Sentences with phrase «minor league season»

Although he's still something of a free swinger, Long is a speedy (20 - plus stolen bases in four of six minor league seasons), powerful and graceful outfielder who, on his best days, does a pretty mean Andy Van Slyke imitation.

In four minor league seasons, the younger Kendall hit.301 with 66 doubles.

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.

He showcased his power and speed during his rookie year, finishing the season with 13 home runs (he only hit 29 homers in seven Minor League seasons) and 17 stolen bases.

Alou, who is more of a crisp line - drive hitter, had a.338 average for five minor league seasons.

Not exact matches

Drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in 2005, he spent five seasons playing professional hockey in the minor leagues and Europe.

For the St. Paul Saints, the answer wasn't clear in 1993, though the minor - league team broke all sales goals and captured the Northern League title in its first sleague team broke all sales goals and captured the Northern League title in its first sLeague title in its first season.

Every season in German soccer's Bundesliga (literally: federal league) the best minor league teams are promoted to the Bundesliga while the worst Bundesliga teams are demoted.

Tim Tebow played 19 games with the Mets» minor league team with mixed reviews on his season from officials throughout the major league.

Round Rock has established numerous attendance records at Dell Diamond and has remained in the top five in total attendance in all of Minor League Baseball 14 of the past 15 seasons.

While zooming through three levels of the minor leagues last season, Snider batted.275 -LRB-.349 OBP,.480 slugging) with 23 home runs and 91 RBIs.After a late - August call - up to the majors he hit.301 in 24 games and now saysthat playing in the big leagues was «easier than I thought.»

Coming out of GWHS, then heading to College of San Mateo, finishing up at SSU, then playing professionally in the minors and foreign leagues for six seasons, his journey is one of perseverance and tenacity.

Ten years later, SB Nation spoke with three of the leaders from the 2007 squad — head coach Mike Bellotti, offensive tackle Geoff Schwartz, and safety Patrick Chung — to tell the story of a program - changing season; one that never could've happened without a symbolic equipment bonfire, a genius from New Hampshire, and a certain minor league baseball player.

Although Arsenal fans are 99 % certain that the Gunners can not qualify for the Champions League by finishing in the Top Four of the Premier League and our only remaining hope is to win the Europa League and sneak in the back door, like Man United did next season, it would appear that the Boss thinks his team need to win against some «big teams» before we can consider winning the minor European trophy.

In 1971, after another minor - league season in which he batted.261 and hit six home runs, Foli finally did make the Mets in spring training, and it was then that The Sporting News described him as «King of the Rednecks.»

Last year Gattis hit 18 more homers and batted.305 at three minor league levels, finishing the season at Double A.

Except don't forget that each of them had more than 100 games at third in the minors, and both of them played minor - league games at third in their first professional season.

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.

Vardy is PL proven but only has one big season and is towards the end of his career and Jansen has only been prolific in a minor league (for one season) but is young and talented.

Even if, and I do not for a minute think that we will be this lucky, the injury problems picked up by Santi Cazorla, Laurent Koscielny and Alexis Sanchez during the draw at Norwich turn out to be minor, and they are able to play for Arsenal again soon, I firmly believe that our chances of winning the Premier League title this season hinge on the January transfer window.

The Arsenal injury curse strikes again and what we were initially told was a fairly minor ankle problem ended up needing an operation to fix it, and now we have the usual setback to his recovery and the upshot of it all is that our Spanish midfield maestro Santi Cazorla will not be adding, during the current season at least, to the eight Premier League appearances he made before being subbed off during the Champions League hammering of Ludogorets Razgrad.

Hamilton stole 155 bases this season in the minor leagues.

Before the 2002 season, Baseball America ranked him as the No. 9 prospect, but Henson pressed in the minor leagues because he wanted to justify his decision to leave school.

But over the last four years, Cox has replenished the farm system — the Braves» top three minor league clubs all played in league championship series last year — and in the off - season he sought to improve the major league club's offense with the three AL imports.

Because he worked out all spring in Atlanta's minor league camp, the 19 - year - old Avery could go a full nine innings the first week of the regular season.

Bakayoko, who helped Monaco reach the semi-finals of the Champions League last season, was set to have already had his medical with the club, however it had to be postponed as the midfielder required minor knee surgery at the end of last season, as reported by Sky Sports.

