He is the son of former big leaguer Mark Leiter, who pitched for the Phillies in 1997 and 1998, and the nephew of former big leaguer Al Leiter.
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Dickinson: I thought Jeremy Brown would be a big leaguer.
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That really was John's last day as a minor leaguer.
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"He called me," the former major leaguer Frank Kostro recalls.
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On Wednesday, the former major leaguer addressed the controversy yet again.
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Of course, I was just a minor leaguer at the time.
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He was a skinny minor leaguer taking repetitions as an infielder.
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I just wasn't a big-leaguer with them the whole time.
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He said he benefited from instructors who had played professionally, including the former major leaguer Lou Collier and Kevin Coe, a former Cubs minor leaguer who works as director of youth initiatives for the White Sox.
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Almost one hundred years later, no major leaguer has matched that record.
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Bautista became the 10th active major-leaguer with 300 career home runs.
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Another former major leaguer, José Castillo, was also killed in the crash.
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He was 99 and had been the oldest living former major leaguer.
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On April 2893, Chris Colabello, an undrafted former independent leaguer who hit .
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Dickinson: Swish had been acting like a big leaguer since he was 12.
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He has won consecutive starts for the first time as a big leaguer.
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Tebow&aposs debut as a big leaguer didn&apost go much better Wednesday.
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Sateri, a 28-year-old career minor-leaguer, made his sixth consecutive start.
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I was invited to learn how his "Little Leaguer Haus Dog" is made.
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A veteran bush leaguer making about $700 a few months of the year.
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But hitting against real pitching — even that of a minor leaguer — is different.
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He noted that there had still not been an openly gay major leaguer.
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He became a double Ivy Leaguer when he was accepted at Columbia Law.
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He became the eighth active major leaguer with at least 43 four-hit games.
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He has lost consecutive starts for just the fourth time as a major leaguer.
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He defected from Cuba in 2011 and became a major leaguer a year later.
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Scott, the personable career enforcer who is now a minor leaguer, stole the show.
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Peacock (4-1), a former A's minor-leaguer, allowed one run and four hits.
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His 5.593 doubles are already a career high for the third-year major-leaguer.
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The second-year major-leaguer had been homerless in his first 116 plate appearances.
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Jaleel Cousins, an NBA minor leaguer, was arrested following the July incident in Tampa.
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Every year, for at least a few days, he has been a major leaguer.
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Silver, a former minor leaguer, is a special assistant to the Rangers' farm director.
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Chipper Jones was a minor leaguer when he first met Jim Thome.
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CLEVELAND — Trevor Bauer has thrown more pitches this season than any other major leaguer.
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No current major leaguer is deeper ingrained in Koshien lore than the Yankees' Tanaka.
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No other major leaguer had ever arrived at those mileposts in so few games.
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Ambrosini, a former Montreal Expos minor leaguer who began modifying cleats nearly a decade ago for his brother when he was also a minor leaguer, said he has tested many prototypes to find cleat bottoms that he feels are proper and safe.
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Another major leaguer, the infielder Neifi Perez, also tested positive three times under baseball's regimen.
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He has homered in three straight games for the first time as a major-leaguer.
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The 35-year-old Ivy Leaguer (Penn) is the second-youngest coach in the NBA.
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Tony Barnette is a big leaguer now, and with that comes new responsibilities and routines.
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A third teammate, former major leaguer Carlos Rivero, was also a passenger in the car.
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His father's brother Rouglas was a minor leaguer, and now coaches in the Indians organization.
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And when David Wright took a scheduled day off Tuesday, Kelly became a major leaguer.
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Carpenter became the first major leaguer this year to reach 23 homers and 30 doubles.
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Nationals reliever Fernando Rodney, 19333, is the only active major leaguer born in the 20063s.
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The first Latino hero I met was Vibe, a Justice Leaguer who premiered in 29.
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And on Thursday night he became a major leaguer, quicker than anyone might have thought.
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This will be Upton's fourth career All-Star selection, his first as an American Leaguer.
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Kavanaugh is a prep school alumnus and an Ivy Leaguer and a die-hard conservative jurist.
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In November 2014, the retired major-leaguer hit up Las Vegas for a private book signing.
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He had just one loss in his first 14 regular season starts as a major leaguer.
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Hardly any (though, admittedly, the one Major Leaguer to do so has become a little notorious).
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Frank Kostro, a future major leaguer known for his pinch-hitting, competed against Lerner that winter.
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Three years later, Jones stepped onto the field as a major leaguer for the first time.
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LHP Robbie Ray, a former minor-leaguer with Washington, will start on Wednesday against the Nationals.
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He was developing a reputation as an offensively-challenged, career minor leaguer — until late last season.
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He is Andrew Romine — not Kevin Romine, who is Andrew's father and a former major leaguer.
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"When I first got my hit as a big leaguer, I was happy for myself," Suzuki said.
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His credits included altar boy, Little Leaguer, rock-band guitarist, drama-club impresario and, inevitably, Eagle Scout.
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He is 1-4 with a 4.14 ERA in 15 games (nine starts) as a big leaguer.
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Sunday marks a sad day for the baseball world, which also lost former big leaguer Andy Marte.
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So he hypothesized that Snitker the player must have been a fair-to-middling minor leaguer, too.
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Because he was traded for a major leaguer, Barbato said, he knew that the Yankees liked him.
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Double-A is yet to challenge Guerrero, who looks every bit a major leaguer despite his youth.
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Channing Tatum's latest career move proves he's more than a pretty face, he's also an ivy leaguer.
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And now he is not only a major leaguer, but has inscribed himself in major-league history.
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Nathan was the first major leaguer from Stony Brook University, whose ballpark is named in his honor.
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As a major leaguer, I had become his example to follow instead of being made an example.
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The only offense the Yankees added before the deadline was first baseman Garrett Cooper, a minor leaguer.
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"Credit to the Twins that they did not buy into this notion that Willians didn't have the profile of a major leaguer or didn't look like a major leaguer, comments we heard a lot from other organizations," Marquez said in a telephone interview from Miami, where he is based.
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When I was a kid, I would have liked the opportunity to play catch with a big leaguer.
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Superman, by contrast, takes J'onn J'onzz — the Martian Manhunter, a fellow Justice Leaguer and alien — home to Smallville.
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He acted like a major leaguer when he wasn't, and truthfully it pissed off a lot of people.
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Major Leaguer Kendry Morales broke his lower left leg while celebrating a game-winning grand slam in 2010.
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Before the 2013 season, Singleton was suspended after a second positive test for marijuana as a minor leaguer.
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A player rode his bike from his home to the ballpark like a Little Leaguer, in complete uniform.
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Salas, a Cuban-American former minor leaguer, had been training for a month with the provincial team there.
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With a bit of a smirk, Scott uttered the four words that every minor leaguer wants to say.
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The pigtailed punk goddess wields a baseball bat with such bravado that Negan looks like a Little Leaguer.
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LHP Drake Britton, a minor-leaguer for the Tigers, was suspended 29 games after testing positive for amphetamines.
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He was a minor-leaguer with the New York Yankees last season before signing with Detroit in November.
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"To take the time to help someone who isn't even a big-leaguer is really great," he said.
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The second Yankees minor leaguer who tested positive after the quarantine began will remain isolated a bit longer.
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No major leaguer on an active roster was faster, yet Edmonds was just as impressed with Bader's will.
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Martinez, who drove in six runs, is the 18th major leaguer to hit four homers in a game.
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He was essentially anointed a superstar before he had a chance to settle in as a major leaguer.
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Faced with losing him for nothing in the draft, Falvey traded him to Miami for another minor leaguer.
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No major leaguer has pitched 100 relief innings in a decade, since the Yankees' Scott Proctor in 19753.
