Sentences with phrase «leaguer who»

Remember the major - leaguer who qualifies for the all - star team when he only succeeds a third of the time (a.333 average in Major League Baseball isn't bad).

Sometimes it's a minor league player and sometimes it's a major leaguer who was clearly named after the president.

I get that there are always a handful of AAAA guys in every organization, but I can never remember such a dominant Minor Leaguer who fell so flatly on his face.

But the only other minor leaguer who can fill a similar role to Fisher is Kemp and I'm pretty sure they're higher on Fisher.

That opened a legal niche to be quickly filled by younger, more aggressive, firms formed (as Lincoln Caplan points out in his chronicle of the rise of the Skadden firm) by Catholics, Jews, and non-Ivy Leaguers who had been snubbed by old - line firms.

In another ruling, major - leaguers who were unable to complete the 10 - year - eligibility requirement for enshrihement because of illness or death will now be considered.

In Brill's telling, the education class war pits a heroic group of entrepreneurial philanthropists, highly successful hedge fund billionaires, and idealistic Ivy Leaguers who join Teach for America against somewhat grubby and grasping rank - and - file public school teachers and their union leaders, who often put their own selfish interests above those of the children.

There are those who argue the two streams of licensing will create a two - tier system where those who get articles will be the major leaguers who get the good jobs and those who don't will be the farm team relegated to lesser positions in the profession.

ORE needs to be governed in such a way that the interests of the public (which pays the bills on a full - time basis) is served not by endless minor - league try - outs in the majors, but by major leaguers who have taken the time and put in the effort to become major league - ready BEFORE setting foot on the field.

Not exact matches

We rounded up 30 of the smartest celebrities in Hollywood who are high - school valedictorians, Ivy Leaguers, MENSA members, and certified geniuses in their own right.

Because of that, he drew the attention of people from all walks of life who were much smarter than him, from executives, ivy leaguers, programmers, doctorates, attorneys, bankers and more.

Among those roughly 75 men are lawyers, a medical doctor, a congressional staffer, professional musicians, a radio host, several PhDs and professors, a particle physicist from Stanford, a former Google employee, a dean of admissions at a medical school, Ivy Leaguers, Golden Domers, and more who were successful in the world, but sought a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ and his Church, and desired to serve his people.

It was also a value win for the Pirates, in that they received three major league players who each retain very high upside and have already established themselves as «good major leaguers» at worst, plus an interesting and toolsy prospect.

Why, even among Ivy Leaguers, who connects Princeton with Woodrow Wilson anymore since Bill Bradley took Old Nassau to the Final Four?

Minor leaguers (who don't have a union) can get heavy suspensions for weed, but there's nothing in MLB's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program that says big leaguers can get suspended for it.

Well, two weeks into the 2016 season, Team Darcy has defeated Team Lalez (who have won 4 total All Sports Crowns), and Team Cohen, which was laced with former NBA D - leaguers on Tuesday night.

$ 14,303 to former Maryland center and current G - Leaguer Diamond Stone, who signed with another agency out of college.

They are all sons of former major leaguer Jose Ortiz, who also was once MVP of the Pacific Coast League for the Sacramento River Cats in 2000.

Alderson had peddled reserve outfielder Felix (the Other) Jose, who had been filling in for the injured Henderson, and two more minor leaguers to St. Louis for centerfielder McGee, whose.335 average with the Cardinals may well be good enough to win the National League batting race — at just about the time McGee swings into the American League Championship Series.

Mostly based on an assumption that Stan wouldn't enter such an important year with only Reggie (coming off a year where he was injured and completely awful) and Ish (who is clearly not a starting PG) and a D - Leaguer of your choice on the roster.

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).

I was using the possibility of signing him as an example of a) the Braves intentions of being competitive this season and b) the logic (or lack of, in my opinion) of not signing good MLB players because you have a guy in Double - A who might be a good big leaguer someday.

Milt Pappas, who won 209 big league games and pitched a no - hitter for the Cubs in 1972, manages Chicago; Gene Hiser, a utility outfielder during his five seasons as a major - leaguer, plays for Chicago.

I just hope that when they trade, they go for lower level guys with potential, instead of AAA guys who have a ceiling of replacement big leaguers.

When Maglie talks about pitching, even the major leaguers listen, for here is a man who knows.

