Sentences with phrase «young pitchers»
The phrase "young pitchers" refers to baseball players who are new to the sport or at a relatively early stage in their career and specialize in throwing the ball to opposing batters. Full definition
It's unfair to you, and it's unfair to the big - armed, erratic young pitcher.
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It's also worth noting that the reduced velocity got better as he got stronger, as you would expect from a recovering young pitcher.
And they do have a lot of young pitchers in the rotation.
27 HERB SCORE, PITCHER: At 22, the best young pitcher in the game; won 1955 Rookie of Year award with 245 strikeouts, and with added experience could win 25 or more games this year.
And if teams are wrong — if the import business brings more Ariel Prietos than Hideo Nomos — baseball, already suffering from a lost generation of good young pitchers, will continue to look more like the All - Star Game's home - run - hitting contest on a daily basis.
Reflecting new research findings about the risk of injury to pitches who throw the most pitches, the new rules require a fourth day of rest - not required for a pitcher of any age at any pitch count under the old rules - for pitchers throwing 66 pitches or more for younger pitchers (7 to 14) and 76 pitches or more for older pitchers (15 to 18).
«That team lost 102 games, but we had a couple of young pitchers named Ramon Martinez and John Wetteland.»
The Yankees have a stable of young pitchers who could soon make New York a contender.
And because teams are so careful about protecting young pitchers as they come through the minors, you're going to see pitchers who can't work beyond 100 pitches in a game, which means they'll be done after four or five innings.
«You don't see young pitchers come in as starters anymore and surprise you with how good they are,» Cards closer Dennis Eckersley says.
Cole isn't like young pitcher getting first sustained look — he's a finished product.
The fifth - youngest pitcher ever to start a World Series game describing the experience as old hat?
Ranger Manager Whitey Herzog said he had seen too many young pitchers ruined by being asked to do too much too soon.
Some of the hardest - throwing young pitchers now become relievers, such as the Dodgers» Darren Dreifort, the Padres» Trevor Hoffman, the Angels» Troy Percival, the Yankees» Mariano Rivera and the Braves» Mark Wohlers.
Jose Berrios is one of the most exciting young pitchers in baseball.
But the Rockies» young pitchers got hosed.
Two other young pitchers obtained in off - season trades — Don Aase, 23, from Boston, and Chris Knapp, 24, from Chicago — have winning records.
Los Angeles catcher Mike Piazza says, «I notice that you don't see young pitchers being aggressive.
They finally developed a Cy Young pitcher, and then they had to trade him.
Imagine trusting young pitchers.
The Rangers arereally set up to make their move in 2010, when those gifted young pitchers willbe ready and Andrus will be established at shortstop, but it has been 10 yearsor so since Texas has contended, and nobody wants to wait any longer.
Except the Rockies have a stable of homegrown young pitchers now.
No, if the Yankees weren't going to buy a David Price or exchange one of their potential - laden young pitchers for a pitcher with even more potential, the only way to pitch better was always to acquire yet another super-reliever.
Avery was an amazing young pitcher.
The origination has cast it's future on the development or a core of great young pitchers, both manager and pitching coach have to be able to bring out the best in them.
If there were someone who was a) low - cost enough, b) around for three or four years, and c) could be the middle - of - the - order slugger they desperately need with Wright's career in jeopardy, then it might make perfect sense to trade one of their brightest young pitchers, like Syndergaard or Steven Matz.
The Atlanta Braves were done two weeks into the season, but their future is exciting because of young pitchers Steve Avery and Kent Mercker.
We don't have any rising young pitcher in AAA needing big league experience to replace Sanchez, and Burrows is clearly not ready.
«If there «sanything I can tell young pitchers,» Clemens says, «it is to understandthat when you get up in the morning and you're taking your shower and you «repitching that night, you know you're probably going to have second and thirdwith one out, and you're going to have to get out of it.
Dazzling young pitchers seem to pop up with astonishing regularity, and there is even a recent case or two of a good young hitter.
The 2009 Tigers finished in second place, and they were hoping to contend the following season, but they traded a 28 - year - old, homegrown All - Star and an established, 25 - year - old All - Star starting pitcher for a center field prospect and an enigmatic young pitcher.
«The three kids we traded to Seattle are quality young pitchers, but if you look at what they've done for the Mariners [a combined 14 - 21 through Sunday], you'll see that if we still had them we would not have won this year.
The Blue Jays didn't just give up a pile of excellent young pitchers to get a rental in Price, they also took on the substantial commitment of Tulowitzki.
Years later, they had a gaggle of young pitchers again, and everything worked out at the same time, in just the right way.
Black also did a great job of managing several young pitchers at Coors Field, which is never an easy task.
ROOKIE HOPES: Not much, except for two good young pitchers up from Syracuse: Jim Owens (according to Roy Hamey, possessor of «best curve in baseball») and Jack Meyer (led International League in strike - outs).
Scheffing obliged that winter, dealing the unhappy young pitcher in a four - player package to California for Jim Fregosi.
The Rockies were a last - place team with Tulowitzki; they can be a last - place team without him, except they'll have more money to spend and more interesting young pitchers.
Few young pitchers can match him in terms of stuff: he has a 92 - 94 MPH fastball that he can bump up to 96 when he needs it.
Continuing to believe that, when young pitchers are tired, throwing curves could still be dangerous, Dr. Andrews cited the story of a 12 - year - old on whom he performed so - called «Tommy John» surgery the day of the interview when, following an outing in which he threwing 30 - something curveballs in a row, the last tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow in two.6
In addition, many baseball people will argue persuasively that three young pitchers named Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder and Barry Zito — drafted according to traditional assessment principles — had much more to do with the A's success than Scott Hatteberg ever did.
The changeup, however, can be fickle, especially for young pitchers, because it requires «feel» that can be elusive — like putting as opposed to whaling away with the driver in golf.
In 2004, Lee was 25 and one of the most erratic young pitchers in baseball, a class that's already filled with erratic pitchers by definition.
I don't see a reason to flip a guy like Nunez, who is 23 and hit 32 home runs unless we get a good young pitcher back.
He was the next Mike Maddux, which is actually a compliment when you consider just how many young pitchers are sucked into the garbage disposal of baseball.
Márquez — great stuff on an exciting young pitcher, but he is still more of a thrower than pitcher — not uncommon at his age.
The Jake Arrieta signing made perfect sense for a three - year guarantee, though they are paying more for his competitiveness than the Cy Young pitcher he used to be.