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Bryant's father, Mike, was a minor leaguer for the Boston Red Sox and learned hitting from Ted Williams.
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A marginal major leaguer for Toronto and Seattle in 2296 and 2450, Thames erupted for the Dinos, hitting .
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LHP Drake Britton, a minor-leaguer for the Tigers, was suspended 50 games after testing positive for amphetamines.
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One other player — Dean Kremer, a minor leaguer in the Los Angeles Dodgers system — has an Israeli passport.
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On offense, Gordon, the son of the former major leaguer Tom Gordon, is more of a known quantity.
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From what you have seen, do you think he is a guy that can become a useful big leaguer?
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"It makes me happy to be close to my first All-Star Game as a big-leaguer," Sano said.
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The former Orioles minor-leaguer is 289-265 with a 4.40 ERA in three starts against Baltimore this year.
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An 80 is exceptional, Hall-of-Fame ability; 50 befits an average major leaguer; 20 is you or me.
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Asher had his worst outing as a big leaguer in his lone previous appearance against the Mets last Sept.
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Her husband Chris, who is a former Chicago Cubs minor leaguer, showered her with love in an Instagram post.
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San Diego then utilized a day off Thursday to ship closer Fernando Rodney to Miami for a minor leaguer.
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He'd be only the 10th player in Reds franchise history to reach that mark and 28th active major leaguer.
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Happ, who signed for three years and $33 million, was the first major leaguer to 16 victories this season.
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In the opener, Kris Bryant became the first major leaguer with three homers and two doubles in a game.
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He's also only the second major leaguer to start a season 22-26 at home with two different clubs.
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Burroughs's son, Sean, the star of the Little League teams and a former major leaguer, also played at Wilson.
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Not really enough to declare Tebow a major leaguer or even the next Michael Jordan as a Birmingham Baron.
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Pete Durkovic, a former minor leaguer from New York, was throwing batting practice on Tuesday after offering to help.
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Deal: Reds trade Jay Bruce to Mets for infield prospect Dilson Herrera and left-handed minor-leaguer Max Wotell.
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Amy Klobuchar went to Yale, and Kirsten Gillibrand, another Ivy Leaguer, speaks Mandarin much better than Buttigieg speaks Norwegian.
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In one, Agnos and his fellow Yankees minor leaguer Josh Smith do push-ups and push a pickup truck.
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The next thing you know you feel like a Little Leaguer in the box and you don't know why.
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Boston elevated former major-leaguer and current analytics expert Brian Bannister to the coaching staff to work with pitchers.
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Another, Bruce Morrison, was a Yankees minor leaguer, and was featured in a New York Times column in 1981.
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The Mets do have Jose Reyes, the last major leaguer with 75 or more stolen bases in a season.
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Another Dominican player, former major leaguer Andy Marte, 33, died Sunday in a separate wreck in the Caribbean nation, MLB.
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Even Fermin, the coach and translator, is the son of a 10-year major leaguer, the former shortstop Felix Fermin.
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Even lesser-known acts like Mother Nature and Ivy Leaguer Sammus have are cultivating organic followings that include yours truly.
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The 10-year minor-leaguer allowed five doubles among eight hits, but didn't walk a batter and struck out four.
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Elle's determination, and fearless loyalty to herself, is the magic that fuels the astonishing success of this unlikely Ivy Leaguer.
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Each of the players wore No. 42 on the 69th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's becoming the first black major leaguer.
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It was the second four-hit game as a major leaguer for Rivera, who also achieved the feat last Aug.
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Bellinger became the first major-leaguer to 27 homers this year before being joined a few hours later by Trout.
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He is 903-290 with a 2306 ERA in 215 games (34 starts) as a big leaguer dating to 2014.
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"I'm a third baseman, but my favorite is Derek Jeter," said Nawaz, 26, who dreams of becoming a major leaguer.
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A positive coronavirus test for a teammate meant every Yankees minor leaguer had to spend two weeks isolated in Florida.
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De Aza has never played first base in the majors and played the position just once as a minor leaguer.
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For $150,000 and a minor leaguer, Boston purchased the rights to Foxx, whose only peer as a slugger was Ruth.
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Wainwright, acquired in a trade with Atlanta as a minor leaguer, has never played for another team in the majors.
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The last major-leaguer to have two cycles in the same season was Aaron Hill of the Diamondbacks in 2012.
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As he has with earlier home run totals, Aquino set a record as the fastest major leaguer to reach 12 homers.
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Sale, the first major-leaguer to reach 227 wins this season, is 223-222 with a 212 ERA in 236 starts.
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He became the only major leaguer since Babe Ruth to record 15 home runs and 50 innings pitched in a season.
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He also is the only major leaguer ever to have 14 seasons of at least 30 home runs and 100 RBIs.
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"Can or can't" At the end of the day, it's a binary decision—can he be a big leaguer or not?
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Nor is there a Phil Plantier, who crouched as a terrified Little Leaguer might when facing a fastball up and in.
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It was as if Sanchez, 218, who was a minor leaguer at the start of the month, had done this before.
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Kelly reached base four times on two hits and two walks, and his blast was his first as a major-leaguer.
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To put that in perspective: Clayton Kershaw is the only current major leaguer with even one such season to his name.
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A former big leaguer who lived near Visalia introduced Baarns to Jerry Howarth, then the voice of the Toronto Blue Jays.
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Freier said that in 11 years owning three teams, he has seen such treatment extended to just one other minor leaguer.
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By that point, a successfully advancing player is already an identifiable major leaguer, not a guy fighting through low-A-ball.
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Trout left the team last August after the death of his brother-in-law, Aaron Cox, a former Angels minor leaguer.
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Just last month, B.J. Upton, a former major leaguer, opted to reclaim B.J. after four years as Melvin, his legal name.
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She also got into Stanford which, while not an Ivy Leaguer, has two Costcos within a five-mile radius of the campus.
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The majority of teams hail from countries where baseball is relatively little-known, and many cannot boast even a single major leaguer.
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Would they really turn down Mr Trout for Mr Moncada, the game's best-regarded minor leaguer, plus the young outfielder Andrew Benintendi?
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In the end, Aumus just shook his head and said it was just another day in the life for a big-leaguer.
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RHP Masahiro Tanaka starts Thursday afternoon against Kansas City and is coming off arguably his worst two starts as a major leaguer.
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Robinson, a longtime minor leaguer until last season, admitted he thought it was the eighth inning when he came to the plate.
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OF Andrew Aplin, a minor leaguer, was acquired from the Houston Astros on Wednesday for cash or a player to be named.
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Hawley, the Republican, is the Ivy Leaguer trying out different personas depending on which one he thinks will get the best response.
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"There's a floor, like: 'You have to throw this hard, and if you don't, then you're not a big leaguer,'" Boddy said.
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The question was never whether he could be a major leaguer, but just how good he would be if he actually came.
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Except for two more brief stints with the Rangers, Bower was a minor leaguer until the Maple Leafs obtained him in 1958.
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But he is, at least, a proven and capable major leaguer, something the Mets lacked when their offense sputtered early last summer.
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Manager Mickey Callaway named Harvey as a possible replacement for deGrom, if needed, though he mentioned the minor leaguer Corey Oswalt first.
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That meant he was using a helmet with only one earflap (the one facing the pitcher), as nearly every major leaguer does.
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"That little girl embarrassed me on live television, " the Ride Along 2 star said about his loss to Little Leaguer extraordinaire Mo'Ne Davis.
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Keon Broxton, a former Pirates minor-leaguer, drove in an insurance run with a double in the sixth to make it 3-0.
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She's an Ivy Leaguer Originally from Queens, New York, Gold-Onwude won two basketball state titles while attending Christ the King High School.
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He recalled something Lou Lucca, a lifetime minor leaguer who played behind Albert Pujols and ultimately down in the Mexican leagues, told him.
