Sentences with phrase «manager in baseball»

Like a manager in baseball, the key to success for a storeowner is finding the right balance of MVPs, hot rookies, up - and - coming prospects and veterans who are showing new signs of life.

Almost every manager in baseball is using analytics from the front office to inform decisions on the field.

Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy?

As in the business world, being a manager in baseball is about supervising people, trying to get the most out of a group of individuals over a long season.

Other coaches in football and managers in baseball have always done the same thing.

After the game, in a TV interview with Red Barber, he said modestly, «I've been lucky to have played for the two best managers in baseball: Casey Stengel and Chuck Dressen.»

Not exact matches

I remember [legendary baseball manager] Joe Torre telling me that there are only a couple of things you can control in this game: your effort and your preparation.

In perhaps his boldest stroke, Loria hired Ozzie Guillen — the longtime shortstop and then manager of the Chicago White Sox, a Venezuelan baseball legend.

A superb manager knows how to get the most out of every player on the team — in baseball and in business.

One manager allegedly «threatened to beat an underperforming employee's head in with a baseball bat.»

The start of baseball season is still several days away, but a recent survey conducted by Bank of America Merrill Lynch found that 59 percent of U.S. fund managers believe the current stretch of economic growth is in its «final innings.»

[But] studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they «re going to get fired.

The future of Canadian baseball is bright, and yet, Team Canada's manager, Ernie Whitt, decided relying heavily on retired MLB veteran Ryan Dempster was the way to go against a stacked Team USA lineup in a win - or - go - home affair.

They led the world in DL time during the regular season, to the extent that manager Dave Roberts had to make more pitching changes than anyone else in baseball.

Since he was fired from his job as assistant general manager of the Baltimore Orioles in December 1995, Robinson has been unattached to a professional baseball team, and he has been home day after day.

«The prettiest sight in baseball to a manager,» says Al Lopez, «is the double play.

In 1983, Alderson became general manager; his only baseball knowledge was that which he'd picked up as an Air Force brat.

But if you think Alderson suffers sartorially in the company of the rest of baseball's general managers, think again.

General question: How are the ways some players, managers, plays, careers, futures and other portions of Tiger baseball being questioned or denigrated on occasion, through articles and comments on this blog, in line with only quietly say nice things about people when they make a mistake?

If baseball were a game that could be played all summer with eight men and one pitcher, Manager Marty Marion would be in good shape.

John Hart, general manager of the Cleveland Indians, for whom Belle played the last eight seasons, said last week that Kevin Hallinan, baseball's security chief, had given him a «heads up» in March 1996 that baseball was looking into Belle's involvement in gambling.

Baseball managers traffic in double switches, football coaches make alterations to carefully constructed game plans, NBA coaches juggle personnel to exploit matchups.

The Cubs» long - awaited prospects arrived in the big leagues and matured immediately under new manager Joe Maddon, who has always looked, in his baseball cap and black - framed glasses, like a Dateline correspondent concealing a camera in his spectacles.

When he stands in the first or third base box, yelling, sleeping, blowing kisses, spraying water, there is an actual baseball game going on, and some managers — Gene Mauch and the late Paul Richards, for instance — tried at various times to keep Max from taking the field.

«I've been in baseball for 20 years,» said Phillie manager Nick Leyva.

MILEPOSTS — NAMED: To the Baseball Hall of Fame, LOU BOUDREAU, shortstop for the Cleveland Indians for 12 years and manager for Cleveland, the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs, who led the Indians to their World Series victory in 1948, the same year he batted.355 and was named the American League's Most Valuable Player.

Many in baseball worried that Sain's philosophy would ruin pitchers» arms, and that fact, along with his outspoken, no - compromise nature, irked certain managers and organizations.

After more than two decades in baseball, Wally Backman landed his dream job: manager of a major league club.

On Monday, they fired general manager Dave Stewart, manager Chip Hale, and vice president of baseball operations De Jon Watson, and removed Tony La Russa from power in baseball ops while letting him keep his role as chief baseball officer.

Eight years after his last major league job, the once hard - living, big - winning manager Davey Johnson is trying to rally the underdog U.S. in what may be baseball's last Olympic stand

The two clubs have shared players and managers ever since Brian Clough turned up at the old Baseball Ground and now that they are established as regular Championship sides they frequently tussle it out for supremacy in the East Midlands.

Mercifully, it was Blue Jays manager John Gibbons who went to the umpires to point out that this was gross and shouldn't be happening in a baseball game, playoffs or no.

Of course, what people mostly ask about is Rader's far - different public persona: Doug Rader, the zany, flaky Houston Astro third baseman who sat on a birthday cake in the clubhouse; Doug Rader, the madman in Jim Bouton's book Ball Four who advised kids to eat baseball cards to ingest all the information printed on them; Doug Rader, the raging tyrant - manager of the Texas Rangers who was fired after ferocious confrontations with players and writers.

There was the faith that Orioles owner Peter Angelos showed in him when he overruled all of his baseball men at the time — manager Johnny Oates, general manager Roland Hemond and assistant general managers Doug Melvin and Frank Robinson — and pursued Palmeiro rather than Clark.

Palmeiro was rated the second - best defensive first baseman in the league (behind J.T. Snow, then with the California Angels and now with the San Francisco Giants) in a Baseball America poll of American League managers.

Last December Philip K. Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, said that the club, in a violent divorce with baseball tradition, would have no manager this year.

Tommy Jones, his manager at Class AA Memphis for two months last summer, observed that Jackson probably reached the majors with less baseball experience — 89 games in college, 53 with the Chicks — than any hitter since Eddie Gaedel.

For most of baseball history, managers were helpless in crucial situations against lefthanded sluggers.

T. BAYARD NALDRIDGE Philadelphia Sales manager Yes, because there is more action than in baseball or basketball.

We're not saying extra innings shouldn't exist — exhibition or no, it's still baseball — but the Midsummer Classic could use some tweaks to make sure we're never again in a situation where Robinson Cano has to save the audience and the game's managers from running out of players in extras.

Arsene is the worst manager in the whole world, even a cricket or baseball coach can assemble a football team to beat him.

Instead, he's been placed in the dugout, leaving Marlins» President of Baseball Operations, Michael Hill, to run the front office, along with assistant general manager Mike Berger.

If I gave in and began negotiating baseball contracts through an agent, then I set a precedent that's going to bring awful pain to general managers for years to come, because every salary negotiation with every humpty - dumpty fourth - string catcher is going to run into months of dickering.

The outspoken general manager of the Dodgers, currently baseball's most successful executive, begins a four - part series on his joys and troubles in the front office with an account of the famous contract hassle in which pitching stars Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale «came at me as a pair»

All baseball fans know that a manager's strategy changes throughout the game, especially in one - run games.

In Major League Baseball, two of last year's playoff teams, the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, have hired rookie managers.

If that's the case, you could see if your tween might be interested in helping a local baseball team as a junior manager, bat boy, or coach's assistant.

Kevin also served in director roles including time as the Director of Baseball Operations of the All American Baseball Center North Campus in Pennsylvania and the General Manager of the Diamond Training Center in Pennsylvania.

Before the start of the game, Legislator Rath presented the county proclamation to Mike Buczkowski, Vice President and General Manager of the Bisons, and thanked team owner Bob Rich for supporting baseball in Buffalo.

Sports opinion: The St. Louis Cardinals MLB team recorded their seventh - straight win of the season against the Cincinnati Reds in St. Louis, MO, near Southern Illinois, but manager Mike Matheny's baseball team faces tough challenges ahead.