Sentences with phrase «season for a baseball»

A successful season for a baseball player is judged by both individual and team performance.

A successful season for a baseball team is determined by the performance of individual players, as well as the team as a whole.

Since we are currently in «off» season for baseball (although somehow I'm still driving them to baseball related stuff three to four times during the week, ha) we do not have any games which means wide open Sundays.

On the sidelines of a Nintendo event coinciding with the start of the season for baseball's Seattle Mariners, in which the company is a lead investor, Vice President of Marketing George Harrison said a GameCube cut was contingent on whether any Sony price cut is to $ 199 or $ 249, from the current price of $ 299.

Not exact matches

Take Curt Schilling for example, who made in excess of $ 100 million over his 20 seasons with Major League Baseball.

The folksy and quotable Yogi Berra played for the New York Yankees over 18 seasons, during which he and the team won 10 World Series titles, a baseball record.

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These vary by locality, but typically include channels that show professional baseball, basketball and hockey games in the regular season, for example NESN in New England and MSG in New York.

Thank you, sane person, for stepping up to the plate, (This being baseball season..)

They'd also make a perfect snack for when you're sitting around watching some Monday Night Football (or baseball or whatever sports is in season) and need something to munch on, don't ya think?!

With Major League Baseball season officially kicked off, I say we celebrate with ballpark food for the big game.

During baseball season, she covers the San Francisco Giants for CSN, and often anchors the network's flagship show, SportsNet Central in the offseason.

The Sox announced Thursday they will be the first Major League Baseball team to serve drinks without single - use plastic straws for nearly an entire season.

These decanter baseball shaped bottles will be perfect for gifting this holiday season.

And you need to really, really, really forget about the idea of Major League Baseball shutting down for a couple weeks during the season.

Now is the time for Miami to play the way Southern Cal used to play — they'd be around 500 because of the highly competitive nature of California college baseball — then, after a hard fought season, they'd win their regional and on to Omaha.

As baseball's new season begins, the previous one recedes into dim memory, even for the World Series champions

Indeed, using adjusted OPS for the last three seasons, they are the best middle of the order in baseball.

He belted Marshall's first pitch, a not - so - sneaky fastball, into those riotous bleachers, and the 1974 baseball season was, for all practical purposes, over.

Now note that the 95 - win team just replaced Ben Revere's miserable 560 OPS with Eaton, who's been one of baseball's most productive players for the last three seasons.

A left - handed reliever with one of the highest strikeout rates in baseball over the last few years, also around for the next three seasons.

No - hitters have always been a metaphor for every championship season in baseball history — took some skill, took some luck, was sure a lot of fun, wheeeeeeee, let's do it again!

For seven seasons, he was just about the best pitcher in baseball, if not the best.

Unfortunately for us fans, no league has locked its players out as often as this one over the last two decades — 1,698 regular - season games lost, more than major league baseball, the NBA and the NFL combined.

This is a great time of the year for sports fans — and especially sports investors — as the baseball season is starting up, the hockey playoffs are heating up, and NBA teams are jockeying...

The premier tournament showcasing young talent, The Cepeda Baseball Caribbean Classic is ramping up for it's 5th season.

We used Baseball Prospectus» projections for the 2013 season and compared those to 5Dimes MLB win totals to see if there were any large discrepancies.

These days, after the college season is over, the loveliest ballpark in America becomes home to the Alpine Pony League team, coached by Scotty Lewis, who, like his father before him, went to college on a baseball scholarship paid for by Herbert Kokernot Jr..

And there's no earn in baseball fandom, no sandwich punch card that you redeem for a free championship or Hall of Famer after 15 paid lousy seasons.

If the Marlins want him to play baseball while New York is paying him for the rest of 2016, then A-Rod will play baseball in Miami to close out the season.

This one numbered 15,450, small potatoes as compared to the crowds of 100,000 overseas, but considerably above the Dodger average for the early baseball season.

Instead it provides $ 1,600 a season in each city to be split up among the baseball writers who act as official scorers, and another $ 1,400 for the three lucky men who happen to be scorers in the World Series.»

Today, the A's are among the biggest spenders in baseball — and the salaries are going up (salaries listed are projected for the 1991 season).

My satisfaction level for a baseball season is as follows: Winning the World Series = 10 Losing the World Series = 5 Losing an earlier playoff series = 2 Losing the wild card game = 1.5 Being relevant in September = 1 Sucking = 0 (Last two years have been 1's.

Both teams, by a happy irony, were tied for fourth in the final regular - season Collegiate Baseball rankings.

It was a smart, cagey move to get him, as he's been healthy and productive for 13 out of his 14 full seasons, and he was one of the most valuable shortstops in baseball just last year, once defense and baserunning are taken into account.

What would baseball be talking about, and how easy would it be for this information to color how we look at the entire season?

Your favorite Gamecock Sports Podcast returns to dish on a record - breaking women's team, an inconceivably odd men's basketball season, and what will be for the baseball team.

These two communities had long been local baseball rivals, but such rivalries grow most intense in the 12 - year - old year, that final magical season of Little League for boys, when they are young enough to be considered children yet old enough to play the sport at a highly athletic level.

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.»

His story strains credulity: After graduating from high school, he turned down a scholarship to Texas A&M and swore off the game; underwent treatment for drug abuse and depression; embarked on a four - year odyssey around the country in search of spiritual understanding before he was led back to baseball; was drafted in the 23rd round in 2010; then made the Braves» Opening Day roster a year after starting the»12 season in high A ball.

Beneath its towering palms many leading trainers prepare their young trotters and pacers for the Grand Circuit, the touring series of prestige races primarily for 2 - and 3 - year - olds that gets into full swing in mid-June in places like Detroit, Lexington, Ky. and Saratoga, N.Y. Pompano is analogous to baseball's spring training camps: you get the athletes into shape in the South, then send them North for the regular season.

John Hart, general manager of the Cleveland Indians, for whom Belle played the last eight seasons, said last week that Kevin Hallinan, baseball's security chief, had given him a «heads up» in March 1996 that baseball was looking into Belle's involvement in gambling.

Maybe free agency depleted the ranks of great athletes competing for Kroton — look what happened to the Oakland A's after the 1976 baseball season.

But perhaps the most important thing is, after four work stoppages from 1981 - 1995 that saw three different seasons shortened (1981, 1994, 1995) and one World Series (1994) cancelled, this new agreement through 2021 means that baseball will have relative labor peace for over a quarter century.

Entering the season, Baseball Prospectus's PECOTAprojection system cited Francoeur as Kemp's most comparable player, recognizingthe two rightfielders» similarity in power and athleticism; Francoeur was astar defensive back in high school, Kemp was better known for his basketballskills when the Dodgers drafted him.

Heading toward the zero hour of baseball's shopping season, here are several contenders» wish lists as they gear up for a postseason push.

Unless baseball voluntarily complies with the decision, which seemed doubtful as of Monday, the case is likely to slog through the legal system and keep the nine umps in limbo for the rest of this season.

Which for a season long baseball concern is relatively good, but it isn't like they won't also still fail 65 - 70 % of the time.

As for the farm system, it was ranked 28th out of 30 teams entering the season by Baseball America, and it was in such a bad way that the Angels traded away their long - time second baseman for a prospect reinforcement.