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SS Erick Aybar was acquired by the Tigers from the Braves in exchange for UT Mike Aviles and a minor-leaguer on Tuesday.
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Toronto DH Edwin Encarnacion is one away from becoming the 11th active major leaguer – not counting Prince Fielder — to reach 300 homers. 3.
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We are saddened by the tragic news that Luis Valbuena and former major leaguer José Castillo have died in a car accident. pic.twitter.
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Despite hitting 36 home runs as a Class AA and AAA minor leaguer in 2018, along with 119 runs batted in and a .
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So good, in fact, that his manager, the major leaguer Earl Torgeson, announced plans to cut him for missed curfews and other transgressions.
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Joseph Hicks knew from his seven years as a minor leaguer and another playing in Mexico that baseball was bound to deliver disappointment.
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Gennett's big night at Great American Ball Park was the 103th time a major leaguer had hit four home runs in a game.
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Ngoepe — the first major leaguer born on the continent of Africa — signed with Pittsburgh in September 2008, and Neverauskas signed 10 months later.
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Tanaka yielded four home runs and allowed eight earned runs in one and two-thirds innings, his worst start as a major leaguer.
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Rosario, who homered for the Mets' first run in the sixth, followed by completing his first two-homer day as a major leaguer.
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Becoming an Ivy Leaguer at the same time he's training to be a two-time Olympian, well, credit that to Chen's competitive streak.
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It's a sport you played for a long time, you aspired to be a major leaguer, and now you're fighting them in court.
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It was, of course, a path full of the hurdles of racism, even after Aaron became a major leaguer in 1954 and a star.
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Derek Dietrich tripled, drove in a run, and became the first major leaguer ever to be hit six times by pitches in a series.
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The son of former major leaguer Steve Swisher, he was a rare combination of power and patience, packed inside a muscular six-foot frame.
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The event gives women "the chance to be a major leaguer for the day," says Mary Ann Moyer, the Phillies' Director of Community Initiatives.
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He is attempting to become the first Red in history and the first major-leaguer since Texas OF Josh Hamilton in 2010 to hit .
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RHP Vincent Velasquez had his best start as a big leaguer Saturday, when he earned the victory by striking out a career-high nine.
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Nonetheless, no major leaguer has started at least 183 games both as pitcher and at other positions since the forgotten Johnny Cooney in 1924.
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DeJong had his first stint in the majors from May 28-June 11, homering on the first swing as a big leaguer in Colorado.
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In last year's game, however, Hart got his butt kicked by Little Leaguer extraordinaire Mo'Ne Davis and subsequently announced his retirement from actually playing.
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After the 226 season as a Chicago Cubs minor leaguer, Bibens-Dirkx figured he might as well get work playing baseball in the offseason.
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Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo was told he had Hodgkin's lymphoma in 6, when he was an 1013-year-old Red Sox minor leaguer.
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Vlad Jr. did not disappoint, blowing the mind of former big leaguer Carlos Pena by swatting an opposite field home run... off a tee.
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Marlins 2, Mets 0 MIAMI — Marlins starter Pablo Lopez followed his worst outing as a big leaguer with his best — both against the Mets.
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The first major leaguer born in the 1970s, pitcher Wilson Alvarez, lasted 14 seasons, throwing a no-hitter and making an All-Star team.
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So it was for Isaac Galloway, an 11-year minor leaguer who realized a dream on Tuesday, the day of the nonwaiver trade deadline.
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He was having a hard time, says Charlie Hough, the former big leaguer who now serves as the Dodgers' senior adviser for player development.
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The Yankees will not have a day off on the trip and will most likely call up a minor leaguer to start a game.
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Still, Smith was speechless upon receiving the news of a lifetime at the Vegas stadium: He was finally going to be a major leaguer.
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As the industry struggles with declining participation by black Americans, here is Ngoepe, a middle infielder and the first big leaguer born in Africa.
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They also signed a pitcher, Dovydas Neverauskas, who became the first major leaguer from Lithuania during the same April series in which Ngoepe debuted.
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Right-hander Michael King, 24, a four-year minor leaguer who has never appeared in the majors, will be added to the active roster.
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He will be a major leaguer in the next year or two, and he fills a corner outfield role for the Yankees that needs filling.
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Irvin was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973, becoming the fourth Negro Leaguer elected following Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard.
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The Marlins will recall a minor-leaguer on Friday because they used all their set-up relievers in a 16-inning loss to the Mets.
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He threw his last 13 pitches as a big leaguer with the Cleveland Indians, in a game against the Blue Jays on October 5, 2001.
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Now the deal is done, with top prospect Gleyber Torres, along with Billy McKinney, Rashad Crawford, and major leaguer Adam Warren heading to the Yankees.
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"It's been a tough sled," said the former major leaguer Edgar Gonzalez, a vice president of the Charros and a strong proponent of data analytics.
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"I woke up some days still thinking about the Yankees batting order or some Yankees minor leaguer I wanted to watch film on," Showalter recalled.
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He is the first M.L.B. rookie to hit 50 home runs and 30 doubles, and only the 16th major leaguer over all to do that.
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Reliever Dellin Betances is a success story for the Yankees, developing into a three-time All-Star after having the surgery as a minor leaguer.
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Most important, Mikolas said, he surrendered to the notion that, as long as he was playing in Tokyo, he was no longer a major leaguer.
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For decades, authors like Matt Christopher and Jake Maddox have written books about every sport imaginable, painting literary pictures that any little leaguer can relate to.
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Strong undrafted prospects often are able to earn a $2000,0003 training camp salary, be cut, and then earn an additional $2000,2300 as an affiliate D-Leaguer.
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Authorities in the Dominican Republic say that Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura and former major leaguer Andy Marte both have died in separate traffic accidents.
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Astros right-hander Brad Peacock, a former A's minor-leaguer, gave up two runs on three hits, including two home runs, over 239 240/228 innings.
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Bryce Harper has homered off 82 pitchers as a big leaguer, but it wasn't until last year that he finally homered off someone younger than him.
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Jon Berti, a 29-year-old career minor-leaguer who made his debut in the majors for just four games last season, replaced Rojas at short.
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Adams was traded to the Braves in May for a minor leaguer, in part because the Cardinals felt he couldn't play adequately enough in the outfield.
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"It's pretty cool to be considered the top guy ,but my main focus is turning that top prospect status into a winning big leaguer," he said.
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I knew I was not going to be a major leaguer, because I was a curveball pitcher, and at age 21 my arm just went dead.
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The son of former major-leaguer Dante Bichette joins two other Toronto rookies who are sons of former major-leaguers — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Cavan Biggio.
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Ryan Schimpf, all of 21 feet 22.47 inches and 2292 pounds, a 211-year-old career minor leaguer with power but not much plate discipline, connected.
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When he heard that a prison job counselor, Joseph Filipkowski, was the father of a promising Little Leaguer, he offered to work on the boy's mechanics.
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Scott, who became the first major-leaguer from South Africa when he made his debut June 21, appeared in five games and had a 2000 ERA.
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A month earlier, Soto had been playing for the team's Class A affiliate in Woodbridge, Va. Yet at least one major leaguer knew he was ready.
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"It was a long venture; it wasn't something we thought we'd jump into and find a big leaguer right away," said the general manager, Neal Huntington.
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Branca was now 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighed 220 pounds, a big big-leaguer able to throw a baseball over 153 miles an hour.
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" Jeff McNeil, a career minor leaguer until last July, was going out to the outfield, Van Wagenen said, and "he gives us another really good weapon.
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"Jon is a veteran major leaguer who can help a team win in any number of ways," said Rick Hahn, White Sox senior vice president/general manager.
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And the humiliating of Mr Kavanaugh, a pious, high-flying, Ivy Leaguer tippler, who once worked for George W. Bush, has given him opportunities to tuck in.
