Sentences with phrase «top position player»

Snuffy was baseball's top position player in 1945, when many of the league's best (such as Ted Williams, Stan Musial and Joe DiMaggio) were serving in the military.

His points are mostly off base since the top position player free agent and the top pitcher free agent are both free of qualifying offer compensation.

To me staying at 4 at drafting the top position player is the most attractive option (I think QB's go 1,2,3).

Not exact matches

The top salary for a position player belongs to Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera, who will take home $ 28 million this year.

As noted above, we initiated a position in Fidelity National Financial (FNF), the largest and most profitable title insurance company in the U.S. Title insurance is a fairly concentrated market with the top four industry players controlling approximately 90 % of the market.

Walmart's scale and presence as the world's largest retailer not only starts to level the playing field with the world's top e-commerce player, Amazon, but it also puts the company in a better position to win against competing budget - friendly retailers like Costco, Target and Kroger.

The thing with inter they have a lot of players, Jovetic just came from Sevilla, can play across the top 3 positions, press, shoots and does the hard work, less injury prone than in his earlier days, will be 28 November and has EPL experience, valued at 12 - 16 million.

We also wouldn't be in any position to be able to sign any other world class player as we all know top footballers want CL exposure.

Arsenal now have 2 top quality players for every position and in some cases 3, we should be looking at playing the fittest players in their best position in every game and then when everyone is at the same level then sent le into the best x1, but rotation is still important to.keep up the fitness.

CB / DM are the most difficult positions for young players, that is why almost all the top ones are 27 plus, but, if they do not get a chance, they will never develop.

I can see the 22 year - old being a top central midfielder with a little bit of time, and we know how Arsene Wenger loves a bargain, as well as seeing how to get the most out of players with a position change.

- Ben, Joel and Cov are top 6 Defensive players per ESPN DRPM while they're all top 10 in RPM in their positions.

Wenger has no tactics, plays his favourite players over better players, gives long term contracts to average and injury prone players, hates strong physical players, plays players out of position, always looking for excuse like refrees and saying other teams played more in pre season, does nt spend money on players required like if we need strikers he will buy CAM, waits for other teams to buy top players and signs average on deadline day, calls accident when we lose, talks cohesion and mental strength when we beat terrible teams and win mickey mouse trophy like Asia cup and community shield.

I don't want to say this, but in the interest of Arsenal's Ucl success over Barca, I want to say, if the Ucl attacking quality of Barcelona's 4 players of, Suarez, Messi, Neymar and Rakitic will play for Barca against Arsenal in both 2 legged ties, the Boss MUST consider the possibility of upgrading the Arsenal's 2 CBs & DM position with 2 or 3 top quality new additions of a CB, DM and a striker to face Barca and knock them out of this round of 8 fixtures.

We need at least two top quality players in each position.

Regardless of what we all think of Pogba's ability, it's obvious that something isn't working and needs to be addressed from the top, and current players need to be improved so we only need to add to positions where actual quality is lacking (3rd MF, 2 fullbacks).

4 years and more ago, we were not in the financial position we are in today to bring in top players whilst retaining our current best.

The game requires that you predict the top 3 players selected at each main position group.

Ramsey is a top player, always played out of position at Arsenal.

The 22 - year - old is regarded as one of the most promising young players in Europe in his position, having shone in the German top flight in recent seasons.

Alexis came with a good spirit, seing Ozil on board, thinking a team would be built around them but year after year, it is no top class addition with a guessing game plan, weakness all over the pitch, players out of position, a team scared to play and lost as manager... Sanchez then started to ask more money, we said no as to Ozil; waiting 6 month later to be on last year contract... The all management is nuts and Alexis or any players try until they get fed up, Ozil plays to get fit for wrld cup and his value back...

At the average of 12 - 16 clubs play players in all positions to learn what it's about not a» supposed» top club.

Look at MC, they had missed a 6 mil player, Victor Kompany more than they would have liked and you couldn't really say that they had not tried to find quality cover / starter for this position given that they had spend 30 million plus on what initially looks like two top centre backs the last two seasons.

Isn't the point of having a LW and a RW such that TWO top class players can play in the positions?

No, we need a top quality centre back to partner Koscielny because to be honest Koscielny's injury record isn't that great either (he's missed 22 games in the last 2 seasons), so we need at least 2 top players for that position to cope with the inevitable injuries / suspensions / fatigue.

