Sentences with phrase «pitched better this year»

We've pitched well all year, but since we got Fred McGriff, we've been scoring runs consistently.»

Who hadn't pitched well all year?

Not exact matches

The pitch was that if you just keep your money in the market when the going gets rough, such as in bear markets, the substantial upside in the good years will more than compensate for the down years, thereby leaving you with a solid annualized gain over long - term.

Now in its 10th year, SEP begins with the recruitment of the best and brightest of female entrepreneurship and culminates with an invigorating Pitch Competition for seed capital.

It's so, so classic, but the tarte tatin at La Bourse Et La Vie in Paris was so pitch - perfect — so much better than any tarte tatin I've had in France in decades — it provoked one of those «Ratatouille» - like moments where suddenly I was back in France for my junior year, tasting my first - ever bite.

I know we're short in central midfield, but Arsenal would actually be better off playing with a man less, than having Ramsey on the pitch, and Giroud proved over a whopping FOUR YEARS, that he isn't good to be our main striker.

With life treating him well on and off the pitch, there seems to be no limit to what Alli can achieve as the 20 - year - old has bagged himself 17 goals so far this season and continues to establish himself as one of the top players in the Premier League.

This formula has worked well for Chicago this year, because the pitching has been sound and the defense, particularly around second base, has been superb.

And even though Mike Zunino got good marks as a pitch framer last year, wouldn't it make sense for the Mariners and Brewers to make a patience - for - immediacy exchange that would benefit them both?

Pitching was good today minus the big inning and one of the only reasons we hover at.500 for the year.

Best pitching performance of the year.

Alexis came with a good spirit, seing Ozil on board, thinking a team would be built around them but year after year, it is no top class addition with a guessing game plan, weakness all over the pitch, players out of position, a team scared to play and lost as manager... Sanchez then started to ask more money, we said no as to Ozil; waiting 6 month later to be on last year contract... The all management is nuts and Alexis or any players try until they get fed up, Ozil plays to get fit for wrld cup and his value back...

As well as talking up the quality that Crystal Palace have on the pitch, Wenger spoke about their new manager Sam Allardyce and the proven Premier League nous and experience that he has shown over the years.

G - Rude am an Arsenal fan like you, over the last couple of years Balotelli has been a well behave footballer on and off the pitch.

The 24 - year - old left - back has caught the eye this term and could make a good replacement for Filipe Luis at Stamford Bridge, with the Brazilian failing to look like adequate backup to first - choice Cesar Azpilicueta in that part of the pitch.

The great thing about Don Drysdale's year was he'd go to the ball park the day after he pitched and think, well, maybe I'll get a chance to pinch - hit.

I've spent 15 years of my life (which is more than half of it) following this football club throughout good and bad and I can not believe I keep wearing an Arsenal hat and scarf everywhere I go and I waste my weekends seeing such excrement left out on the pitch.

The last couple of years have been the best for a long time for Arsenal and the fans, financially speaking as well as on the pitch.

The competition makes it's return after a year out, with last summer's European Championship as well as necessary pitch reconstruction work having forced the club to cancel last year's edition.

Mertesacker shouldn't be given a contract, not because of his age, but he doesn't have any other thing to offer on the pitch, Cazorla on the other hand needs at least two year contract, I would have preferred a year but since we don't have creative midfielder like him and I said it in one article a while ago we needed his replacement since three years ago, someone who is good and can learn from Santi also.

1) On the pitch: - we always start 3 -4-3 but always switch back to a back 4... it isn't tactical as we look bad in both - Bellerin playibg LWB when you have the best in the bundesliga last season on the bench - Welbeck playing the striker role when he can do everything but score when you have Lacazette a record signing on the - Monreal in back 3 when you have Kostafi who can flank Per in the middle protecting him against pace as well as having a commending figure and - Telling Xhaka to not play as a 3rd offensive player when Ramsey dashes - Playing a guy in Ox so out of position and persisting with him over preseason as if he would be there for years when it is clear he doesn't want to play for us (his case is a weird one)

Last year I thought we were the best team once Coq started to see the pitch.

Ramsey — overpaid, overused, injury prone, not clinical enough as a passer or finisher and he's played out of position way too much to the detriment of our supposed offensive and defensive schemes... obviously I think he has some skills and I'm pleased he didn't let his horrible injury years ago end his career but he holds on to the ball too much, gives away the ball too often and too cheaply, doesn't play good enough defensively considering the previous concern and often finds himself to far up the pitch way too often for a guy who doesn't score or assist near enough... better suited for Wales where the team is set up to accommodate his and Bales skills

this tells me that the financial prudence we have extolled as prudent for the clubs future and for the adherence to FFP is really a smoke and mirrors situation we need a striker (opinions differ to which one) we need cover for Le Coq (again opinions differ) and maybe we need one other in another area of the pitch, but if we don't get them we wont be better than we were this year and we wont move closer to the real glory.

