Sentences with phrase «well as pitchers»

Not exact matches

Even though he's regarded by many as the best pitcher in the majors, that price tag would appear staggeringly high considering starting pitchers are only expected to start anywhere between 30 and 34 games.

He tries to stand on anything that can be used as a step, like the Lego bucket, my nice stainless steel bowls, pitchers, whatever looks good, you can see the wheels a-turnin» in his head as he tries to figure it all out.

The Ninja Kitchen System that I have includes both single - serving blend cups, as well as the large blender pitcher.

We're going through the work of making strawberry syrup and juicing oranges, we might as well make a whole pitcher of margaritas.

Using a hand - held mixer (you can use a blender as well) puree everything for about 3 minutes until you get a smooth puree, then transfer to a pitcher, cover and add to the fridge for at least 3 hours to let all the flavors develop

Wait so you're saying that bc of rankings that we don't have a pitcher of the same quality as giolito or better?

New York's perennial losers pulled a name out of a hat and came up with Tom Seaver, a $ 50,000 bonus pitcher who steals bases as well

There are a few different theories on why this could be, such as good teams being more motivated to enter the break on a high note, and / or star pitchers getting the last start for solid teams.

Left - handed pitcher Perez had his $ 6M option picked up, while Barnette's $ 4M option was declined but he'll get a $ 250k buyout as well.

The EBAL now has a Hall of Famer as well in pitcher Randy Johnson of Livermore plus there's been more recent emerging MLB stars like Brandon Crawford of Foothill and Stephen Piscotty of Amador Valley.

How much better would this team look (and the organization as a whole) if they still had a young, up - and - coming pitcher with team options through 2021?

This leaves out the questions about just how good he'll be in his transition to MLB, too — Maeda isn't in the same tier of pitcher as fellow NPB imports such as Yu Darvish or Masahiro Tanaka, with many believing he's a mid-rotation arm at best.

Players who pitch really badly their first year back might not get a second year, so wouldn't the data get more skewed towards good results as you get farther from the surgery and pitchers who aren't good enough to stick in the MLB drop out of the dataset?

And if down the stretch we're in it but need more pitching, we've got one of the minors best pitchers (Luzardo) as a possible reinforcement (I know, I know, he's almost certainly not coming up this year, but I can dream — as a side note, I really think teams like the A's should be more aggressive with promoting pitchers who have shown they can pitch and have stuff that seems like it can get out major leaguers — why wait when they'll probably just blow out their elbow anyway — might as well get some quality innings out of them in the majors — yeah, I'm salty about Puk, but whatever, I've held this belief for a long time).

If a pitcher is a good fast ball pitcher, he operates in much the same way, using his curve as a waste pitch and to keep the batter guessing, his changeup to keep him off balance, the fast ball to get him out.

I'm a curve ball pitcher and I just don't believe there is such a thing as a good curve ball hitter.

That's out of all players, as well, not just pitchers.

As far as Dodger pitcher Bob Welch is concerned, Sutcliffe deserves another award: best supporting actor in a short subjecAs far as Dodger pitcher Bob Welch is concerned, Sutcliffe deserves another award: best supporting actor in a short subjecas Dodger pitcher Bob Welch is concerned, Sutcliffe deserves another award: best supporting actor in a short subject.

Two questions are invariably asked of a good - hitting pitcher: Why not use him elsewhere in the lineup between starts; and if he fails as a pitcher, why not play him elsewhere full - time?

«You don't see young pitchers come in as starters anymore and surprise you with how good they are,» Cards closer Dennis Eckersley says.

As the baseball world reacts to the loss of a great pitcher and an even better person, many are also remembering the heights he reached during his career.

Armed, however, with avicious split - fingered fastball that's as good as ever and the aforementionedhardheadedness — Clemens is a staunch power pitcher the way Strom Thurmondremained a staunch conservative to the grave — Clemens concedes nothing.Whatever velocity he may have lost since his prime years is compensated forwith conviction and command.

A pitcher can have too many pitches as well as too few.

Still, if Ohtani is a good pitcher, and Ohtani's bat actually is an asset for the Angels when he's in the lineup, then oh man, this dude is going to create arguments about the Most Valuable Player award that I'm actually going to be invested in, because they're going to be philosophical and annoying as hell.

Another one of the best sights in baseball is a pitcher who can throw a slider as fast as some other pitchers throw a fastball.

thinks that Funkhouser, and Norris too, seem injury prone and might be better suited to working as relief pitchers?

