Sentences with phrase «player at bat»

His rating system is not concerned with pitching or fielding or the relative cleverness of managers; it is made solely to evaluate a player at bat in the clutch.

Not exact matches

The ping of an aluminum baseball bat is not a common sound at Pahokee High School, a place far more known for it's tradition of producing top pro and college football players.

It does mean that we can say things like, «Pfft, if you make Ichiro a player - manager until he's 52 and give him 400 at - bats every year, he could break Rose's record in the majors, too.»

Those three players might have been a part of the problem, but they weren't the reason the White Sox were so disappointing, Crumbling defense, especially in the infield, combined with hundreds and hundreds of at - bats given to low - upside young players, hamstrung the White Sox far more than the offseason mini-spending spree helped.

I can't believe that I'm advocating for fewer at - bats from a player who hit 25 homers last year, but considering this is the organization that let Chris Carter walk, they know what I'm talking about.

Other than Mike Trout (193 OPS +) and Andrelton Simmons (111 OPS +), every single one of their position players to take an at - bat for them this year is a below - average hitter, according to adjusted OPS.

Bats will be a Chelsea player until 9.30 pm tomorrow night at least.

Sandoval homered in his first two at - bats off of Justin Verlander and then Al Alburquerque, making him only the fourth player in MLB history to have three home runs in a World Series game.

Nava became only the fourth player in major league history to hit a grand slam in his first at bat and the second to do it on the first pitch.

The workshop included a trip to a Rockies — Red Sox game at Fenway Park and a three - part assignment: tape a stand - up introduction, interview a player in the seats and jostle for position during batting practice to grab a big leaguer for questions.

Womack is likely to be only the third AL player since the mound was lowered in 1969 to have 325 at bats without a home run and fewer than 20 RBIs, joining the Orioles» Mark Belanger (1978) and the Rangers» Wayne Tolleson (1984).

Except Clifton himself fumbled at the MTSU 16, and the ball got batted around a bit before another Arkansas State player fell on it for a touchdown, 98 yards or so from where Middle Tennessee's Tucker maybe caught the ball a few moments earlier.

Chelsea finished 10th in the league before Chelsea took over — and the only «new» players he got were: Victor Moses (who nobody thought was actually a good player), Marcos Alonso (thought to be an average player who had flopped at Sunderland), David Luiz (PSG flop, was being kicked out because Marquinhos took his spot), and Kante (very good signing)(and Bats I guess).

The National League player of the week was Chicago Cub reliever Jim Bullinger, who saved four games last week and hit a home run in his first big league at bat.

Those at - bats are better used to develop other players.

Forget Gattis's home runs, slugging percentage (through Sunday it was.593, fourth highest in the National League among players with at least 150 plate appearances) and the 6» 4», 235 - pound frame and compact, batting gloveless righthanded swing that exude old school strength.

Home runs now occur more frequently than double plays, and nearly half the regular players hit at least 20 dingers (43 % of the players with 400 at bats did so last year).

While Norman isn't specified as the player who directed pregame comments at Beckham, the Panthers star cornerback was holding the baseball bat and Stapleton says that Beckham perceived it as a message being sent.

Rookie Barry Bonnell batted the highest in the league for a player with 100 or more at bats -LRB-.368).

Herzog's leadoff hitter, Vince Coleman (27 RBIs in 517 at bats), is so bad in that category that he will probably be the first player the Cards try to trade after the season.

He's one of only 63 players ever to play enough to qualify for the batting title at 39, and his OPS + ranks 19th among them, surrounded by some all - time greats like Frank Thomas and Chipper Jones, Tris Speaker, and also Jeff Kent somehow.

A game of inches in which 90 feet separate the bases, ten hits can be the difference between hitting.280 and.300 over 550 at bats, and the very best players in the world still fail 65 % of the time... yes.

Here is the nightmare of every baseball player who goes where he's told because he just wants to get at - bats and help the team:

Everybody at the top of the White Sox lineup has contributed: At week's end leadoff man Tim Raines had a first - inning batting average of.389, Joey Cora had scored 21 runs, Frank Thomas had hit 10 homers (no other player had more than seven) and driven in 25 runs, and sometimes cleanup hitter Robin Ventura was batting a major league - high.511 (23 for 45) with 22 RBIat the top of the White Sox lineup has contributed: At week's end leadoff man Tim Raines had a first - inning batting average of.389, Joey Cora had scored 21 runs, Frank Thomas had hit 10 homers (no other player had more than seven) and driven in 25 runs, and sometimes cleanup hitter Robin Ventura was batting a major league - high.511 (23 for 45) with 22 RBIAt week's end leadoff man Tim Raines had a first - inning batting average of.389, Joey Cora had scored 21 runs, Frank Thomas had hit 10 homers (no other player had more than seven) and driven in 25 runs, and sometimes cleanup hitter Robin Ventura was batting a major league - high.511 (23 for 45) with 22 RBIs.

