"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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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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He noted that there had still not been an openly gay major leaguer.
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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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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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Every year, for at least a few days, he has been a major leaguer.
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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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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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A third teammate, former major leaguer Carlos Rivero, was also a passenger in the car.
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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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And on Thursday night he became a major leaguer, quicker than anyone might have thought.
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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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He is Andrew Romine — not Kevin Romine, who is Andrew's father and a former major leaguer.
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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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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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"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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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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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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No major leaguer has pitched 100 relief innings in a decade, since the Yankees' Scott Proctor in 19753.
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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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On offense, Gordon, the son of the former major leaguer Tom Gordon, is more of a known quantity.
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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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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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Boston elevated former major-leaguer and current analytics expert Brian Bannister to the coaching staff to work with pitchers.
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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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