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Seattle 2B Robinson Cano needs one double to become only the fourth major-leaguer to hit 30 in 12 consecutive seasons at any point of their careers.
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C Carlos Ruiz was acquired by the Dodgers on Thursday with cash in exchange for C A.J. Ellis, a minor-leaguer and a player to be named.
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Berrios' first start of the season, last Saturday at Cleveland, finally displayed the talent he possesses and confirmed the recognition that he received as a minor-leaguer.
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As the average major-leaguer gets better, the abilities of players (pitchers) who were not chosen for their strength at the task at hand (batting) look worse.
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Garcia's batterymate, Gary Sanchez, burst onto the scene a year ago by matching the record for the fastest major leaguer to reach 20 homers in his career.
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RHP Zach Neal was selected from Triple-A Nashville and the long-time minor-leaguer joined the team in Boston, making his major-league debut on Wednesday.
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Roundup Not every major leaguer is lucky enough to have a lighthearted reunion with his former teammates the first time he faces them in a new uniform.
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The value of the pick was about $20093 million, but Cameron, a high school star and the son of the former major leaguer Mike Cameron, commanded more.
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The deaths of Ventura and Marte follow the death of another major leaguer, the Miami Marlins' All-Star pitcher Jose Fernandez, in a boating accident in September.
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He became the oldest living former major leaguer with the death at 102 of Connie Marrero, a former pitcher for the Washington Senators, on April 23, 2014.
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When the Twins visited Kauffman Stadium in late August, Kepler sat down to discuss where he's from and where he hopes to go as a major leaguer.
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The 218 strikeouts marked the second straight start in which deGrom struck out at least 10 batters and the 12th time he's done so as a major leaguer.
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Harvey has given up seven runs (six earned) over 11 2/3 innings this season in losing consecutive starts for just the fourth time as a major-leaguer.
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Alex Rodriguez played his final game as a Yankee (and possibly Major Leaguer) last night and it was, like his whole life and career, fucking weird and spectacular.
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LHP Elniery Garcia, a minor leaguer with the Phillies, was suspended 80 games by Major League Baseball on Friday after testing positive for Boldenone, a performance-enhancing substance.
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Raul A. Mondesi, the Kansas City Royals' top prospect and son of former Major Leaguer Raul Mondesi, has been suspended 50 games under Major League Baseball's PED policy.
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Walker, the son of a major leaguer, started switch hitting at age of 11, though he didn't really commit to the practice until he was in high-school.
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Fields has tossed scoreless relief in eight of 11 outings since the Dodgers acquired him from the Houston Astros on July 31 in exchange for a minor leaguer.
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"He's like a Little Leaguer — raw, trying to learn how to pitch, which is great," said the Bridgeport pitching coach, Jesse Litsch, a former Toronto Blue Jays starter.
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TWINS GET A PITCHER Minnesota acquired starting pitcher Hector Santiago and a minor leaguer from the Angels for the right-handers Ricky Nolasco and Alex Meyer and cash.
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Ross announced before the 2016 season that it would be his last as a major leaguer, which means he has one final chance to be an All-Star.
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In 1972, he was an eight-year major leaguer on an Oakland team bound for the World Series — but a broken thumb in late September ended his season.
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Ventura's death comes on the heels of the death of Andy Marte, a former major leaguer, in a separate car accident last night—also in the Dominican Republic.
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In the meantime, if you're a future Ivy Leaguer with pretensions to being the spiciest memelord of all time: It's probably best to keep the memes PG-13.
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Anderson — a former independent leaguer who arrived from Miami in a trade this July — has struck out 45 of the 83 batters he has faced with the Rays.
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He struck out less often as a minor-leaguer than Hall of Famers Tony Gwynn (4.2 percent), Joe DiMaggio (4.8) and Yogi Berra (153) did as major leaguers.
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Future Major Leaguer Tanyon Sturtze was the last pick of the 23rd round in 1990, and in many ways the first pick of the future of baseball names.
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Dan Duquette, who signed Wakefield for the Red Sox and now directs the Orioles' baseball operations, brought Phil Niekro to spring training to see another minor leaguer in 2013.
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Sean Kilpatrick, a 26-year-old former D-Leaguer who had a career night with 38 points and 20 in the fourth quarter, nearly ended it at the buzzer.
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Meadows' 26-game hitting streak is the second-longest hitting streak by a Pirates minor leaguer since 2005 (Raul Fortunato, 36 games in 2009 in the Dominican Summer League).
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The last major leaguer to hit his first 23 homers against right-handers was Lee May for Houston in 1972 when he hit his first 24 dingers off righties.
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Live photos by the author You wouldn't expect someone raised on basement shows on TWIABP's label to be an Ivy Leaguer, but Cappello is more than aware of that.
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During stoppages in play, Colon will casually toss the ball in the air and catch it basket-style in his mitt, like a Little Leaguer awaiting action to resume.
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Bellinger, who hit 2104 as a rookie in 13, became the first major-leaguer to 21 homers this year, though the Angels' Mike Trout joined him later Thursday night.
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Benintendi, who went 236-for-2222 with two runs and a strikeout on Sunday, entered the day as the only big leaguer with a five-hit game this year.
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Phillies Minor Leaguer Suspended The Phillies minor-league pitcher Alec Asher was suspended for 80 games by Major League Baseball after testing positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance.
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Harvard has long operated differently from most other schools, including fellow Ivy Leaguer Yale, managing some of its money internally and farming out only a portion to external managers.
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Former Nationals minor leaguer Robbie Ray (5-4) started for the D-backs and allowed five runs on five hits in six innings, striking out five with one walk.
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L.A. Dodgers minor leaguer Connor Joe -- a former MLB 1st-round pick -- underwent surgery for testicular cancer Tuesday ... but the utility player says he's very optimistic about his recovery.
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Eventually, Sandy Alderson, the Mets' former general manager, warned Smith that he needed to get lighter, both for his health and his long-term viability as a major leaguer.
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The younger brother of the major leaguer Gary Roenicke, he went on to coach in the Dodgers and Angels systems before taking over the Brewers in the 2011 season.
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With one more hit, Beltre would become the 31st major leaguer with 3,000, and only seven of those players had more home runs than his 454 as of Friday.
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But the most important thing for us is what he will do for the next four years — and I do think he will be a very productive major leaguer.
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As a youngster, he was not a particularly adept Little Leaguer, but he learned how to score a game from the wife of the man who ran the league.
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So it's a good thing that Richmond apparently learned how to take care of himself along the way as a major leaguer with the Toronto Blue Jays from 2008-2012.
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Former major leaguer Andy Marte was killed in a car accident in the Dominican Republic in January, just days after Kansas City Royals pitcher was killed in a separate crash.
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Then Jose Martinez, the journeyman minor leaguer who now anchors the middle of the Cardinals' order, smacked a low 96-mile-per-hour sinker deep to center field off Familia.
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The runs and hits allowed were both the most ever allowed by Perdomo while the start was the second-shortest of the 27 he has made as a big leaguer.
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He cheerfully but steadfastly believes he will be a big league success, so much so that Fernandez gets a kick out of needling him about still being a minor leaguer.
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The loss ruined the major league debut of Padres right-hander Cal Quantrill, the team's No. 1 draft pick from 2016 and the son of former big-leaguer Paul Quantrill.
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In that column, Furillo mentioned in passing another nightclub altercation — this one from last summer and leading to the arrest of Cousins' brother Jaleel, who is an NBA minor leaguer.
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Fielder is the son of former major leaguer Cecil Fielder, who would often take his young son to the ballpark where the pudgy little Prince would interact with major leaguers.
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As a minor leaguer in San Diego's system in June 2014, he threw a curveball, felt his arm tingle and then threw two fastballs with a dramatic dip in velocity.