If there was ever a pitcher to make a team want to deal its best prospects, as well as a player or two off its 25 - man roster, Quintana is it.

On Monday Roger Craig was as good a pitcher as Early Wynn and when he needed relief there was Larry Sherry.

All those years toiling on the mound, peering down the long alley toward the plate at those constant disturbers of his sense of well - being settling into their stances and flicking their bats — and then to look down one day and find Henry Aaron there, the large, peaceful, dark face with the big eyes and the high forehead, and to know that one mistake, one small lapse of concentration, would place the pitcher's name forever in the record books as having thrown the «immortal gopher.»

«Even a pitcher as good as he is.»

Jaret Wright had washed out as an effective pitcher due to shoulder problems in the late - 1990s; but he washed ashore in Atlanta and in 2004 made 32 starts, won 15, and posted a 3.28 ERA — all career - bests.

Pirate Manager Chuck Tanner, stripped now of hope as well as his uniform, sat in his underwear Saturday afternoon talking of pride and heart and the other things the newly defeated talk of, when Phillie Pitcher Jim Kaat popped into Tanner's office carrying two paper cups full of champagne.

Well, it seems that Ohtani, who has made quite a splash in his first couple weeks as an Angels» pitcher and designated hitter, has taken a page from the golf superstars» playbook, or at least some associated with the MLB rookie have.

Over the course of that time he has produced well over 100 college pitchers, a national Gatorade player of the year, two state Gatorade players of the year as well as dozens of regional and all - state pitchers.

During Austin's half of the first inning, each Maroons hitter returned to the dugout with the same verdict: Holguin was «just a good batting - practice pitcher,» as one told his coach, according to the Austin American - Statesman.

He could very well grow out of them as he learns some control on his move up the ladder, as more advanced opponents can sometimes force that education on a pitcher.

He's one of the game's best control pitchers as well as one of the most intelligent.

The rule also has a more «national league» feel in that if you remove the starting pitcher from the game — the DH gets removed as well (unless double - switched into the field).

Most prospect places, I have visited see Adams as a very good relief pitcher, not a starter.

Oh, and I'm much more an optimist than anything else — I think Ausmus is much better than most fans want to believe, I would rather have Miggy and JV retire as the all - time greatest Tigers hitter and pitcher than see them traded for a rebuild, and I always believe this could be the year.

UCLA - bound outfielder and pitcher, Jeremy Ydens, will lead a dynamic offense and solid defensive group that also includes senior infielder Andrew Martinez (UC Santa Barbara - commit) as well as junior infielders Blake Diggle (USC) and R.J. Teijero.

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.

But as with Pittinger, who went 27 - 16 in 1902, a good pitcher can break bad records.

Here, then, are two pitchers who were excellent year after year, who were recognized as such, who pitched better and lasted longer than almost all of their peers, and who did it all when ballparks were lively and hitters were unfathomably large.

In more descriptive ones, parts of the Red Sox rotation have been unlucky (Clay Buchholz), other parts needed to change their game plan to get back on track (Rick Porcello, Wade Miley), some are better suited in relief (Joe Kelly) and Justin Masterson looks like he's either hurt or done as an effective big league pitcher.

Better pitchers than Morris (Kevin Brown, Kevin Appier, David Cone) have fallen off of the ballot already, while better pitchers in the future are scheduled to do so as well (David WBetter pitchers than Morris (Kevin Brown, Kevin Appier, David Cone) have fallen off of the ballot already, while better pitchers in the future are scheduled to do so as well (David Wbetter pitchers in the future are scheduled to do so as well (David Wells).

There hang portraits of former Dodgers Jackie Robinson and Jim Gilliam as well as a photo from 1965 of the rivalry's most notorious flash point, Giants pitcher Juan Marichal's swinging a bat at the head of Los Angeles catcher Johnny Roseboro, with Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax futilely attempting to keep the peace.

Much of this stems from the fact that batters almost always hit better against opposite - sided pitchers, and that there are — naturally, as only about 10 % of people are lefthanded — many more righthanded pitchers than lefties.

A varsity pitcher as well, he has a 91 - mph fastball.

This will make a whole bunch of fans happy, but there is another side to a forced change like this, as well: adjusting to an umpire's specific zone, whether it's a pitcher or a lineup that does it, is part of the strategy of the game.