Some of them may try to hide when they see him coming, but there are probably only a handful of major leaguers in uniform who haven't seen the Clown Prince of Baseball at one time or another.

The rest of the team was filled with career minor leaguers (Mike Hessman, John Gall), quad - A players who hadn't been able to stick in the majors (Jayson Nix, Brian Barden), and youngish prospects on their way up (Trevor Cahill, Jake Arrieta).

There have been 79 Latin American major leaguers, starting with Cuban William Bellan, who played third base for Troy and New York in the American League back in 1871 - 73.

John Wilson of the Los Angeles Kings, who coached hockey at Princeton some years ago before moving into the professional game, remarked that Harkness would have to take a rather different approach with his professional athletes than he did with his Ivy Leaguers.

It's a significant increase from the current pay structure for G - Leaguers, who can not make more than $ 26,000 with a one - way G - League deal.

Evgeni Nabokov, a holdout last season, again played like an elite goalie; center Patrick Marleau, who had three goals against the Blues, replicated his 28 - goal regular season (tying Cheechoo for the team lead); forward Nils Ekman, previously a journeyman minor leaguer, chipped in 55 points while playing fewer than 15 minutes a game.

Tatis Jr. is the son of former Major Leaguer Fernando Tatis, who played 11 years for various teams.

FAST FACTS: For more on Young, who got 17.6 % of theunderrated vote among American Leaguers, see page 44....

In Watson's case, Michael Egelhoff, who had been molested by him as an 11 - year - old Little Leaguer in Riverside in 1975, was so haunted by that abuse that he asked a private detective to see if Watson was still coaching children.

Forty - one - year - old Stanley Matthews, who has a good head and a great pair of feet, is the idol of minor leaguers and schoolboys.

Flynn, an infielder on the Big Red Machine Cincinnati teams of»75 and»76 is, in fact, only 35, nine years younger than Tony, who's still out there playing with today's big leaguers.

Earlier, league - leading Canadiens beat New York 2 - 0, then lost able Goalie Jacques Plante, who suffered broken nose in practice session, but called up minor leaguer Bob Perreault in time to stop Chicago 5 - 0.

The Royals were 18 - 29 against lefthanders in» 86, which is why K.C. traded two minor leaguers to Baltimore for Beniquez, who will share righthanded DH duty with player - coach Hal McRae.

Eventually, spectators who had come to see the novelty of a high school youth pitching against major - leaguers began to appear at the ball park on nights Clyde wasn't working.

Next day before the game Musial visited in the clubhouse with Erv Dusak, former major - leaguer and now an insurance salesman, who 22 years before, almost to the day, had been called up by the Cardinals, along with Musial, from Rochester.

But was it Kyle who put together that google doc with all of the red wings / griffins current contracts as well as minor leaguers?

California DH Brian Downing certainly hopes so: He is one of two major leaguers (Frank Tanana is the other) who have played in parts of 18 seasons and never made an appearance in the World Series.

So how is it that a player who didn't command much money as a big leaguer — Koosman made $ 600,000 in 1985 — should now be so valuable on a baseball card?

Thanks to a chimpanzee who turns out to be a natural baseball player and a born matchmaker, a troubled minor leaguer's life goes on the upswing.

He sued Zuckerberg as did Ivy leaguers the Winklevoss twins (Gossip Girl's Armie Hammer and The Good Shepard's Josh Pence assisted by some digital trickery) and their associate Divya Narendra (Max Minghella, Syriana) who claimed Zuckerberg stole their idea.

Players choose from six character sprites who range from a little leaguer named Raptor, who wields a standard baseball bat, to Candyman, a mix of Pac - Man and The Joker who wields a long walking cane as his weapon of choice.

Not a small number of film lovers — those who see themselves in these foulmouthed little - leaguers — would call this one of the key movies of the»70s.

Maggie Lawson («Psych»), former softball all - star, is a newly single mom who takes on coaching a team of «Bad News Bears» Little Leaguers.

That is still true to some extent, though like in baseball, there are minor league players who can clean the clock of some major leaguers, and they get their spotlight from that position.

The stories and artwork are a tribute to the spirit of the Negro Leaguers, who were much more than also - rans and deserve a more prominent place on baseball's history shelves.