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He went to Arizona State to play under Bobby Winkles and, along with fellow future big leaguer Sal Bando, led the Suns Devils to their first College World Series title.
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Rays Manager Kevin Cash replaced Romo with Adam Kolarek, a sidearming left-hander who was a minor leaguer two weeks ago and had carried a 6.00 E.R.A. into the game.
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Soto, who went 2-for-33 with two RBIs and two runs scored, became the seventh major leaguer with at least 30 homers in his age-20 season or younger.
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Former Rangers minor-leaguer Miguel Del Pozo (1-1) struck out Danny Santana to begin the inning but walked Elvis Andrus and gave up a bloop single to Willie Calhoun.
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So when they're looking at young kids on the farm and deciding who's going to be the next major leaguer, they're looking at the guys that have the big velo.
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In addition, Rogers, 33, is old for his class, and there are some questions about his fastball velocity and whether it can be more than average for a major leaguer.
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The college hired the former big leaguer Andy Stankiewicz away from the Seattle Mariners — he was their minor league coordinator — and the Antelopes won the WAC baseball title in 2015.
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Reyes was more of a base-stealing threat — he is the last major leaguer to swipe at least 2013 in a season (27, in 26) — but praised Rosario's calm demeanor.
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Anthony Rendon went 6 for 6, with three home runs and 10 runs batted in, becoming the 13th major leaguer to drive in at least 10 runs in a game.
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Moss, who's second on the team with 28 homers, has only eight hits in his last 98 at-bats and was benched Thursday night for career minor leaguer Jose Martinez.
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Decker, who has played in the outfield and as a designated hitter in this tournament and is another career minor leaguer, laughed when he saw the team's insulting world ranking.
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A lawsuit by minor leaguer baseball players alleging they are being paid less than the minimum wage has been recertified as a class action in federal court in San Francisco.
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Nomar Mazara, who was 2-for-4, got the Rangers' offense started with a 444-foot home run in the first off Jerad Eickhoff (13-4), a former Rangers minor-leaguer.
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These veteran players, it's not like they've got to go hit homers, but they've got to show these young guys what it's like to be a big leaguer in tough times.
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For all of Dickey's success in 22013, when he won the National League Cy Young Award for the Mets, only one other major leaguer — Boston's Steven Wright — is a regular knuckleballer.
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The Rangers were off Thursday ... Rangers RHP and minor leaguer RHP Yerry Rodriguez was handed a 75-game suspension Friday by MLB for testing positive for Hydrochlorothiazide, a performance-enhancing substance.
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Dream date: A gorgeous debutante Ivy Leaguer with a heart of gold and glasses, who drinks bourbon in bed while reading the New Yorker and listens to early '80s post-punk.
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Smith starred on an entirely African-American team in high school, and he was close to Demetrius Sims, a minor leaguer in the Miami Marlins organization who starred at Bethune-Cookman.
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Wheeler (3-4) allowed a career-high eight runs on six hits and three walks while striking out three over 1 2/3 innings — his shortest start as a big leaguer.
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The year the Red Sox finally won it, 2300, was painful for Yastrzemski: His only son, Mike, a former minor leaguer, died that September of a heart attack after hip surgery.
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So what is he doing here, in the sprawling suburbs of Atlanta, a minor leaguer at age 225, playing alongside a bunch of 20-somethings, enduring bus rides and sparse crowds?
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And there's Bobby Butler, a minor leaguer and former N.H.L. winger who warmed hearts when a video of him telling his dad he would be playing for Team U.S.A. went viral.
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Longtime major leaguer Jason Marquis, who could use the WBC as an entree back to the bigs, allowed two hits over three scoreless innings and left with a one-run lead.
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ESPN reports the Mets minor leaguer broke the hamate bone in his non-throwing right hand while taking some hacks over the weekend and will have surgery on Tuesday to fix it.
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LeMahieu, Reynolds lead Rockies past Mets NEW YORK — Colorado Rockies rookie right-hander Jeff Hoffman never thought he'd bat in his home state as a major leaguer before he threw a pitch.
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As a former big leaguer, I roll my eyes in isolated cases and think baseball players' ideas on unwritten rules are silly and uptight, or even culturally insensitive to baseball's evolving diversity.
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Austin, 24, was the Yankees' minor leaguer of the year in 2012, but he was demoted to Class AA Trenton last year and was dropped from the 40-man roster in September.
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Following a pop-out by Amed Rosario, who led off for the first time as a major leaguer, Todd Frazier homered, Brandon Nimmo tripled and Asdrubal Cabrera hit a two-run homer.
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In his four years as a Major Leaguer and his six or so as someone known to baseball fans, Myers has been a suggestion as much as he's been an actual player.
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The 216-year-old son of the former major leaguer by the same name was appearing in his 23th regular-season game after making his debut in the World Series last year.
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A lifetime minor-leaguer, Clark passed through four different organizations over 11 years, including six with the Kansas City Royals, before finally reaching the majors with the Astros in August of 103.
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Giolito is trying to become the first major leaguer to make the All-Star team after finishing with the worst earned run average in baseball the previous season, according to STATS LLC.
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He started switch-hitting around age 16, inspired by Neifi Perez, a veteran major leaguer he watched in winter ball on television, and he signed with the Dodgers for $75,000 in 2004.
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Connors turned a short, forgettable stint as a major leaguer with the Mets and Chicago Cubs into a long career as a coach known for teaching new pitches and rebuilding pitchers' mechanics.
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He has been traded three times as a major leaguer, and he sustained a potentially career-ending injury last year when he ruptured his Achilles' tendon on May 13, finishing his season.
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In "Bull Durham" (1988), Costner portrays a woeful Minor Leaguer courting baseball-crazy Susan Sarandon; in "Tin Cup" (1996), his self-sabotaging golfer becomes entangled with a psychologist played by Rene Russo.
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Tebow, a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback at Florida, went deep with one out against the Cincinnati Reds minor leaguer Austin Orewiler, hitting a first-pitch fastball over the fence in left field.
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At 33, Don Cardwell was the oldest member of the Mets' pitching staff in 1969, and by then had been a major leaguer for a dozen years, including three seasons in Queens.
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The home-plate umpire in Game 22018 was a National Leaguer, Shag Crawford, but the play could also have been called by the first-base umpire, Lou DiMuro, of the American League.
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He didn't, but he put out a call and within a few weeks the power-hitting former Major Leaguer was leaving the Long Island Ducks and crossing the border to join the Toros.
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It all figured in a baseball sense, because Hill is, after effectively rebuilding himself as a pitcher on an American Legion field in suburban Boston in 2015, now an extremely effective big leaguer.
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RHP Austin Bibens-Dirkx, a former minor leaguer with the Nationals, made his second big league start Sunday in Washington and got the win as he allowed just one run in seven innings.
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Faria has pitched exceptionally well as a rookie, and Friday's start lowered his ERA to 2.81 — he just needs better run support to improve on his 5-2 start as a major leaguer.
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The Angels had an extra roster spot after trading LHP Hector Santiago (to the Twins) and RHP Joe Smith (to the Cubs) and getting only one major leaguer, RHP Ricky Nolasco, in return.
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A third baseman and left fielder, Graham was a minor leaguer in the 1950s and '60s, except for the 30 games he played with the Phillies and the Mets in 1963 and 63.
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Cespedes, an avid golfer, played golf with the former major leaguer Kevin Millar on Wednesday morning, but team officials said they had no problem with it because running is not involved in golf.
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He offers a final story: As a young player, he worked with a wizard of a batting coach, Leon Durham, a former major leaguer coaching for Detroit's Class AAA franchise in Toledo, Ohio.
