Sentences with phrase «young pitchers up»

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).

Not exact matches

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.

If the Brewers make it through this gauntlet, though, they'll have the opportunity to speed up their rebuilding timetable and exchange young players or prospects for starting pitchers and relievers.

The pitchers, who have been known to putt around right up until their starts, are staging a more serious competition for the Cy Young Award, even if they prefer not to discuss it.

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?

A coach can teach a young pitcher a lot of things; he can also help an experienced one correct flaws that seem to come up every once in a while no matter how good the pitcher may be.

«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 Mets drafted young pitchers, and they acquired young pitchers, and they developed young pitchers, and at no point did they screw it up.

Lawrie comes up, cheesed off about his night and thinking about a young pitcher having problems throwing fastballs for a strike.

«This is probably the most difficult chore in today's game: bringing up young pitchers.»

They acquired a young, raw pitcher named Ralph Terry from the Yankees, polished him up, and traded him right back to the Yankees.

Alex Cobb is a fine pitcher, much more than Just A Guy, but his signing would force a team to give up a young player in the draft and several millions.

I don't follow other teams close enough to know pitching staffs — I'm not crazy about our pitching trades giving up young arms for older pitchers coming off injury but our new names / faces / arms pitching for the Twins need some time, some fan support, and opportunity to establish their value in our season.

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.

He'll be able to return by the quarter - finals, but meanwhile it's up to the younger pitchers to keep things together until then.