Sentences with phrase «leaguers more»

If the argument is that paying minor leaguers more would devastate baseball, you would have to at least listen.

While I respect your opinion, I'm curious what your solution to this situation would be (aside from paying minor leaguers more money).

Not exact matches

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.

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.

A team that's waiting for its stars to come around is much more dangerous than a team waiting for mediocre players and random minor leaguers to assert themselves.

In his first four seasons as a major - leaguer, first with the New York Mets and since 1972 with the Expos, Foli managed to get into more fights with opposing players, umpires, and even his own teammates, and to hit more innocent bystanders with thrown helmets, bats and balls than the average high - spirited player might in a 20 - year career.

I figured it would take a lot more than two minor leaguers to get Harold Baines.»

Do you think MLB and MiLB should do more to ensure their minor leaguers are getting access to the food and nutrition they need?

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.

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).

Make it more of a Super Futures Game, though, and it would split the difference between the 2008 strategy of not considering major leaguers and the Japanese strategy of shutting everything down.

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.

College baseball players still celebrate home runs more boisterously than the big leaguers do, and they still have to make the same MLB draft decisions they always did.

Rafael Furcal was the only major leaguer to score more than half the times he reached base last year (50.6 %).

Sportsmanship is great, but it's too bad these two Little Leaguers didn't have more time to practice this handshake so it wasn't so awkward.

But with the three G - leaguers he's being a lot more assertive because he knows he needs to.

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

Before his arrival in Oaklandhe never had more than 25 straight at bats as a big leaguer.

Though more often than not these days I would rather be watching Sunday leaguers slogging it out down at the local park for little more than the joy of the game and competition, I found myself fixated, along with millions of other world citizens, at the unfolding spectacle that is, and has become, El Clasico.

While Walker's accomplishment rests solidly in the shadow of Robinson, another player may be coming out of even more obscurity to supplant him as the true first African American Major Leaguer.

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.