Sentences with phrase «on the baseball player»

UP, UP AND AWAY GO SALARIES Sir: As a basis for comparison with your March 4 cover story on baseball player salaries, I have enclosed a copy of your Oct. 7, 1968 cover featuring the St. Louis Cardinals.

The most notable new player animation is the hit varieties, which range differently depending on the baseball player batting.

Not exact matches

Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the team.

A recent report from MVPIndex ranked the top 10 Major League Baseball players on social media, who are doing their part to engage the masses.

Much like baseball stats are invaluable for pro players» learning and improvement, sales stats are invaluable to helping you see objectively what sales methods are working best for you and what you need to work on to improve year - over-year.

Apple executives on stage showed off its new phones displaying AR apps, including one built by Major League Baseball that lets spectators attending a live game see player statistics when they hover their phones over a particular athlete.

Bryce Harper is already known as one of the best players in baseball, but his home run on Monday night proved just how much strength the Nationals» right fielder has at his disposal.

The average 26 - year - old player in this year's All - Star game likely has been playing baseball since age 5 and has been on a pro scout's radar since his late teens.

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

For much of its history, Major League Baseball has aligned the value of its players according to traditional stats, like batting average, home runs, stolen bases, earned run average and so on.

In baseball, the Oakland A's used a single new statistic called on - base percentage to accurately measure a player's worth.

In baseball, the decisions made based on a player's statistics are unlikely to alter the player's success.

When I was a troubled young man contemplating suicide, he was in the voice of a Christian baseball player who gave a radio interview that inspired me to go on.

But most of the energy is sexual — one young man carries on an affair with his cousin, who is married to a minor league baseball player.

I know, like when they aborted the 1994 World Series on September 14 of that year due to an ongoing strike by the Major League Baseball Players Association, which had begun on August 12.

And, in due time, angel - like baseball players appear to play on the field.

We chat, and I pass on books about American baseball players so that he can improve his English and endure the long hours by the gate.

A former baseball player turned gymnast, Jake Dalton made the Olympic team in 2012, just months after tattooing Philippians 4:13 on his side.

Cincinnati Reds infielder Scooter Gennett became the 17th player in baseball history to hit four home runs in one game, clubbing a quartet of home runs against the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night.

There were only 10 homegrown players on the 40 - man roster as of Feb. 3, easily the lowest percentage of any team in baseball.

Manny Machado is essentially the perfect baseball player, so he doesn't count, but the rest of the lineup has warts, even as they're on pace to be one of the greatest collections of sluggers in league history.

Harper is still on track to be the highest - paid player in baseball.

The Angels are suddenly baseball's must - watch team, even after they spent a yearly Department of Defense budget on a player who aged like an unpeeled banana.

Daniel Murphy, Corey Seager, and Kris Bryant are finalists for the National League Most Valuable Player Award, announced on Monday by the Baseball Writers» Association of America, with Mike Trout, Jose Altuve, and Mookie Betts the finalists in the American League.

He was a chapter in the story of baseball that I'd want to pass on, and highlight in a museum dedicated to highlighting great players.

William Jessup University Baseball Camps in Rocklin, California offer an opportunity for players to receive valuable instruction on the fundamental skills of bBaseball Camps in Rocklin, California offer an opportunity for players to receive valuable instruction on the fundamental skills of baseballbaseball.

A finalist to be the Mr. Baseball State Player of the Year, Gambrell led Buchanan by going 12 - 0 on the mound with a 0.69 ERA.

Two of their position players finished in the top 10 in wins above replacement according to both FanGraphs and Baseball - Reference, and depending on which metric you use, the difference between those players and the leaders are negligible, at best.

Their words weigh heavy on the hearts and minds of our Noles Baseball players.

Then he scored the run that sent the Royals to the World Series on a ball that... maybe four percent of baseball players would have scored on?

There are reasons to rage at the world, and the Rockies» players not getting a shiny MVP - 2 or ROY - 3 next to their season line on Baseball - Reference isn't one of them.

I didn't have baseball players on my wall, but I had a Marty Hogan poster in my bedroom.

NBA players have five times as many road games as their NFL counterparts and far more free time on trips than do major league baseball players.

It would be nice to be able to get value out of switching on whichever game has the best or most interesting players at any given time, though on the other hand baseball probably saps enough of my productivity when I'm watching / following at most one game per day.

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?

The way he could change a pitcher's entire career with 1 pitch deep dives and his dedication to the minor leagues with player interviews (I'm still a part of the «Gomber Pyle» fan club) got me so focused on baseball minutia you could have swore he miscounted my Ritalin.

«Now,» ventured a Boston Globe writer the other day, a bit hyperbolically, «if the Red Sox can keep the highest - paid player in baseball out of prison, he might be on his way to surpassing feats of 1986 and last season.»

Here we have one of the worst hitters in baseball history, a symbol of the post-Mays era, a player who was booed so much by San Francisco fans that he once took the field with «BOO» stitched on the back of his jersey, and one of my favorite players as an adolescent.

The Cleveland baseball writers voted him Man of the Year last season; this spring his Indian teammates picked him for the Golden Tomahawk Award, which honors a player's «good sportsmanship and contribution to baseball on and off the field.»

The players went on strike in 1994 because the owners didn't believe baseball would survive without the kind of salary cap that has successfully and artificially suppressed salaries in the other major sports.

«When I put on my uniform, I'm a baseball player,» he says, explaining his aggressiveness.

SI presents its own baseball quiz: questions and answers compiled by Paul Abramson on the game's plays, players, incidents, and history.

The coach at UTPB, Brian Reinke, remembered that Gattis, now 22, had been a talented high school player; Reinke often jokingly told Kendrick that Gattis had a spot on the team if he ever wanted to return to baseball.

If there's a master list of disliked baseball players, Ventura is on it.

Now, we've entered a new, overt phase of the labor war where ownership, emboldened by a weakened players» union, have focused on greed above all, and baseball itself is in danger.

As a sportswriter, much of Barbara's output has been devoted to baseball players, distance runners, racing drivers, game wardens and other familiar characters on the American sporting scene.

He didn't though, and part of what makes this homer great is that everybody got to watch a baseball player not rein it in on the biggest stage of his career, and just lean in to how much he enjoyed that great moment.

Eight wins is the cutoff for our purposes because a) it gives us a healthy pile of seasons to sift through, b) the cutoff has to be somewhere, and c) that's what Baseball Reference roughly describes as an MVP - caliber season in the shorthand description on every player's page.

We're going to skip the editorial and get right to the stories this morning, as baseball lost two players to car accidents in the Dominican Republic on Sunday morning: Royals» pitcher Yordano Ventura and former top prospect and infielder for a number of big - league teams, Andy Marte.

Baseball is a hard game that is hard on its players.