He lacks in athletic ability to make a top level defender (can get bullied off the ball by a stronger striker), but he's a very smart player, so his positioning and reading of the game is excellent.

Ozil is only very good if you have a better team than all the teams you are playing against, he needs to be in a team that has top players in every position and they all basically have to be very comfortable on the ball.

Holding should never be in that position to begin with, although he played admirably last season again he is young and should be slowly transitioning to first team while learning from other top senior players in his position.

The Reds could be in pole position to seal one of the most exciting signings of the summer after negotiations over the 21 - year - old Netherlands international, who is regarded as one of the top young players in the world.

We are not in such a strong position to be able to rest our top players for the big games.

Wenger also tells us it's difficult to find a quality player yet, it doesn't appear to happen to the other top teams, they get their man usually and the team usually have 2 or 3 players for each position.

To be a successful top level Prem player, at any position, you need a degree of toughness and physicality AND a will to overcome pain, discomfort and fight your socks off for the club (and therefore fans) who pay your huge wage.

However, I believe, we need to spend the money we have available, this window, to buy top class players in other positions.

Rooney is one of only three players in the top 10 who are still playing in the English top tier and therefore is in a good position to chase down the highest scorers of Andrew Cole and Alan Shearer.

I would praise Mr Wenger for finishing in the top 3 or 4 if he brought the world class players that we all know we need in the right positions and made a sincere effort to win something... The reason why a large number of Arsenal fans and critics are on his back is because for many years now Mr Wenger has neglected to strengthen certain key positions that would of given us a much better chance of winning trophies.

Indianapolis Colts: Minkah Fitzpatrick, defensive back, Alabama My only complaint with this top five is that it underplays the hysteria around the quarterback position, but as one GM looking for a quarterback at the combine told me, there have been and will still be serious flaws in all of these players that people outside the NFL world don't seem to take into account.

That's the benefit of having a squad where you can boast having two players for each position, a standard for any top side (which make a mockery of Jose Mourinho's and Pep Guardiola's recent complaints about the League Cup getting in the way).

Rory McIlroy, another player who once sat atop the OWGR, climbed up three position to get back inside the top 10, at No. 8, thanks to his second - place finish at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic.

Seems like every year every player that is top 5 at their position wants to be the highest paid at their position.

A QB who does not demand a top - 2 salary has better chances of surrounding himself with better players at all positions (after all, Blank is not taking any excess budget home).

The following kind of illustrates how the top paid players in a position group could skew the whole sample.

I know we have the whole summer but top quality is limited to a handful in each position and players are starting to disappear before the window opens ie.

Two of their position players finished in the top 10 in wins above replacement according to both FanGraphs and Baseball - Reference, and depending on which metric you use, the difference between those players and the leaders are negligible, at best.

United are in the perfect position to chop and change as they sit 12 points clear at the top of the Premier League, allowing Ferguson to rest several key players against Norwich before their decisive Champions League last 16 second leg encounter with Real Madrid on Tuesday.

The fact that he has NEVER beaten Mourinho — The fact that his teams capitulate to every single top team in the EPL, His inability to buy the right players and play them at the right positions, his inability to mold a fighting squad, his inability to change tactics, his inability to learn from past mistakes, and his complete inability to listen to others and take advice is UNACCEPTABLE.

We have seen as the concept of need is also very volatile in the NFL: one or two injuries at a position and a solid group is now shallow; you draft to become a contender the sooner, not to field the best team you can for the following season, and if a youngster becomes a top player at a position where you are stacked, you can later trade your veterans, or just have expensive contracts off the book...

Having 8 players on the field who are the top 3 - 4 players at their position in the Show would sure be nice, but it's not really realistic.

Sir Alex Ferguson appears to have hit the panic button and purchased a player that the club's own scouts stated about the acquisition «They ask you to create a top five of the best players in the league for every position.

Spot on bro... the problem with most of us Arsenal fans is that we've been made to accept average as our only option after been promised by Gazidis and other members of the board that we will compete with top European clubs... i feel some players need to be allowed to go in order for better ones who are ambitious and hungry for titles to come in... and someone made mention of Giroud saving Arsenal in a few games like the countless chances he's missed that could have put the club in better positions could be equated right... he should have done that against Watford, west brom and the rest... truth be told..

You'd have to go back to Wes Welker to find a player who was paid even a top 30 salary at the position.