Sentences with phrase «plate appearances»

No team in the league has a higher percentage of plate appearances (78 %) from the right side.

He has three hits in 44 career plate appearances, so hey, why not?

«It gives more people an opportunity to get into the game and get more playing time and more plate appearances,» she said of playing both positions.

From 1957 to the present, a player must have 3.1 plate appearances per team game.

Twenty years ago, 34.1 % of plate appearances in which a hitter had two strikes ended in a strikeout.

Oliver will play mostly at first base, but Caro could see action there while getting plenty of plate appearances as a designated hitter.

Combining weak plate appearances with terrible defensive jumps is no way to go through your MLB career.

He was Baseball America's No. 7 prospect overall before the 2003 season, but his struggles would be so pronounced that he got just 33 more plate appearances for them over the next two seasons, spending most of his time in Triple - A instead.

Clemente, who earned his 3,000 th hit in what would become the last plate appearance of his career, was killed in a plane crash while helping to deliver relief supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in December of 1972.

As for Team Maione they got great Defense at short from Captain Frank «Yung» Maione and some stellar plate appearances from Tyler «Colvin» Max.

Plus, on Napoli's end, it works much better than a contract with incentives based on plate appearances.

Unlike Springer, Pederson made an out in his first plate appearance of the game, and the Astros escape the first with a 2 - 0 lead.

Pierre started with an 0 - 2 count in 698 plate appearances over his career.

Maybe not in a fresh count, given Baez's issues making contact — he had already struck out 12 times in 29 World Series plate appearances before this one.

Maybe this one will have fewer plate appearances by Chase Utley's ghost later on.

Pierre had 818 one - pitch plate appearances in his career, more than a full season's worth, and that would seem to be the downside of a strikeout - free approach.

Fielder's career line is.283 /.382 /.506 — good for a 134 OPS +, which ranks eighth among all hitters with at least 5,000 plate appearances between 2005 and 2016.

Harper got 24 plate appearances vs. the Giants in 2016.

Austin's next plate appearance was against Sox reliever Joe Kelly, and Kelly was not as lenient as Hembree.

In 26 career plate appearances against Rhodes, Thome has one single, one double and two walks.

In my opinion, taking either of those guys with to Puerto Rico would be done as a human interest story, akin to when the Marlins gave Adam Greenberg an at - bat in 2012 after his career was derailed when he was beaned in the head in his first career plate appearance years earlier.

Four years, two shoulder surgeries, and 648 mostly unimpressive plate appearances later.

Furthermore, Torreyes has a career 2.1 oWAR in those limited plate appearances.

Plus, there was the unfortunate matter of Eduardo Escobar's 377 lost plate appearances.

so i included WAR totals but not plate appearance totals.

An NL team could carry an extra hitter and be more aggressive about pinch - hitting, and some teams might just want a designated pinch - runner who will play in more games than they'll log plate appearances.

While it's noteworthy that he's three walks away from his career high — in 355 fewer plate appearances compared to last season — and the change in his approach could explain a lot, I'll err on the side of the previous five seasons.

I'm still dubious because he really hasn't been more than mediocre offensively in 700 + plate appearances at AAA level.

... Last week Willie McGee made his first plate appearance since his off - season knee surgery.

It's that he's terrifying the rest of the league so much that he's walking every fifth plate appearance, while showing the discipline to crush whatever does float through the zone.

His.519 slugging percentage would be among the league's best if he had enough plate appearances.

«Even though the offseason was quiet, the Dodgers still have 10 of their top 11 players in plate appearances returning, and nine of their top 10 pitchers.

Acquired forthe second time by the Oakland A's, on May 3, Cust appeared in his first majorleague game in two years on May 6 — and in his fourth plate appearance launcheda pitch over left centerfield at Tampa's Tropicana Field.

Belt - tightening clubs were fearful this off - season of being stuck paying an aging slugger with potentially nosediving skills; last season Dye hit 27 home runs, but his post-All-Star break slugging percentage of.297 ranked 204th among the 206 players with 200 second - half plate appearances.

Only 6 players have more than 3700 plate appearances right now Helton, Walker, Cargo, Vinnie, Tulo, and Bichette.

The 27 - year - old Jones hasn't matched that goal — he had reached base 38 times in 111 first - inning leadoff plate appearances (34.2 %) through Sunday — but he has certainly energized Minnesota's offense.

He allowed just 24 hits in 206 opponent plate appearances.

Matt Feinstein leads the Team with total times reached base with 6 of 9 plate appearances so far this season.

Thanks to excellent health — Ichiro has averaged 157 games per season for his stateside career — and a tremendous ability to collect hits — Ichiro ranks 13th all - time in batting average among the 90 players who have amassed as many plate appearances as he has — he's been able to close that gap.

Profar has been getting playing time, but not nearly enough for his ability: he's played in 41 games and logged 143 plate appearances while batting.316 /.364 /.451.

Note however, that from 1967 to the present a player could lead if they still led after the necessary number of hitless plate appearances were added to their at bat total.

Here's the full details: «In the 1988 World Series against the Oakland Athletics, Gibson saw only a single plate appearance in the series, but it was one of the most memorable and oft - replayed in baseball history.

Last season, in 147 plate appearances with double - A Harrisburg, Harper batted.256 with three home runs, 15 walks, and 26 strikeouts.

We're in year three of the Avisail Garcia Experience, and he's accrued 1,283 plate appearances for the White Sox, with an adjusted OPS of 93.

Cespedes has walked about as much in his 2,435 career plate appearances as Joey Votto did last year, but he makes up for that lack of discipline with otherworldly athleticism and strength.

Mahtook had 400 plate appearances from last year, logged a.787 OPS, which is admittedly only above average at the major league level.

He's owed $ 22.75 million in 2018 and has a $ 22 million vesting option for 2019 that's within reach, as it's based on plate appearances (497) he doesn't need anywhere near a full season to surpass.

Relatively small sample size but batting.333 /.406 /.492 in 138 career plate appearances in AAA.