Sentences with phrase «many major league pitchers»

Stony Brook University boosts an enrollment of more than 26,000 students, and counts talk show host Joy Behar, major league pitcher Joe Nathan, and Pulitzer Prize winner Scott Higham among its notable alumni.

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.

He lacks the self discipline to be a major league pitcher.

Would be pretty cool to see what it's like to look at major league pitchers, at least during spring training games or something.

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...

Ted Lilly is a former major league pitcher.

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.

The number of pitches thrown by major league pitchers is closely monitored to protect against injury, but monitoring pitch count is even more important in younger players because growing bones and joints are more susceptible to injury than in adults.

We think he's a quality major league pitcher.

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...

If anything, that should re-enforce the notion that a dependable major league pitcher in the hand is worth two in the bush.

While many will remember him for his success as a major league pitcher, we remember him as an amazing father, loving husband and loyal friend.

To most major league pitchers, three strikes meant an out.

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

But Stephen Strasburg did more in his first week as a major league pitcher than live up to the hype: He became the rare player who fills stadiums.

And here's another update to an earlier column, the one about my grandson receiving the gift of an expensive baseball glove from Major League pitcher Heath Bell, then of the Florida Marlins and currently of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Approximately 10 percent of all major league pitchers have undergone UCL reconstruction and that number is likely to rise.

Similarly, Eric Cressey has mentioned the disparity between major league pitchers who can throw over 100 mph fast balls, but have a vertical leap of 18».

He starts to brainstorm and comes up with an idea that he will hold a sort of athletic talent show in India to try to find the next major league pitcher from a country that no one has ever tapped into.

The fact that you can go out to your back yard and throw a baseball does not make you a major league pitcher.

It is named for Major League pitcher David Wells, a PLHS alumnus.

Imagine telling a major league pitcher their no - hitter no longer counts because they gave up ten runs in their next outing.

Not exact matches

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

The future of one of the most feared relief pitchers in Major League Baseball, Mariano Rivera, is suddenly in doubt after he tripped during a recent New York Yankees team practice in Kansas City, Mo..

• Montreal pitcher Mark Gardner tied a major league record by hitting three St. Louis batters in one inning.

The proper analog would be 1968, when the entire National League had a collective 2.99 ERA, which was boring as heck and followed by Major League Baseball lowering the height of the pitcher's mound.

Sporting a major league best 71 - 43 record, one of the top young outfield prospects, and one of the top pitchers in...

Headed by current Major League Scout for NY Yankees, former San Francisco Giant's Outfielder and Team USA Silver medalist Jalal Leach and assisted by Jarman Leach current associate scout for Kansas City Royals and a former professional pitcher in the San Diego Padres Organization.

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

Right now he's the best pitcher in the major leagues

They could then be used or traded, as is most advantageous, as the Tigers» minor league pitchers move to the majors in the next 4 years.

The Mariners ended Honeycutt's Jack - of - all - trades career by designating him a pitcher and immediately putting him on their major league roster.

Secondly, the Tigers have a bunch of relief pitchers of varying promise, none of whom has established themselves as major league material.

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).

I think there is legitimately a question of whether Julio is a legit major league starting pitcher in 2018 and 2019.

Also, pitchers in the major leagues are pretty good, you know?

Whatever the case, many of the winningest pitchers and top home run hitters in the major leagues since 1920 were born in close proximity to one another

Lollar was a good - sized, at his present 6» 3» and 195 pounds, and successful pitcher by the end of his sophomore year at Mineral Area College, a juco near his home in Farmington, Mo. (He's no relation to Sherm Lollar, the former major league catcher who also lived in Missouri.)

At 37, Whitt has 11 years and 17 days of major league experience; Atlanta's top 10 pitchers have a total of 11 years and 97 days in the majors.

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.

He is not a viable major league starting pitcher at this point.

No, unless you'd like to watch their pitchers challenge the major league record of 827 walks, set by the 1915 Athletics, in which case you really need to get out of the house more.

Ruth's entire major league experience for 1914 was five games, four as a pitcher (he won two) and one as a pinch hitter (he faced Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators and struck out).

Playing Experience: As a pitcher Jason's experience began locally and includes stops at every level from Granada Little League to the Major League Rosters for both the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds.

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.

His 200 or more strikeouts in nine consecutive seasons is a major league record, as is his 2.48 career earned run average among pitchers who have worked at least 2,000 innings.

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

Moya looks like a pitcher who can contribute in a major league bullpen right away; Murphy was hitting poorly for a Triple - A catcher, much less someone who belongs on a major league roster.

THE PRIDES OF THE WAYWARD BUSES When Atlanta pitcher Zane Smith couldn't make his scheduled Aug. 5 start in San Diego, 29 - year - old Cliff Speck and 28 - year - old Ed Olwine — who between them had 18 full minor league seasons and 17 major league appearances — combined to beat the Padres 3 - 2 for the first victory and save of their respective careers.