Sentences with phrase «minor leaguers»

As one person on the players» side put it: «We aren't giving them something that affects 30 percent of big leaguers and probably 50 percent of minor leaguers in exchange for something that affects less than 20 players every year, especially guys who are staring $ 17 million in the face.»

Considering the salaries of minor leaguers are paid by the parent club, the deceptive premise of helping minor league teams in small towns was odious.

It said that Frank Robinson had been named director of baseball operations of the Arizona Fall League, an eight - week developmental league for minor leaguers showing particular promise.

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.

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

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

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

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).

They're the biggest scam in baseball, really, other than pre-arbitration salaries and what minor leaguers make.

We're not talking about giving minor leaguers a cushy life, we're talking about paying them at the federal minimum wage, which is $ 7.25 per hour, and paying them for the time they actually work.

While I'm unprepared to argue the specific text of the bill, and everyone else has already pointed out how comically underpaid minor league baseball players are, considering they're the lifeblood of a multi-billion dollar industry, I'd like to remind everyone of an often overlooked point about minor leaguers.

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.

Rob Manfred and Tony Clark will text back and forth about different things they can take from amateur players and minor leaguers until there's a compromise.

Major league baseball's annual ritual for drafting minor leaguers is here again — with memory tests for the tappers

Griffey Jr. has 509 career home runs, and his bat inscription, SWINGMAN, was inspired by a certain NBA player turned minor leaguer.

The union's previous willingness to negotiate away the potential earnings of future minor leaguers, most of whom will never become MLBPA members, is probably the reason why the owners are comfortable asking for a straight exchange.

«A few years ago the common thinking [among Orioles minor leaguers] was you were pitching for every other major league team,» says Kohlmeier.

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.

Sounds like they want to bring Russell Wilson to spring training, talk w minor leaguers.

I could understand the reasons for the others (outside of Alex Wood for a 30 year old minor leaguer) but those two made very little sense at the time.

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.

In the wake of unfair wage lawsuits taken up against the league by players — which the league has emerged victorious from so far — MLB is pushing harder than ever to make sure minor leaguers are not privy to the benefits of normal hourly workers, lobbying lawmakers constantly to push this into law.

They add that the statistics produced are skewed because they are often collected against minor 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.

At the moment, to my knowledge, there is no effort to organize minor leaguers.

As a young minor leaguer in the Yankee system in the early»40s, Leo Righetti, known as Pinky, was brash, talented and crazy about baseball.

Gattis was traded to Houston along with pitcher James Hoyt for minor leaguers Mike Foltynewicz, Rio Ruiz and Andrew Thurman, the teams announced on Wednesday night.

Israel, composed largely of Jewish American minor leaguers and former major leaguers, will next face Brazil on Friday in a game scheduled for noon, a starting time that assures completion before sunset and the Jewish Sabbath.

That is covered under the «class» umbrella as the sharp player makes adjustments to roster changes, be it trade, injury, star minor leaguer, surprising and disappointing performers, etc..

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.

Boden and Fleck are best known for a few well - loved indie movies: Half Nelson, which gave us Serious Ryan Gosling; Sugar, a muted and brilliant look at a Dominican minor leaguer in Iowa; and Mississippi Grind, a lovely little gambling movie starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn that is catnip for movie bros everywhere.

(Deadspin, Minor Leaguer Suspended For Refusing Drug Test Says Testers Went To The Wrong Address: «I'm 28 Years Old.

All of which have to do with Alderson, whose moves no longer amaze A's relief stud Dennis Eckersley (himself an Alderson acquisition, plucked from the Chicago Cubs in a trade for three minor leaguers in 1987).

It's not just about limiting the salaries of minor leaguers.

What I want you to consider is what it means to be a career minor leaguer, chasing a dream that never arrives.

Paying minor leaguers a living wage, especially when most of them are going to be spit out on the other side, 10 years older and without any transferable job skills, shouldn't be a radical concept.

Since their introduction to the game in the late 1960s, the Canadian Hockey Association and Canadian Hockey League have made helmets mandatory for minor leaguers, and helmets also must be certified by the Canadian Safety Council.

Lester sat there in 2004, a minor leaguer controlled by a franchise of doom, watching as the doom swirled around his parent club, knowing what to expect, the pain that was going to happen.

The team later announced that those minor leaguers will be RHP Caleb Cotham, RHP Rookie Davis, INF Eric Jagielo, and INF Tony Renda.

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.

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

I think meals [that are healthy] would be great [for the minor leaguers to have].

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.

The NHL Players Association was reaping the profits, yet NHL regulars too often yielded ice time to minor leaguers.

Alderson, meanwhile, traded two minor leaguers — players to be named later — to the Texas Rangers for designated hitter Baines, an All - Star in four of his last six seasons.

27 Worst Trade of the Year: Milwaukee Brewers send Gary Sheffield to San Diego Padres for Ricky Bones and two minor leaguers.

Gary Nolan was sent to California for Infielder Craig Hendrickson and a player to be named later; unsigned Rawley Eastwick went to St. Louis in exchange for minor league Pitcher Doug Capilla; Mike Caldwell was dealt to Milwaukee in return for two minor leaguers; and Pat Zachry wound up in New York as part of the Seaver deal.

In July 1930 he declared that outfielder Fred Bennett, a minor leaguer in the St. Louis Browns» system, was a free agent, charging that team owner Phil Ball was stalling Bennett's career.