Sentences with phrase «starting catcher»

Prior to law school, Tim attended Dixie State University where he obtained his degree in Business Administration and was the starting catcher for four years on Dixie's baseball team.

There's no doubt that Sanchez is the Yankees starting catcher — the question is who will play backup.

Other key players include Mitch Benson, typically the starting catcher as well as one of the team's pitchers behind Wolfe.

I wouldn't worry so much about drafting our starting catcher of 2023 right now.

They do have an issue of having a starting catcher that will be above league average but half the teams also have that issue and it could turn out to be that Murphy is the starting catcher in the post Iannetta Rockies.

That's the question facing the Red Sox, who have made boss Haywood Sullivan's son Marc their starting catcher

The Rangers reportedly offered more guaranteed money than Boston, but Napoli turned that down, likely because that team already has a new starting catcher in A.J. Pierzynski, a new designated hitter in Lance Berkman, and Mitch Moreland at first base once more.

Tony Pena, Boston's starting catcher, says Clemens has changed since he served his suspension.

The Cardinals should be struggling to stay above.500, bemoaning the loss of their ace, one of their # 2 starters, their starting catcher, their first baseman, and a half - dozen different outfielders.

The Padres gave a young starting catcher to their division and regional rival, and they received an expensive handyman's special in return.

Not exact matches

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In 1949 it all started with a butterfly on a coffee - pot drip catcher — today, EMSA is one of the leading manufacturers of household and garden items.

That's before they gave up an almost - ready pitcher to get Eduardo Nuñez, and that's before they gave up their best pitching prospect and a starting - caliber catcher for a reliever.

When you adjust for position, it's nearly as hard to find starting - caliber first basemen as it is to find starting - caliber catchers.

Let's start with their sensational sophomore battery of pitcher Nicole May and catcher Courtney Beaudin.

Game 2 of the ALDS, where he didn't believe catcher Gary Sanchez on a play that should have been challenged right after pulling CC Sabathia from his start despite the veteran rolling against Cleveland, and those events leading to a grand slam that allowed the Indians to come back and win, was the most notable recent example.

That might be when I started to have an open mind, but I probably came around to the importance of the catcher at the same time as the rest of you.

The A's have current or former All - Stars at catcher, first base, second base, third base, leftfield, centerfield, right - field, designated hitter, starting pitcher (three of them) and reliever.

By the afternoonof April 9 the baseball world had learned of the death of Angels startingpitcher Nick Adenhart and his friends Courtney Stewart and Henry Pearson in acar crash, and information started to emerge about that other passenger, a24 - year - old youth baseball coach named Jon Wilhite, who had been a catcher atCal State — Fullerton.

BY LATE February, as pitchers and catchers started to report to spring training, Desmond had yet to receive a single formal offer.

Pass catchers ponder early retirement when running the button hook, a pass pattern on which the receiver starts down - field, then turns abruptly and catches a pass with his back to his defender.

Even with Shields off of the table, though, baseball isn't quite ready to start: pitchers and catchers aren't reporting until we're most of the way through February, and there are still some loose ends that could be tied up before that time.

On May 23 in the second game of a doubleheader he played leftfield against the Phillies, his first major league start at a position other than catcher, as part of manager Lloyd McClendon's plan to ease the physical burden on three - time All - Star Kendall and to gain more offensive production from him.

When you look at the catchers all 25 teams are planning to start, you don't find a lot of obvious fits for contenders, and rebuilders would probably prefer to have a cheaper option with a better defensive reputation.

In other words, Sale use to start his windup facing the catcher.

Miami's leadoff hitters other than Gordon this season have done quite well in his absence, hitting.324 /.396 /.420, with time split at the top of the order mostly between outfielder Ichiro Suzuki (31 starts), second baseman Derek Dietrich (22 starts) and catcher J.T. Realmuto (21 starts).

As a result, six of Oakland's eight starting position players (Chavez, Giambi, leftfielder Ben Grieve, catcher Ramon Hernandez, rightfielder Matt Stairs and shortstop Miguel Tejada) as well as Hudson, the ace of the A's rotation, were developed in the organization.

«You got ta start with a catcher or you'll have all passed balls,» explained Stengel, who then, just a few weeks into the season, had Landrith traded to Baltimore for Throneberry.

He didn't seem to be the only one that lost track, as the catcher started to leave the field too.

The four - time All - Star has averaged 134 starts behind the plate in the last four years, and counting the postseason set a major league record with 2,725 innings caught in 2014 - 2015 with the Royals, the most ever by a catcher in a two - year span in major league history.

«Suppose,» said Elvin Tappe, one of the four — the others are Craft, Adams and Himsl — who will be with the parent club at the start of the season, «suppose a young catcher on the San Antonio club is having trouble blocking pitches in the dirt.

Kyle Seager hits one to the warning track off Twins catcher / former teammate Chris Gimenez, Gimenez tells him to start pumping iron pic.twitter.com/1c6 9cihdCM

Jim Bowden has heard prospect Austin Hedges» name in talks, while every other report seems to focus on the young pitching that the Padres have in their system: either scenario would make sense for the Rays, who focus heavily on catcher defense but also continually bring in other clubs» starting pitching prospects rather than sign established, expensive pieces that they can't afford.

She barely had time to start her slide when Colts catcher Caley Bonansea caught and tagged her on the shoulder.

George Corp — The Woodcreek - Roseville senior catcher has helped the Timberwolves to a 4 - 2 start by batting.529 with 9 hits and 6 RBI.

Spencer Patton — 1.1 Terrance Gore -0.2 Aarron Brooks — 1.5 Is a year where you got a starting pitcher, a back - up catcher, and playoff stolen base threat, and some AAAA relievers really worth a 0?

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IFC will release Lewin's The Catcher Was a Spy in select theaters starting on June 22nd this summer.

She grew up and became a lawyer, but eventually realized that wasn't where her heart was and started to write books for adults (including The Shadow Catcher and Fever Hill), then one day she came across her long discarded story notes about a boy and a wolf and all her childhood obsessions came flooding back!

Some people say it started in the 1940s, with books like Maureen Daly's Seventeenth Summer, and others say it didn't start to coalesce until the 1960s, with books such as The Outsiders and The Catcher in the Rye.

The large - format pictures, but especially the desert photographs, offer the viewer little orientation aids, not an eye - catcher that could serve as a starting and ending point for viewing the picture.

Lackner started working on the concept of an ambient carbon catcher in 1998.

The Wind Catcher project, a plan to build one of the nation's largest wind farms, is starting to move forward despite attacks from front groups with ties to fossil fuel interests.