It wouldn't be the last time he'd play baseball in North America, as the Cubs signed him to a minor - league deal where he was a player - coach back in 2014, and then he went on to play in the Dominican Winter League where he batted.313 /.409 /.510 at the age of 42.

It's unclear exactly where the 30 - year - old fits into Los Angeles» plans for 2015, as they already have Juan Uribe at third, Howie Kendrick at second, and an outfield already overflowing with players, but if his bat is as good as his numbers in Serie Nacional imply, they'll find room.

Freese is known for a lot of things — personally, I like to think of him as the player traded by the Padres in exchange for 90 at - bats from Jim Edmonds — but he's nothing if not a steady, reliable, worthy big league regular.

Fitzgerald was trying out the SmartKage at Mike Murphy Baseball Academy in Concord, a technologically enhanced batting cage which can test, analyze and evaluate players across several measurables «'' and not just for hitters, but fielders and pitchers as well.

Player I just wasn't buying Justin Turner, who is having a better season than a lot of those people, but hasn't had as many at - bats

In 2017, he had a.260 xwOBA, which was 290th among 300 players with at least 250 at - bats.

Considering that both of these players provide power at the expense of batting average, you can safely drop these two Astros sluggers in your rankings.

(Official qualification is based not on at bats but on plate appearances; a player must have 3.1 for every game played by his team, and Bonds had 3.6 at week's end.)

Brittney Perez -LRB-.531 average through 11 games) and Kiana Parrish -LRB-.630) are two Rams players whose at bats are must - see.

Pretty sure Minnie Miñoso wasn't one of the best 650 players in baseball in 1980, when he got two at - bats and played in his fifth decade.

From the ASB - end of season in 2016, he had a.275 xwOBA, which was 83rd among 86 players with at least 250 at - bats.

He's hit.209 /.283 /.293 in 382 at - bats over the last couple years, and those are numbers that help players retire early.

Sam, a senior shortstop at Messalonskee High and a John Winkin Award finalist for Maine's best player, batted.475 and slugged.729 this season, leading the Eagles to a 6 — 3 win over Scarborough for the Class A state championship.

«Bursting at the seams with players» — Yea except Poldi, Campbell, Sanogo, Wellington, Jenks, and Flamini could be sold and no - one would bat an eyelid.

Last season 656 players had at bats hitting righthanded, 381 lefthanded.

This is the extremely paranoid world of «bat doctoring,» the dark and ridiculous subsection of one of our nation's most tame neighborhood sports, where some players spend upwards of four figures and literally risk lives to hit a ball kinda far and maybe, just maybe... win a cheap plastic trophy or nearly - unwearable T - shirt at the end of the season.

And still the 49ers decided to use draft picks on players at those same positions this spring without batting an eye.

What player attended President Clinton's inauguration and, during his short stay in Washington, squeezed in some batting practice at Catholic U?

It was in Bessemer that young Melvin began flabbergasting his elders by reading the papers, particularly the sports pages, and by reciting, at the slightest provocation, current batting averages, RBIs and ERAs of popular major league players.

Anyway, my first idea was to simply multiply a player's batting, fielding, and baserunning runs above average, all of which you can find at Baseball - Reference.

As a senior at Wichita State in 1993, playing in his hometown, at the school where his father, John, was and still is a professor of history, Darren went 11 - 1 with a 2.48 ERA and, as the Shockers» DH, batted.327 with 22 homers and 66 RBIs; his accomplishments won him the Golden Spikes Award as baseball's top amateur player.

Most big league managers believe that the approximately 60 at bats or 20 innings pitched that a player is afforded in the spring can't possibly provide a sufficient sampling of his skills.

They don't have a lot of starting pitchers who can miss bats, and they'll start the season with substantial worries about the players at third, behind the plate, and in right field.

The rest of the lineup features solid - to - excellent players, so it's too easy to get hung up on that troika, but it's not like you have to concoct the ultimate doomsday scenario to get 1,700 combined at - bats of 100 OPS +,.310 OBP and 500 strikeouts.

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.

Posey is the favorite to win the NL Most Valuable Player Award, what with his.334 batting average, 23 home runs and 100 RBIs and the Comeback Player of the Year Award, after he missed the last four months of last season after breaking his leg in a collision at home plate.