Sentences with phrase «worst pitcher»

If you pro rate his home stats over a year, he was the worst pitcher who started 25 + games.

He may have been a two - time 20 - game winner, but for one year he was the worst pitcher in the game.

There would be close calls and the rare freakish blown save, but if you put the worst pitcher you could think of in that situation, they'll succeed more often than not.

He turned them into a bad pitcher.

The Yankees have too many good hitters and will face too many bad pitchers to not have a good record.

In 2006, the season after the surprisingly effective season described above, Chen was one of the worst pitchers baseball had ever seen.

It would be short - sighted to believe the Nationals will continue to lose 80 % of Edwin Jackson's starts if his ERA remains close to 3 and it would be downright foolish to assume Lincecum will remain one of the worst pitchers in baseball — even if he's not always a good bet.

Also since worse pitchers tend to allow more baserunners, PAs with runners on probably are against worse / more tired pitching than average.

As we enter the second half of the season, many bettors may be wondering who had been the best and worst pitchers to bet thus far.

Not exact matches

They traded away their farm to get a pitcher who's been among baseball's worst.

I think every once in a while you're going to have a bad game, and that's what happened today,» Stony Brook starting pitcher Tyler Johnson said after their loss to UCLA.

All of the above applies to Castro, who is hitting.114 /.250 /.205, which is worse than 29 different starting pitchers in the National League.

As if it's weird to look at a.500 team that lost its most reliable pitcher and think they might get worse.

It's similar to how ERA can become inflated for months because of one bad performance for pitchers.

It's unfathomable to make the pitching staff worse by taking an older, less effective pitcher back.

Barely a year removed from trading away their top two starting pitchers with an eye toward the future, the Diamondbacks led the NL West and were poised to become baseball's latest worst - to - first story.

It just might be the worst defense in baseball, so they'll need every last strikeout their starting pitchers can give them, but they'll also give their pitchers some run support.

Historically it's not good enough to bet on these pitchers, but it's also not bad enough to fade either.

It was bad logic, but the idea of giving extra credit to a Rockies pitcher was in the right spot, at least.

Darvish had one of the worst World Series any single starting pitcher has ever had, losing two out of the Dodgers» four losses in a seven - game series, and doing it so quickly and emphatically that they never had a chance.

«Too bad we can't play,» said Pitcher Dave Wickersham.

They didn't have Justin Verlander for most of the season and they're able to cut out the worst of their pitchers for the postseason, so they're better than that, but still: they have a clear strength that brought them here.

Not bad for a guy who was a 58th - round draft pick out of UCLA six years ago as a pitcher.

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?

A pitcher can look bad, or weak, or lucky, even if he doesn't allow runs.

When they asked the pitcher about the field conditions, he said the infield was the worst he had ever seen.

The Yankees hadrolled out 11 starting pitchers (including five who made their major leaguedebuts) while going 21 - 29, the sixth - worst 50 - game start in the franchise's 107 - year history.

Bad news turned worse for Mets pitcher Zack Wheeler, as discomfort in his elbow turned out to be a torn ulnar collateral ligament.

It's easy to suggest that the meatballs to Matt Adams or Matt Carpenter were bad pitches because every pitcher makes bad pitches, and they were a mix of bad luck and bad timing.

There's someone named Kyle Lobstein in the rotation, and it's working out exactly as you would think for the worst - named pitcher since Grant Balfour and Homer Bailey.

Only one pitcher (Mike Leake) on the team pitched more than 10 innings with an adjusted ERA worse than the league average.

If your pitcher isn't confident because of a pain issue, running him out there again is just so, so bad.

Their starting pitchers are mediocre at best, but the Twins have given their rivals the worst of it with strong hitting and a corps of stingy relievers

There are great pitchers on bad teams all around the league who have.500 or below win / loss ratios.

The Rangers are in the American League, so if the worst thing that happens here is that Calhoun becomes a DH who makes the lives of opposing pitchers terrible, then they've done just fine.

He became the average pitcher we recognize today, alternating the bad with the good, the good with the bad.

He's literally been the worst relieved on the A's this year, and this may be worse than we should expect (career 3.93 xFIP), but he's basically a replacement level pitcher.

He also received just over four runs of support from his offense per nine innings, which was 13th worst out of 73 qualified pitchers.

The place smelled so bad that pitchers didn't want to be taken out of games because they didn't want to go to the clubhouse.

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

The blueprint to follow, ever since the Royals decided shortening the game to make up for their league - average (or worse) starting pitchers was the way to go, was to get as many nigh - unhittable strikeout machines as you could, and then deploy them all one inning at a time until your opponents were weeping while whiffing on pitches they had no chance against.

Still, lefthanded batters hit lefthanded pitchers worse (to a cumulative league average of.242 last season) than righties hit righties -LRB-.254).

The odds are what they are, for just about everyone, and that's not even taking into consideration that he's facing a really good pitcher, so the odds are even worse.

Pitchers need help from their fielders, and the Padres might have the worst defense in baseball.

He has the third - highest ERA of any starter with 50 starts or more since 2014, and the two pitchers with worse ERAs are a non-roster invitee (Kyle Kendrick) and someone who's out of baseball (Tim Lincecum).

Yes, yes, they signed Alex Cobb right before we published, but we're keeping that joke because it said «pitchers,» plural, and also Cobb is bad now because the Orioles wanted to sign him.

Tonight's game provides a unique opportunity to fade the public, bet against one of the worst starting pitchers, and follow the sharp money.

A team may be better than its opponent over the course of a season, but one strong outing from a good pitcher «'' or an abnormally bad outing by one «'' can tilt the scale on any given day.

There was only one error, which did not affect the outcome, but there were several bad plays by both infields, and the pitchers on both sides made far too many mistakes.

«Our No. 1 pitcher has had two bad outings, and some good performances, and I'm not sure which pitcher I am going to get.»