Sentences with phrase «young hitters»

It would take some serious breakouts from the young hitters in the lineup, possibly around a resurgent Joe Mauer, to contend.

Except the Red Sox have a lineup this year that's different from what they tried last year in one key way: They can be excellent even if the young hitters don't develop right away or break out.

They already had that with Cueto and the young hitters.

When the Rangers dealt for Hamels, it looked like a move for 2016, a trade to get an affordable ace to pair with the returning Darvish, supported by the burgeoning young hitters like Joey Gallo and Odor.

If they come out the other side with still - abysmal starting pitching, just $ 200 million poorer and unable to do anything about it for the next few offseasons, they'll have wasted the golden opportunity their young hitters have given them.

Other than Ian Happ, the young hitters haven't progressed nearly as well as the Cubs had hope, with Kyle Schwarber going back to the minors to tinker with his swing, even.

Dazzling young pitchers seem to pop up with astonishing regularity, and there is even a recent case or two of a good young hitter.

That is totally unrealistic, but there are reasons to believe: Last year, the Mariners had both the youngest hitters (27.1 years old) and the youngest pitchers (26.7) in the league.

The circumstances were downright frightening: A fastball from perhaps the hardest - throwing pitcher in the sport was pulverized by a powerful young hitter.

Not exact matches

There was a distinct lack of talent 2015 - 2017 that can explain those years away, and this season is veeeeery young still, but we're already getting some of the same flashes of the last few years even though we now have talented hitters.

Even if you think Blackmon's 2016 season was a fluke, that would still mean he's roughly the same hitter as Desmond, just a year younger and a lot cheaper.

Level of panic: 3, but that's because I'm wondering what it will be like for a team like the Nationals or Cubs to have time to prepare for a young, overly aggressive hitter like Bellinger.

Now we get to answer the question: What would happen if the smartest hitter alive got to impart his hitting wisdom on an eager, young team?

Just a terrifying collection of young, imposing hitters who might keep getting better.

They might have to face life without their team leader, without chunks of their rotation, without their No. 3 hitter and they'll have to do it in a young, talented, messy NL Central.

The two Youngs haven't been introduced and only met twice in game action, with the hitter going 0 for 6.

Young pitchers in particular tend to stray from the fastball, a habit formed in high school and college where hitters whip 28 - ounce aluminum bats.

A tip for young players: If you want to be a major league catcher, it helps to be a good hitter.

It had been a year worthy of its own time capsule: Martinez had won the All - Star MVP award, smothered the Yankees with the one - hitter, beaten Cleveland with his head and his heart, whipped New York in the League Championship Series and won the Cy Young.

The Reds were close to breaking through with their young group of hitters and pitchers.

Wenger always puts young players in but there will be some big hitters.

The spring may look shortest of all to Whitt, who has to find out what his young pitching staff can do and learn the strengths and weaknesses of NL hitters.

That competitive fire made young Mazzone exactly the kind of pitcher who would drive Mazzone the pitching coach off his rocker — not changing speeds enough, relying on velocity, maxing out, and trying to overpower hitters.

He dominated the hitter - friendly Pacific Coast League, posting a 1.10 ERA with nearly 10 strikeouts per nine — the average PCL pitcher has a 4.36 ERA, and 19 is younger than many of the players the Dodgers will draft in two weeks, never mind a typical Triple - A hurler.

But in his last six years he won 129 games and lost only 47 (with 25 - 5, 26 - 8 and 27 - 9 seasons), gained five straight ERA titles, took the Cy Young Award three of four years and pitched four no - hitters, including a perfect game, in leading the Dodgers to three pennants.

«He's not afraid to challenge hitters, and he has great mound presence for a young kid,» says the scout.

Thanks to a swing change and careful coaching, he's become one of the game's great young power hitters.

The perceived velocity made Young's fastball play up, and he had the command to put baseballs where hitters weren't expecting baseballs.

So Ward sat down and created a colorful cast of baseball losers — a washed - up cad of a catcher named Jake Taylor, a brash young fireballer nicknamed Wild Thing, a voodoo - worshipping cleanup hitter named Pedro Cerrano.

Hitters get less time to see a Chris Young pitch because it's released closer to the plate, and he's carved hitters up since arriving to the Hitters get less time to see a Chris Young pitch because it's released closer to the plate, and he's carved hitters up since arriving to the hitters up since arriving to the majors.

He is a young, talented starter — already perceived as one of the best pitchers in the world — with the fringe benefit that he actually might be a superb hitter, as well.

With a cast of unknowns, an obscure second - time director and a story about two high - school kids who befriend a young woman with terminal leukemia, this microbudget indie is about as far from the obvious Oscar heavy - hitters as we can imagine.

Bringing on young Yale sabermetrician Peter Brand (Paul DePodesta in real life, played here by Jonah Hill) as his assistant GM, Beane quickly recognizes that replacing a titanic hitter like Jason Giambi is impossible, so he sets about finding undervalued players who can make up the loss in numbers.

Over 50 heavy hitters of the interactive entertainment industry have appeared on the show: celebrated Japanese creator of Lumines, 99 Nights, and Rez, Tetsuya Mizuguchi; British game developer legend Peter Molyneux; Sims creator Will Wright; Sony's former Worldwide Studios» president, Phil Harrison; Neil Young, former Vice President of Electronic Arts; the new enfant terrible on the block and mastermind behind cult title Katamari Damacy, Keita Takahashi; the creative mind behind the highly anticipated LittleBigPlanet, Mark Healey; Assassin's Creed producer, Jade Raymond; French visionary David Cage; Guitar Hero and RockBand creator, and Harmonix» CEO, Alex Rigopulos; EA's A & R director, Alan Yu; Crytek's Cevat Yerli; British author and columnist Steven Poole, aka «Trigger Happy»; Japanese music - action game master Masaya Matsuura, and many more.

On view were pre-Columbian sculptures, a sarcophagus, works by heavy hitters like Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and more momento mori works than you could ever dream of.

Over in Victoria Miro's converted furniture factory in the east, heavy hitters like Joan Mitchell, Lynda Benglis, Gillian Ayres and Pat Steir are balanced by daring up and comers like the young Lebanese artist Dala Nasser and her tumbling work in marble dust, latex and trauma blankets.

Salon in Hamburg at the end of last year (both artists are represented, outside of Germany, by Hauser & Wirth)-- registered that distance as a Western - style «showdown», with the elder American big - hitter pitted against the young German upstart.