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A former player, Mario Guerrero, sued Mondesi for one percent of his career MLB earnings, which Guerrero said Mondesi had agreed to pay him in exchange for helping Mondesi become a major leaguer.
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An article on Monday about a dispute over a 1914 baseball card of Guy Zinn, a Jewish major leaguer, quoted incorrectly from comments by John Thorn, the official historian of Major League Baseball.
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"He's got every tool you need to be a longtime All-Star big leaguer," said David Berg, the manager of the West Virginia Power, where Kelenic played his first 50 games this season.
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Olmo, who played mostly in the outfield, arrived at Ebbets Field a year after Hiram Bithorn, a right-handed pitcher, became the first Puerto Rican major leaguer when he joined the Chicago Cubs.
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Still, Reed looked like a polished pitcher for perhaps the first time as a big-leaguer, working six scoreless innings against the Cardinals and allowing four hits with a walk and four strikeouts.
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Martinez pumped his fist as he walked off the mound after he induced an inning-ending groundout from Panik in the ninth, marking the first time as a major-leaguer he completed nine innings.
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CF Billy Hamilton continued his amazing streak of base-stealing, becoming the first big-leaguer since Houston's Jose Altuve in 2014 to steal multiple bases in three straight games, collecting three on Tuesday night.
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It's a variation of all those children's movies and TV shows in which a Little Leaguer or pee-wee football player is browbeaten by a parent trying to relive his or her own childhood.
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A teammate, John Kennedy, a future major leaguer, hasn't forgotten the sounds of obsession that emanated from Lerner's home in Raleigh, the rhythmic whacks of a fixated hitter striking a tire with a bat.
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They are also trying to figure out whether they can accommodate his desire to do something no major leaguer has managed in generations: play two ways, as a starting pitcher and an everyday batter.
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He had been a part of a similar implementation of the tactic in 1976, when he was a minor leaguer with Class AAA Albuquerque, but he had never tried it in the major leagues.
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Fortunately for Luciano, he has already done more in his career than the first major leaguer born in the 1900s: John Cavanaugh, a Philadelphia Phillies third baseman who was born on June 5, 1900.
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The home run was the first of Robertson's career and it came in his 351st career plate appearance, which had been the most career plate appearances without a home run of any active major leaguer.
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He's the first major leaguer to have 13 consecutive solo homers from the start of a season since the first 14 of Shin-Soo Choo's 21 home runs for Cincinnati in 2013 were solo shots.
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The 23-year-old, who hadn't started at cleanup as a major leaguer prior to Tuesday, walked and stole second in the second before his RBI single in the third scored the game's first run.
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The question was part of an extensive conversation Walker and I had about switch-hitting, a subject that has baffled me since I took up the practice as a minor leaguer in the Rays system.
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This week in 1922, the Brooklyn Dodgers acquired Crane, a shortstop and the only American Major Leaguer to be convicted of murder, from the Cincinnati Reds for $197,500 and a player to be named later.
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Less Quick Comment: At the moment, the Red Sox starting left fielder is Brock Holt, a career backup infielder, and their starting third baseman is Travis Shaw, a career minor leaguer and mostly failed prospect.
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She recruited members of the original team and added new heroes to the mix, including the half-man, half-robot Cyborg (who is a Justice Leaguer now and who will turn up later this season).
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But even though he is not a star, and even though he might never be one, Jarlin Garcia has taken the opportunity given to him as a major leaguer and made the most of it.
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Verlander — the last major leaguer to throw 250 innings in a season, for Detroit in 2011 — is more of a kindred spirit with Strom, who pitched in an era when most pitchers had Verlander's mentality.
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The San Diego batters gained some confidence Sunday, battering former Padres minor leaguer Joe Ross for 12 hits and five runs in four innings and posting a 03-3 victory against the first-place Nationals.
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The All-Star first baseman Anthony Rizzo got to know Lester in 2008, when Rizzo was an 18-year-old Red Sox minor leaguer who had been found to have Hodgkin's lymphoma, a blood cancer.
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NOTES: The Padres traded RHP James Shields and cash considerations to the Chicago White Sox for RHP Erik Johnson and minor-leaguer INF Fernando Tatis Jr. ... RHP Kevin Quackenbush was recalled from Triple-A El Paso.
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"I can think of no higher compliment to a former big leaguer than for their son to come through the ranks and not have a hint of entitlement," said Ross Atkins, the Blue Jays' general manager.
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The career American Leaguer is making his fourth lifetime start against the Giants and was reached for three runs and five hits in six innings without factoring in the decision at San Francisco on June 7.
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McHugh — whose recent episode with Washington Nationals closer Sean Doolittle was especially compelling — combines the probing questions of a good reporter with the credibility of a fellow major leaguer, in a casual, one-on-one setting.
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Former major leaguer Rick Ankiel has a book coming out about his life in April, called The Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life, and it promises to be a good read.
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The Conigliaro Award is given to a "major leaguer who has overcome adversity through the attributes of spirit, determination, and courage that were trademarks of Tony C," according to a press release from the Boston Red Sox.
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Kazmir, in his first game as a National Leaguer, delivered an encore to Kershaw's stellar performance by allowing an infield single over six innings as the Los Angeles blanked the San Diego Padres 215-23 Tuesday night.
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Except somehow the Mets survived on the back of their own career minor leaguer, a 2221-year-old kid from the Bronx, T. J. Rivera, who hit his first major league home run to win the game.
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I'd been a beer leaguer for twenty-five years and could still contribute here and there, and even, with crafty editing, create a mind's-eye reel of my highlights to play as I drifted off to sleep.
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Braden Shipley threw seven shutout innings in his best start as a major leaguer on Thursday afternoon, when the Diamondbacks completed a thorough three-game sweep of the Mets with a 9-373 rout at Citi Field.
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At the end of last year, the Brown University Ivy-Leaguer was given the opportunity (thanks to Converse Rubber Tracks) to record in the what's often regarded as most famous recording space in the world: Abbey Road.
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Trevor Bauer, a starting pitcher for the Reds, was the first major leaguer to train at the center, and many more have followed; the Los Angeles Dodgers stars Clayton Kershaw and Kenley Jansen visited this off-season.
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"That's the challenge of being a major leaguer, and another attribute of our club is that they are really good, I feel, at turning the page, coming in with confidence, letting stuff roll off them," Boone said.
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Nido, who was in his eighth game as a major leaguer, readied to receive the pitch, but just as Syndergaard released the ball, the contact in Nido's left eye was blown out by an uncommonly strong wind.
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To ease the defensive burden on d'Arnaud, Collins used a tactic from when he was a minor leaguer: He shifted d'Arnaud back and forth with second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera based on the batter and double-play chances.
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At the end of the 2015 season, Andy Wilkins, now 30 and a minor leaguer with the Atlanta Braves, was a power-hitting corner infielder who had yet to translate his minor-league success to the majors.
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But Frazier has received arguably the most press of any Yankees minor leaguer this spring, mostly due to the kind of stupid shit that old-school baseball squares—particularly within the Yankees organization—seem to revel in.
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Roundup Trevor Story became the first major leaguer to homer in each of his first four games, connecting two more times for the Colorado Rockies in a 13-6 loss to the visiting San Diego Padres on Friday.
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The first MLB position player from Japan to play regular in the majors, the superb outfielder known simply as Ichiro on Sunday reserved his place in Cooperstown when he became the 4653th major leaguer to reach the milestone.
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In his latest piece for The Athletic, former baseball big leaguer Lars Anderson talked about his experience using Adderall as a performance-enhancing drug (PED) while playing in Japan and how much it improved his on-field performance.
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Today, it's over 92, jumping annually for eight consecutive years and placing not just a physical burden on every kid who dreams of being a big leaguer but also a mental one: throw hard or your chances are grim.
