in his native Dominican Republic.

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).

• Over his last two full seasons, Sutcliffe walked 200 batters, more than any other pitcher in the American League.

The five toughest pitchers to hit last season in each league (according to opponents» batting average) were all power guys: Al Leiter, Smoltz, Hideo Nomo, Brown and Curt Schilling in the National League and Juan Guzman, Roger Clemens, Hentgen, Kevin Appier and Alex Fernandez in the American Lleague (according to opponents» batting average) were all power guys: Al Leiter, Smoltz, Hideo Nomo, Brown and Curt Schilling in the National League and Juan Guzman, Roger Clemens, Hentgen, Kevin Appier and Alex Fernandez in the American LLeague and Juan Guzman, Roger Clemens, Hentgen, Kevin Appier and Alex Fernandez in the American LeagueLeague.

Brett has a 12 - 7 record, a 2.86 earned - run average and was the winning pitcher in the National League's 7 - 2 victory in last week's All - Star Game.

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.

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

Just last week he was the starting pitcher for the American League in the 2016 MLB All - Star Game.

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...

The transaction that enabled Seaver to make the quantum jump from the Mets to the Reds was only one of many that shifted 40 players in the hours before last Wednesday's trading deadline, but as befits Seaver's stature as the premier pitcher in the National League, his trade was by far the most important and controversial.

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.

Still, lefthanded batters hit lefthanded pitchers worse (to a cumulative league average of.242 last season) than righties hit righties -LRB-.254).

Under Harder, last year's staff set a league mark by striking out 1,018 batters, but these same strong - armed pitchers were sixth in ERA (3.79).

He had 21 wild pitches last year, the most by any National League pitcher since Tony Cloninger threw 27 away in 1966.

That is totally unrealistic, but there are reasons to believe: Last year, the Mariners had both the youngest hitters (27.1 years old) and the youngest pitchers (26.7) in the league.

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.

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).

One of the greatest fears shared by major - league pitchers — and hitters — was realized at a spring training game in Surprise, Ariz., last Wednesday night: Aroldis Chapman, the fireballing Cincinnati Reds closer, was hit flush in the face by a line drive off the bat of Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez.