Sentences with phrase «young pitchers who»

This doesn't mean it'll work next year, but, dammit, how about a round of applause for the young pitchers who put their head into the jaws of Coors Field and took it right back out while everybody in the tent applauded?

The Yankees have a stable of young pitchers who could soon make New York a contender.

The article I read said he pitched way too many innings for a young pitcher who'd had T.J. Surgery.

Not exact matches

The Rangers wanted Joe Ross, a young, above - average starting pitcher in a market devoid of them, for Profar, who might hit just enough to be a shortstop and is just three years away from free agency.

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.

The idea that teams would be interested in a young, cheap pitcher who is under contract for the next few years shouldn't surprise anyone.

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.

During an extra-inning spring training game last year, they used four pitchers younger than 24 who cracked 95 mph on the radar gun: Dreifort, Valdes, Chan Ho Park and Antonio Osuna.

The pitcher, in baseball, is the young officer who pushes the buttons and gets the credit.

Jon Gray should be the ace, and there are younger pitchers like Jeff Hoffman and Kyle Freeland who could develop quicker than expected, but Tylers Anderson and Chatwood have the potential to turn the Rockies into immediate contenders.

Other than Bettis (and maybe Marquez who doesn't seem to get rattled too much), I feel our young starting pitchers tend to lack the mental toughness succeed.

As boys Pedro, Ramon and Jesus, the youngest brother, who is a pitcher in the Red Sox organization, would throw rocks across the ravine toward an abandoned house tucked behind trees and bushes.

The 57 - year - old Mazzone also butted heads with some of his younger pitchers, like Erik Bedard, who grumbled about the throwing program and chafed at Mazzone's direct personal approach.

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.

Grauer's former high school coach (who happened to be a former All - American and national champion at UCLA) unabashedly referred to the young pitcher as «the next Jenny Finch.»

But it took the Yankees coming over the top with a young, cost - controlled pitcher who had already proven his worth in the major leagues to get a trade done.

They had a young pitcher under a reasonable contract who was ultra-desirable last year.

He compared himself unfavorably to Seaver, a young pitcher only slightly older than he, but who was, relatively speaking, «a polished gem.»

A year ago in a similar look - see session at Miller Huggins Field, the Yankees spotted a young pitcher named Bob Grim who came to the majors and won 20 games, along with Rookie - of - the - Year honors.

«Sometimes you have to take chances,» says general manager Dave Dombrowski, who traded three of his best young pitchers to Seattle in» 89, betting that Langston could pitch the Expos to the division title.

Dallas Keuchel is looking a lot more like the ace that won the Cy Young in 2015 than the pitcher who authored the disappointing followup campaign.

Each year the writers determine who the best pitcher in each league is by awarding them the Cy Young award.

Among the celebrities who have taken that step: former pro hockey star Theo Fleury, Cy Young - award - winning baseball pitcher R.A. Dickey; film director Tyler Perry; actors Tom Arnold and Anthony Edwards; and Chester Bennington, lead singer for the rock band Linkin Park, who hanged himself last year.

Gibson is coached through his problems by Dr. Mobley (Paul Giamatti), a sports psychologist who wades through the young pitcher's mind.

Hopper Gibson (a very good Johnny Simmons, «The Stanford Prison Experiment») is a young, hotshot pitcher who has lost his groove.

Author Asa Higuchi tells the story of a young pitcher named Ren Mihashi, who wants to be an ace pitcher but suffers from an incredibly low self - esteem.

His father, a talented athlete who pitched a summer for the Chicago White Sox and went on to become a revered college swimming coach, was nicknamed Cy, after Cy Young, the Hall of Fame pitcher.

Born Edward Parker Twombly Jr., in Lexington, Va., in 1928, the artist got the nickname Cy from his father, who took it for himself out of admiration for the Chicago White Sox pitcher Cy Young.

The visiting team had a young fireball pitcher who could throw the ball 110 miles per hour.