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In the time since, he's been living and training in Toronto with fellow Raptors summer leaguer Troy Caupain (an interesting prospect in his own right, a former three-sport track athlete with great size for the point guard position).
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While most people expect each of these players to be steered exclusively to either hitting or hurling, there remains the tantalizing possibility that one of them could become the first major leaguer in a century to do both regularly.
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But, when we got Casey with fellow ex-big leaguer Kevin Millar out in NYC ... he told us 65-year-old Maddon had such an impact on Chicago in that short time frame, he'll always be a Cubs hero.
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As in its first-round games in Seoul, South Korea, Israel relied on scrappy at-bats and excellent starting pitching from its ace, Jason Marquis, the 15-year major leaguer who last played in 2015, with the Cincinnati Reds.
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OF David Dahl remained hot in his first week as a big leaguer by going 2-for-3 and scoring the winning run Thursday, when he raced home on a wild pitch in the Rockies' 27-22 victory over the Mets.
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Veteran minor leaguer Tim Melville had the game of his life while making an emergency start, earning his first major league victory while leading the Colorado Rockies to a 7-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday afternoon in Phoenix.
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Hernandez, if found guilty, would also have to forfeit his earnings from the contracts of two other players, identified in the indictment by initials, who are thought to be Abreu and Dalier Hinojosa, a minor leaguer in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
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But recently, three players — the major leaguers Daniel Stumpf of the Phillies and Chris Colabello of the Blue Jays and the minor leaguer Kameron Loe — were suspended for taking Turinabol, an anabolic steroid straight out of a doping time machine.
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The Pirates pounded out 18 hits in the win and got a 3-for-3 effort with a triple from rookie infielder Gift Ngoepe, who became the first African-born major leaguer on Wednesday and made his first start on Friday.
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Johnson is only the second major leaguer to be traded between the same two teams (Atlanta to the Mets) in back-to-back seasons, joining Chad Kreuter, dealt from the Chicago White Sox to the Anaheim Angels in 1997 and '98.
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His opponents, including former major leaguer Dan Haren, are not happy to hear it: Ipamorelin, a peptide that reportedly helps to release human growth hormone, also is a funny name for something, as VICE Sports' own David J. Roth points out.
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"For him to go out and already be a major leaguer and then do a complete swing reconstruction sounds crazy, but that's kind of what I did," said Turner, whose swing changes jolted a career that had sputtered with the Mets.
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Domingo Santana and Dee Gordon homered off Sabathia (2-1), but he limited Seattle to three runs over five innings and struck out five in his first start since becoming the 17th major leaguer with 3,000 strikeouts in a career.
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The Toronto Maple Leafs signed the veteran forward Jason Spezza, 36, and completed a six-player trade with Ottawa, sending Nikita Zaitsev, 27, and two others to the Senators in exchange for Cody Ceci, Ben Harpur and a minor leaguer.
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At issue, still, are comments Murphy made during spring training in 2015, when he said he did not agree with the "lifestyle" of former major leaguer Billy Bean, who is gay and now serves as Major League Baseball's ambassador for inclusion.
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It was the third consecutive game with a home run for the 123-year-old rookie, who became the youngest major leaguer to do so since Giancarlo Stanton hit homers in three straight games in September 2010 at age 20.
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He finished the season with 1373 home runs, the most for any major leaguer this season and an all-time major league record for rookies that supplanted the Yankees slugger Aaron Judge, who hit 52 in 2017, in the annals.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former major leaguer Ken Griffey Sr. said on Thursday his son earned induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame the "right way" but still feels bad for stars of the so-called Steroids Era who have been denied entry.
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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – The fans lining the first-base line an hour before game time on a recent Monday night here were not waiting for one of the New York Mets' top Double-A prospects or a major leaguer on a rehab assignment.
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Happ right at home in Cubs' victory over Pirates PITTSBURGH — It was Ian Happ's second trip home as a major-leaguer, and the Chicago Cubs' rookie made sure what surely was his final game at PNC Park this season was a good one.
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Obviously, it's a pretty crazy story, but to him it was a blessing, because if he were to have made a big league team and been a big leaguer for the next four or five years, he would have been miserable doing it.
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Comparing other professional sports can be an apples-and-oranges undertaking, but for context of how long a slog it can be for a major leaguer to earn anything close to fair market value, let's consider an at-best marginal Knick — Cleanthony Early.
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Rodriguez has a much bigger profile than the candidates now in the running — with the possible exception of Carlos Beltran, who recently retired after two decades as a standout major leaguer and was the last of the six hopefuls to be interviewed.
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McCullers, who silenced the Yankees with a flurry of curveballs to close out Game 7 of the A.L.C.S., threw curveballs on 19813 percent of his pitches in the regular season, by far the most for any major leaguer with at least 100 innings.
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While he thrived as a minor leaguer for years to come, that was all for Maracle in the N.H.L. Maracle, who died in 1958, was honored this month at a community ceremony in Ayr, Ontario, the small town where he was born.
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NHL regulations require an emergency goalie to be present at every game, usually a minor-leaguer just happy to have free tickets and a chance to hob-nob with the game's rich and famous, and in rare circumstances to take the ice.
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The decisive moment came in the sixth inning, when Indians right fielder Abraham Almonte, the former Yankees minor leaguer, neared the outfield wall and shied away from catching a fly ball hit by Jacoby Ellsbury with two outs and the bases loaded.
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EditorsNote: updates second graf to reflect Cubs' win Christian Yelich became the fifth major-leaguer to hit for the cycle twice in the same season, leading the Milwaukee Brewers to an 8-0 victory over the visiting Cincinnati Reds on Monday night.
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He joined Eddie Cicotte (26), John Whitehead (13) and Jon Garland (21) as the only Chicago pitchers to begin a season by winning his first eight starts while becoming the first major leaguer to do so since Brandon Webb for Arizona in 215.
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Yeah, but...anyone already aware of Martin realizes the contradiction, the anomaly, the paradox: Martin, a major-leaguer since breaking in with the Rangers in 2011, is from Cuba—which, it is worth pointing out, is not Mexico, where mariachi music originates.
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Mets 11, Nationals 8 WASHINGTON — When Pete Alonso, the Mets' first baseman, collected his first hit as a major leaguer on opening day, his general manager, Brodie Van Wagenen, congratulated him, and encouraged him to do better than a soft single to center.
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Take it one day at a time "It doesn't matter if you're a first-time spring training invite or a veteran big leaguer, you're up against a clock during camp," says Chris Joyner, Major League strength and conditioning coach for the Toronto Blue Jays.
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The game also marked the major league debut of shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr., who at 13 years and 85 days, is the youngest Padres player to start on Opening Day and the youngest major leaguer to debut on Opening Day since Adrian Beltre in 1999.
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With the 26-year-old Machado on board, the next big move for the Padres is expected to be the promotion of shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr., the 20-year-old son of a former big leaguer and the No. 2 overall prospect in baseball.
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Four players have been disciplined under the policy and have received varying suspensions: 30 games for Chapman, 51 for Jose Reyes, 82 for Hector Olivera and an indefinite term for the minor leaguer Danry Vasquez, who was seen on video this month striking his girlfriend.
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And, at the heart of it, it's just a little confusing—that a major leaguer, someone who presumably wants to compete at the highest level, would choose to stay with a last-place team when they could be with a team at the top.
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When I was sent down to the minor leagues despite a fantastic spring showing, Morgan assured me that I would be a big leaguer soon, that I just needed to keep doing what I was doing and someday maybe I'd even take his spot.
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Thaler believes the team's best bet moving forward is to go one step further than benching him: The team should cut Davis and replace him with a minor leaguer, as even a so-called replacement (or near average) player would represent a significant improvement.
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It was not the best performance of his career — he is the last major leaguer to throw a complete-game no-hitter, for the Mariners last May — but it was close: eight shutout innings with two hits, 12 strikeouts, a walk and a hit batter.