The reason Nasri and RVP did so well was because they played with confidence and didn't always follow the manager's passing instructions, you would see them dribble past players to create goals and show their discontent with the team when we played badly, we haven't seen that for the past 5 years, it's like the manager doesn't want players to take command of a game and that would explain why we never have any leaders on the pitch.

Hugh Freeze just finished his first year at Ole Miss and could have made some very good recruiting pitches, such as promising them a lot of playing time right away.

Or perhaps he spent thousands and thousands of hours on his pitching motion, compiling the best pieces of advice from a dozen different coaches over the first 30 years of his life, connecting neurons and patiently building layers and layers of muscle memory.

regarding Lacazette his going to make a huge difference in our goal tally, we always needed a player with his ability in and around the box, Laca is a better version of Lukas Podolski, for years now we are always passing the ball around the opposition box for ages with no end result but with Laca with his accurate aim and powerful shots we should do well, that is if he gets enough time on the pitch,

They're looking good this year despite the loss of their best player, Michael Brantley, thanks to strong pitching and homegrown players, and that sort of thing can quickly erase a history of failure.

Players who pitch really badly their first year back might not get a second year, so wouldn't the data get more skewed towards good results as you get farther from the surgery and pitchers who aren't good enough to stick in the MLB drop out of the dataset?

And if down the stretch we're in it but need more pitching, we've got one of the minors best pitchers (Luzardo) as a possible reinforcement (I know, I know, he's almost certainly not coming up this year, but I can dream — as a side note, I really think teams like the A's should be more aggressive with promoting pitchers who have shown they can pitch and have stuff that seems like it can get out major leaguers — why wait when they'll probably just blow out their elbow anyway — might as well get some quality innings out of them in the majors — yeah, I'm salty about Puk, but whatever, I've held this belief for a long time).

From his legal problems and tax errors, there have been plenty of off - the - pitch distractions for Neymar this past year, although he seems to have dealt with it well considering he played his part in winning La Liga as well as securing a domestic double.

All three are likely to get some starts with the Tigers depleted pitching staff next year, as well.

Well, despite Ozil winning the German Player - of - the - Year 4 times in the last 5 years, his countryman Dieter Hamann thinks that the German supporters also underestimate the amount of work that our superstar does on the pitch, although he personally believes that Ozil has improved at the Emirates.

no one ordered the man to build a strike force around walcott and giroud or to put a quid on suarez «s asking price or to bring in nogo and park (or perez for that matter) or to sell gnabry and play iwobi regularly or to have ramsey playing in every position bar goalkeeper or to take 7 years to work out how to get the best from Ox or to believe merteshaker was alright for the epl when he was way past his international sell by date or to forego a world class DM for 5 years and then plonk down 30 odd mill on an average swiss international or try out a series of makeshift right backs and hope bellerin would maintain his earlier form and fitness... stan n`chips and co are certainly a shocking example of contemporary football ownership but on the pitch its all down to wenger and his delusions

Of the Tigers, Reds and Blue Jays — the year's most unexpected division titlecontenders — Detroit has the best chance of making the playoffs because of itsyoung and talented pitching staff, which at week's end led the majors in ERAeven though 38.7 % of the team's innings had been logged by hurlers under age 25 (starters Jeremy Bonderman, Zach Miner and Justin Verlander, and setup man JoelZumaya).

Fantastically talented, the only player who can claim to match Ronaldo for skill and effectiveness on the pitch during those years was Lionel Messi, and which player was the best was always a matter of significant and sometimes heated debate.