Both Park and Suzuki were expected to start this season in the minor leagues, but Park has been so impressive this spring that the Dodgers are talking about placing him on their Opening Day roster.

The new trend for the season is minor league hockey teams creating ugly Christmas sweater themed jerseys for their teams to wear.

This season he has got the 19 year - old Chuba Akpom remaining with the first team squad although he has only made one substitute appearance in the Premier League plus a few minor cup games.

They signed left - hander Francisco Liriano to a one - year deal at the start of spring training, but have otherwise remained content to let their bevy of minor league signings mix in with a roster that finished the 2017 season on a 6 - 24 run take its lumps in 2018.

At the least, it would be a good challenge for him, and if he manages to stick around for an entire winter season, it might give him another chance at joining the minor - league team of an MLB club next spring.

The left - hander, a sixth - round pick in 2014 by Arizona, has a 1.95 minor league ERA in three seasons, with 169 strikeouts and 35 walks in 111 innings.

With arguably the best minor league system in all of baseball, it's not surprising that the Cubbies are projected to win an additional nine games this season.

Even the players who have essentially no shot at ever making it to The Show — the career minor league guys, the ones who will retire to focus on their families after only a few years — deserve to be paid a fair wage during their time in small cities paying their way through season after season of minor league ball.

The 1983 Chicago White Sox are doubly blessed, because down among the Sarasota, Fla. palms they not only have Ron Kittle, last season's Minor League Player of the Year while performing for the Edmonton Trappers, but also Greg Walker, another exceptional prospect who just happens to be Kittle's closest friend.

Last season they were nearly outdrawn on a few occasions by the neighboring St. Paul Saints of the Northern League, an independent minor league League, an independent minor league league oufit.

He had a son who also played major - league ball; Derrick May played 10 seasons with the Cubs, Brewers, Phillies, Astros, Expos and Orioles and is now the minor - league hitting coordinator for the St. Louis Cardinals.

But it's going to take 100 victories to win the NL West, and the Astros, 81 - 81 last year, aren't that good yet — not with a shortstop (Andujar Cedeno) who spent half of last season in the minors, a leftfielder (Luis Gonzalez) who hit only.243 and a catcher (Eddie Taubensee) who has played in just 130 major league games.

He was the minor league Player of the Year last season, batting.354 at El Paso and.359 at Salt Lake City, but he is down to.229 with the Angels.

After a nondescript debut in the Eastern League as a 21 - year - old, he only spent one more season in the minors before becoming the Reds» starting shortstop for 19 straight seasons.

Arsenal surely have to win the competition now to ensure they can get back into next season's Champions League as it would take a minor miracle for them to break into the top four now.

But now, with just six League games to go, he has finally admitted that we are unlikely to make up the 13 point gap to fourth place and he will now go all out to win the minor European trophy as our only hope of getting back into the UCL next season.

Gibson had played for the Trotters during one minor league off - season, but the team's clowning — and patsy opponents — didn't wear well on a man so zealous about winning.

They were among the few fans who had season tickets to the Las Vegas Wranglers, the minor league hockey team that folded in 2015.

Signed to a minor league deal before the season, Morrow held opposing batters to just.194 /.241 /.213 this season.

The third baseman is just 23 and was selected second overall in the 2013 draft, and he terrorized minor league pitching in his first full season: Bryant started the year in Double - A even though he had just 36 games of pro experience behind him, and he batted.355 /.458 /.702 with 22 homers before pummeling Triple - A pitching to the tune of.295 /.418 /.619 with another 21 homers.

This year marks the seventh season that teams from Antioch to Red Bluff and Benicia to Sutter have upgraded their facilities to one of the premier minor league stadiums for a memorable high school game with a big league feel.

I am not writing Arsenal out of the race for the Premier League title this season just yet, well not completely anyhow but I reckon it would take some kind of minor miracle for it to be Arsene Wenger and the Gunners who lifted the EPL trophy next May.

Dodgers minor league highlights and results from Tuesday from their four domestic full - season affiliates.

This despite the fact that he destroyed three levels of minor league pitching last year, despite the fact he was arguably the most dominant player in all of spring training year and despite the fact that he is quite clearly the best player the Braves have under contract to fill the left field position to start the season.