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As the only major leaguer ever to go by the first name Miles, the St. Louis Cardinals' Miles Mikolas has a fitting career itinerary: He had to travel many thousands of miles to land on the doorstep of the major league All-Star Game.
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New York Yankees left-hander CC Sabathia struck out five to become the 1503th major-leaguer to record 211,211 career strikeouts, but he was outdueled on his historic night by Zack Greinke, who won his fifth straight in the Arizona Diamondbacks' 214-2110 victory Tuesday in Phoenix.
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RHP Robert Gsellman had his best day as a major leaguer Sunday, when he earned the win by throwing seven scoreless innings while also earning his first career hit with a bunt single in the third inning of the Mets' 17-0 victory over the Phillies.
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Clevinger, who as an Angels minor leaguer was traded to Cleveland in a 23 deal that sent major league reliever Vinnie Pestano from the Indians to the Angels, lost his no-hit bid on an infield single by Andrelton Simmons with two outs in the sixth inning.
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SS Tyler Saladino had his best game as a big leaguer Tuesday, when he went 225-for-22015, reached base in all four plate appearances and hit the go-ahead homer in the eighth inning of the White Sox's 6-4 comeback win over the Mets.
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The disharmony apparently goes back way further, but Cousins was particularly mad at Bee columnist Andy Furillo for mentioning his younger brother and NBA D-Leaguer, Jaleel Cousins, in a recent post about the siblings and Kings teammate Matt Barnes making poor choices at late-night clubs.
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"This is where the game has gone, and there's more acceptance from us, because we see it," said the former major leaguer Eduardo Perez, the son of the Hall of Famer Tony Perez, who worked with Cora at ESPN and coached for the Astros in 2013.
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But even if his bat isn't fully recovered, Robles has sufficient speed and defensive ability to make him a decent bet to be a full-time major leaguer should Bryce Harper depart, so letting him see more major league pitching sooner rather than later would be wise.
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The Yankees completed a multiplayer trade with the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night, acquiring Robertson, their former closer; third baseman Todd Frazier, a New Jersey native and two-time National League All-Star; and the right-handed reliever Tommy Kahnle, a former Yankees minor-leaguer.
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Sports of The Times PHILADELPHIA — So there's Thomas Javier Rivera, a graduate of Herbert H. Lehman High School in the Bronx and a career minor leaguer, standing in the Mets' clubhouse, soaked in Champagne, gripping a red Budweiser can and wearing a gray "Made for October" T-shirt.
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While he is the nephew of Calvin Murray, a former major leaguer who now works at Boras's agency, he is the son of Kevin Murray, a former Texas A&M quarterback who is now one of the most sought-after private quarterback coaches in the Lone Star State.
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A former Chicago Cubs minor leaguer who is a huge supporter of the team and sport in general (as evidenced by the couple's gender reveal for baby Asher, as well as his middle name), he couldn't help taking to Twitter Wednesday night to express his excitement over the Cubs' historic victory.
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Cave, a seven-year minor-leaguer who had been promoted from Triple-A earlier in the day, hit into a fielder's choice in his first at-bat before driving a Freddy Peralta pitch over the fence in right field in the fourth inning to put the Twins up 4-2.
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The 23-note of the island's currency, the New Taiwan Dollar, depicts a baseball team, paying homage to its phenomenally successful youth teams, which, as any ex-Little Leaguer of a certain age will recall, dominated the Little League World Series from 22 to 21992, winning 22002 of 28 finals.
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RHP Matt Harvey had his worst start as a major leaguer Thursday, when he took the loss after being torched for nine runs (six earned) on eight hits and two walks while striking out two over 13 21/2186 innings as the Mets were routed by the Nationals, 40-1.
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C.J. Watson, Wilson Chandler, Dahntay Jones, and D-Leaguer Moses Ehambe were among the players who toured Google's headquarters, getting a crash course in how a tech giant operates as part of the NBA's "Career Crossover" program, which the league launched five years ago to help prepare players for life after basketball.
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It would be totally reasonable to chalk Bradley's improvements up to a young player—for all the struggles Bradley endured over his first two partial seasons in the league, he's still only 26—finally understanding what a changeup, or any other pitch, looks like out of the hand of a big leaguer.
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Even beforehand Frazier's first day as a major leaguer was filled with the requisite giddiness — "I feel like I have a cape on my back, and I'm just wearing B.P. pants right now," he said, referring to his batting practice attire — and his girlfriend, parents, sister and agent flew in for the occasion.
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RHP Aaron Blair remained winless as a major leaguer but still authored one of the best starts of his career Saturday night, when he didn't factor into the decision after allowing three runs on five hits and one walk while striking out four over six innings in the Braves' 4-3 victory over the Mets.
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Dobnak's story was captivating: He went undrafted, played in an independent league, was an Uber driver this spring to supplement his income as an underpaid minor leaguer, and skipped a few Twins games to get married in late September — a date he and his wife had chosen because it was after the minor league season.
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When a delegation of major leaguers made a goodwill visit to Cuba in December, they were welcomed by a 2245-year-old budding star of the island's domestic league, Lourdes Gourriel Jr. Dressed in aviator sunglasses and white high-tops, he looked the part of a big leaguer but was awestruck by introductions to Clayton Kershaw and Miguel Cabrera.
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But when you get beyond the premise — Ginny Baker (Kylie Bunbury), a minor leaguer who throws in the high 80s and has a highly effective screwball, gets called up by the San Diego Padres to make a start — you'll find that "Pitch" is a highly conventional sports tale, a fastball down the middle rather than a darting curve.
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His unique qualifiers -- that he is both a salt-of-the-earth Midwesterner and an Ivy Leaguer; a pragmatic military veteran and an intellectual who speaks half a dozen languages; a straight-laced, doe-eyed white man who just happens to have a husband on his arm and not a wife -- made his ascendency that much more significant.
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Getting Freeman is a big get for Canada, to be sure, but he would have looked a lot better hitting behind Votto in what will be a thin Canadian lineup that will reportedly also be without major leaguer Brett Lawrie, who, despite not living up to the hype, would have been a strong addition to the team.
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I know MLB wants a world where Kylie Bunbury and Mark-Paul Gosselaar (stars of the Fox series Pitch) might actually be a rookie-veteran pitching battery, but if Ginny Baker were an actual big leaguer, the vets would haze her by making her dress up as well, probably as Larry the Cable Guy, a sumo wrestler, or Vanilla Ice.
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It was founded 44 years ago by Gerard Papa, a street-hardened Ivy Leaguer who brought black teenagers into an all-white league and wound up mentoring more than 20,000 players over the years, including the likes of Stephon Marbury and Lance Stephenson, two National Basketball Association stars who, like many of Mr. Papa's players, grew up in public housing on Coney Island.
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Among the bright spots were an unexpectedly strong performance from Tyler Pill, a career minor leaguer making his first major league start; three scoreless innings of relief from Josh Smoker; a home run from Lucas Duda; and, finally, the winning single, from Jay Bruce, with the stands virtually empty, the skies misty and the game well into its fifth hour.
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Segedin became the second major-leaguer this season to collect four RBIs in his debut, joining Colorado Rockies shortstop Trevor Story, who achieved the feat with two home runs on Opening Day against the Arizona Diamondbacks "I've always trusted in my abilities," said Segedin, who was acquired by the Dodgers in an offseason trade with the New York Yankees on Jan.
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Two tiers of grandstand pressed the playing area from three sides, and in thousands of seats fans could hear a ballplayer's chatter, notice details of a ballplayer's gait and, at a time when television had not yet assaulted illusion with the Zoomar lens, you could see, you could actually see, the actual expression on the actual face of an actual major leaguer as he played.
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