In the midfield, (including RWB & LWB) we have a whole bunch of tweeners... none offer the full package, none make sense in our manager's current favourite formation, except for Sead on the left and Ox on the right, and all of them have never shown any consistency for more than a heartbeat... Sead, who I'm including in this category because of our present formation, looks like a positive addition, minus his occasional brain farts, but I would rather see what he could do in a back 4 before making my mind up... Ox, who has never played better, which isn't saying much considering his largely underwhelming play in previous seasons, seems to have found a home in this new formation; unfortunately, can we really expect this oft - injured player to handle the taxing duties that come with said position over the long haul, not to mention, it looks like he has no intention of staying... Ramsey has relied on the empathy that stems from his gruesome injury years ago and the excitement that was generated a few years back when he finally seemed to put in altogether, but on the whole he has been a big disappointment (neither he nor the Ox have scored enough to warrant a regular spot)... Wiltshire should be put on a weekly contract then played until he suffers his first injury, if and when that occurs he should be shipped - out and no one should very be allowed to say his name on club grounds ever again... Elnehy & Coq are average players who couldn't make any of the top 7 teams currently in the EPL... both have showed some great energy on the pitch, but neither are top quality and no good team can afford to have that many average players on their bench playing the same position, especially with Coq's injury history / discipline concerns and Elheny's headless chicken tendencies... as for Xhaka, his tenure here so far has been incredibly underwhelming... we know he has some skills to provide the long ball but his defensive work is piss poor and he gives the ball away too cheaply and far too often... finally, the enigma himself, Ozil, so much skill with his left foot but his presence has been more frustrating than uplifting... in many respects his failure has been directly related to the failure of this club to provide him with the necessary players up front, minus Sanchez of course, and unless something drastic happens very soon his legacy will be largely a negative one (much like Wenger's)

The best thing that could have happened to the Phillies this year was for a pitching staff to sprout out of the soil, making them feel comfortable with an aggressive offseason.

Mertz should never have been our captain in the first place... who has ever heard of a team that makes 11th hour transfer buys (Arteta & Mertz) then seemingly places those same individuals into prominent leadership positions from the get - go... indicative of the problems that have permeated our clubhouse for the better part of 7 years under the Kroenke & Wenger... what is wrong with the players chosen and / or the management style of Wenger that doesn't develop and / or encourage strong leadership from within... Mertz was the fine collecting lackey from year one... this is what happens when you don't get world - class players because many times they want to have a voice on and off the pitch and this can't happen when you play for a fragile manager who has developed a coddling wage structure where everyone is rewarded for simply wearing the shirt and participating in the process... not enough balance between performance and pay, combined with the obvious favoritism shown to some players regardless of their glaring lack of production... remember that Ramsey has played in positions that make no sense considering his skill - set (out wide) and has forced other players off the field or into equally unfamiliar positions with little or no justification (let's remember when you read articles about how Ramsey's goals this upcoming season being the potential X-factor for our success that this is the same individual who didn't score a goal until the final week last season)... this of course is just one example of many... before I hear another word from Mertz I want this club to address the fact that no former player of any real consequence has any important role in the management structure of this club, yet several former Gunners have expressed serious interest in just such an endeavor (Henry, Viera, Adams, Bergkamp... just to name a few legends)... there is only one answer: an extremely insecure manager!!!

Then why did that traitor jumped in the arms of AF when he scored against us, I can forgive Sanchez he gave it all on the pitch but no way I can bring myself to forgive that traitor for leaving us after years of being injured we stuck by him an as soon as he had a season and a half of good play he went to the enemy and celebrated goals against us, they hate him in Turkey suporters and punters canot belive his carector

The first of those players is one the best pitching prospects in the game in 22 - year - old Noah Syndergaard, and the other is Steven Matz, a prospect who underwent his own Tommy John procedure back in 2010 but has since recovered and shot up the ranks.

Call me optimistic but I believed the injury problem will get better next year, the signing of the new American physio must be the second best signing we made this season (behind Sanchez of course)-- our players are getting back from injury faster (Giroud), fitter (Ozil), found root causes of recurrence problem (Ramsey)-- and even Diaby managed to spend some good minutes on the pitch

But he did his best to assess the mood of the assembled governors and thereupon expressed his pitch in metaphor: «There are a lot of ball games being won in the ninth inning this year.»

Bol since you ask yes we could of won it last year had we got DM / ATT in summer / winter... I give wenger a break only because, he hasn't had his best team on the pitch in years always a top player missing.

They look to be close friends and after playing together for a few years in Germany they should have a good understanding on the pitch as well.

we can that De get is the best player on the pitch that has performed consistently for the past 2 years which compared against Ozil and Sanchez who have been on patchy form.

When Arsene Wenger first took over as the new manager of Arsenal Football Club over 18 years ago, the Frenchman was not very well known but he soon became known around the world for his innovative ideas, both on and off the pitch.

Gloria al Bravo Pueblo, the Venezuelan national anthem, is a long, martial - sounding tune Lollar got to know well — too well, for his taste — while pitching for Barquisimeto of the Venezuelan Winter League last year.

However, as Welbeck states, the plastic pitch that Sutton play on may not be the best idea for him to come back to, especially having suffered with his latest knee injury for almost an entire year.