Sentences with phrase «spring training this year»

The disagreement seemed settled until the start of spring training this year when Seaver ill - advisedly reopened the debate, charging unfair treatment the previous spring.

Then when he got to spring training this year, his work habits were what struck us all.»

Greinke's game - by - game velocity including four appearances in Spring Training this year.

This despite the fact that he destroyed three levels of minor league pitching last year, despite the fact he was arguably the most dominant player in all of spring training year and despite the fact that he is quite clearly the best player the Braves have under contract to fill the left field position to start the season.

Fifteen Major League Baseball teams bringplayers to Arizona for spring training every year where the athletes are exposed to a lung disease that's on the rise as the region's climatewarms and dries

I'm pretty sad I missed all the Phoenix spring training this year, but hopefully I can get back next spring.

Not exact matches

It was late spring, 1996, and Vince was leaving her job as a human resources training administrator at Sears in Chatham, Ont., after years of escalating sexual harassment.

Some years ago, during spring training in Florida, Schultz joined La Russa in the dugout during a game.

With spring training just around the corner, free agent shortstop Ian Desmond has finally found a new workplace for 2016, reportedly agreeing to terms with the Texas Rangers on a one - year, $ 8 - million contract, per Ken Rosenthal.

Gabrielson is built more like a full - grown Kodiak than a cub and hit some impressive drives in spring training, yet his home run totals in five years as a pro are not noteworthy.

As Hamilton didn't participate in spring training games while awaiting word of a suspension that never came, he does need this time to get himself back into game shape, lest the rest of his season look something like the awfulness that Kendrys Morales and Stephen Drew produced a year ago when they missed spring training.

A year ago Ellsworth spent spring training working on his breaking pitches and neglected his fast ball.

Whoever it was didn't visit the Blue Jays» spring training camp in Dunedin, Fla., and see a team confident that it had done enough in the off - season to improve on last year's 86 wins.

During an extra-inning spring training game last year, they used four pitchers younger than 24 who cracked 95 mph on the radar gun: Dreifort, Valdes, Chan Ho Park and Antonio Osuna.

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.

There aren't many more on the immediate horizon: An examination of Baltimore's farm system reveals a youth movement that's still several years away from bearing fruit, especially since top pitching prospect Luis Rivera, 22, went down with a torn labrum during spring training.

Earlier this year, Jim Harbaugh was a first base coach for the Oakland A's in spring training and apparently he left them with a piece of Michigan.

At the start of spring training in 1992, righthander Greg Gohr was considered one of the front - runners for AL Rookie of the Year.

One positive result, however, came out of the Wisconsin impasse: The owners» failure to iron things out among themselves virtually guarantees that baseball will be played at least through spring training of next year.

Case and point is Tyler Wade, who did great in AAA last year, and then had a fantastic spring training and now looks like he couldn't hit my 13 year - old nephews fastball.

Partly he signed out of loyalty, says Jaha, who was invited to spring training by Oakland last year when other teams didn't return his calls.

When he showed up at spring training strong and finely tuned after a full season of Puerto Rican winter ball last year, Martinez found himself on the trading block.

Cardinals +2000: The Cardinals were dealt a crap hand right from the get - go this year, as Alex Reyes, perhaps the best pitching prospect in the league, needed Tommy John surgery in spring training.

Remember the trade Atlanta made in spring training last year with the Indians, shipping out David Justice and Marquis Grissom for Kenny Lofton and Alan Embree?

That prospect was clouded when Nevin strained his left shoulder in spring training — a year and a day after he separated the same shoulder.

We know by now he has an offer for five years and around $ 125 million from Boston, that the Diamondbacks are presumably below that but we're not sure by how much, and he's perfectly fine sitting at home until spring training or after that — as long as it takes to raise these offers to something that he and agent Scott Boras consider more in line with his value right now.

Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala., will be the site of spring training on Monday, March 17, and Tuesday, March 18, for the second consecutive year.

The 37 - year - old Henderson, who entered spring training with the specter of an IRS investigation looming (though the Padres were dismissing the chance of jail time), is well past his prime, but playing in a new league could pump him up.

The final straw in Bradley's turbulent 2 1/2 - year stint in Cleveland — which included several spats with Wedge — came on March 31 during spring training, when Wedge thought that Bradley did not run out a second - inning pop - up quickly enough.

Last year, he was a train wreck riddled with corrosive injuries, and he hasn't performed well in spring, either.

They signed left - hander Francisco Liriano to a one - year deal at the start of spring training, but have otherwise remained content to let their bevy of minor league signings mix in with a roster that finished the 2017 season on a 6 - 24 run take its lumps in 2018.

Raburn, who'd last pitched in a game 12 years ago at South Florida Community College, had been in manager Terry Francona's ear about pitching since spring training.

I told him this year there'd be no tinkering after spring training.»

This year three teams, the Diamondbacks, Orioles and Phillies, found themselves in that unenviable position, scrambling when their closers went down with injuries late in spring training or in the season's first week.

In four of those games their batboy was a21 - year - old private investigator named Jason Glenn Heath, whose father, David, was a spring training batboy for the»69 Mets.

Every day after spring training last year, I took Jack Hubbard out, and we'd have a few pops.

In his sophomore year, however, a variety of training - related injuries truncated Jennings's autumn cross-country season and wiped out his spring track season.

Johnson, who admitted in November that he had lied for years about having served in Vietnam, bunked in the Safety Harbor, Fla., house of then Toronto first base coach Jack Hubbard and his wife, Terry, during spring training last year.

Bucky Jacobsen (nine HRs in 160 at bats last year) will get time at first and DH when he returns from knee surgery late in spring training.

When he arrived at spring training, Indians designated hitter Kevin Mitchell, 35, weighed in at 263 pounds and became the first Cleveland player ever to fail to complete the Warrior Run, a set of sprints totaling 850 yards, that the Indians instituted five years ago.

The Dodgers made him the second pick in the draft, and the following year, after only a brief stint in the Arizona Fall League, he made the major league club out of spring training.

In the spring of 2010, like Greene years before, he moved cross-country to California to train with Smith and has since taken the leap.

But with hopes for Wheeler and expectations that Harvey will be ready to go by next year's spring training, this team will again be one to watch in 2017.

When Yu Darvish was, at last, signed by the Cubs to a six - year, $ 126 million deal just before spring training camps opened.

He wants to play so badly that, jammed thumb or no, he was diving for ground balls on this, the seventh day of spring training, saying to himself, «Seventh game of the World Series... two out... two on...» like some 9 - year - old with a new glove.

«My best year was 1959, and that was the year we had a week of this shooting in spring training.

The Yankees supposedly wanted to get out everything that remained of Alex Rodriguez's contract — all three years and $ 61 million of it — but he showed up to spring training with all of his limbs attached, so that idea went out the door.

Altuve could have left sooner than the rest, but he signed a franchise - record, five - year, $ 151 million extension during spring training, keeping him around through 2024.

After having been away for five years, the free agent Hershiser has returned like the ghost of greatness past to find that the O'Malleys had sold the club to television people, that L.A. was on its third manager in three years (whereas Walter Alston and Tommy Lasorda had managed for the previous 42) and that there was talk of the Dodgers abandoning Vero Beach, their spring training site since» 48, for... Las Vegas.

Barring injury, a horrid spring training performance, or the arrival of the Unarian Space Brothers, Matt Cain will open 2006 in the Giants rotation, and will be a leading candidate for Rookie of the Year.