How To Use Minor league In A Sentence
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Yesterday, we looked at five Cubs' minor leaguers vying for spots on the 40-man roster.
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Today the sales spiel is that variation (a) isn't a safe bet, either, because "minor league" soccer on the West Coast may be ending soon.
New pitch for Paulson: No new stadium, no summer sports at all (Jack Bog's Blog)
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DUGGER: Some areas of Hollenbeck the taggers are the minor league, if you will, the farm team for the gangs.
CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2008
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Minor leaguers are subjected to drug tests, but 40-man roster members are not.
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(link) Incidentally, the St. Paul Saints baseball team being a minor league team benefits from the work Mr. Killebrew started with Castor and Pollux, Artemis and Apollo, and a few other sets of Twins, so for them the fuzzy benignity is enough because they have the bigger organization offering them more protection.
Mrissa: Minicon report, with digressions
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No one on a major league 25-man roster was eligible, but minor leaguers on a 40-man roster were.
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Bellinger, a career minor leaguer, is a pinch-runner who can play anywhere in field.
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A first baseman in the minors, Sexson progressed quickly through the Indians' minor league system.
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Well, let's say that I believe these two players will be, in one year's time, one of the 3 best 1-2 pitching prospect tandems in the minor leagues.
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He chose to scout some of the team's top minor leaguers rather than attend the World Series.
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Few players on the roster have minor league options, so one solution might be a two-for-one trade to open a roster spot.
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But players seep through the cracks, and every season more players make spending a quick buck on a minor leaguer worth every penny.
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In the hundreds of e-mails that arrived with the votes, most people wanted assurance of much lower ticket prices to see minor leaguers.
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We had 24 players - college guys and minor leaguers.
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These thoughts are not reserved solely for the sandlot candidates but the minor league ones as well.
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Kouzmanoff led the minor leagues in slugging percentage last season (.665), earning him the nickname the "Crushin 'Russian.
Fantasy Insider: National League projected lineups
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Because of trades and minor league promotions, all three outfield spots and two middle infield positions are up for grabs.
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This sort of thing seems surreal to Ranch, the Minor League Player of the Year, so you'll have to excuse him if he does not seem excited.
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The owners will declare an impasse this fall or next, then impose a salary cap and invite the prodigals to cross a picket line to join career minor leaguers in what will be a decidedly inferior confederation.
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Someone may have pitched a minor league no-hitter, climbed a dangerous rocky peak or rode a hang-glider thousands of feet to a valley far below.
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The team is tired of looking at minor leaguers who aren't top prospects.
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Shouse, 33, is a longtime minor leaguer who developed a sidearm delivery to use against left-handed hitters last year.
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These aren't necessarily the best prospects at their positions, but you won't find journeymen minor leaguers on the teams, either.
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This is for younger guys on the team and minor leaguers who are on the roster but will be sent down at the first cut.
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Others wanted more attention paid to the minor leagues, school ball, Little League, and the sandlot.
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Unlike some minor league power hitters who struggle with major league curveballs, he can hit breaking pitches as well as fastballs.
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Just about every seat at a minor league game would be VIP level, with waiter service included, at today's major league ballparks.
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It had no contracts with any major sports league and was trying to survive telecasting all types of minor league athletic events.
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The isotopes tried to get the name dukes, but there was a legal battle if i remember correctly over the name. just about everyone wanted the name dukes again. for lower level minor league teams.
Purple Row
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Santana went from minor league bus rides to charter airline flights in one move.
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Last season many young minor leaguers pushed themselves closer to getting their shot to play in the major leagues.
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Not to be confused with his teammate, second-year outfielder Andrew McCutchen, this control pitcher has averaged fewer than two walks per nine innings in compiling a 40-22 minor league record.
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My iracund heart had already acquired a propensity for aggravating its own fault lines—acquired it in my infancy, and developed it like a minor league prospect.
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Three days with nothing but minor league games, exhibitions, and an all-star contest.
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While the transition from nameless minor leaguer to major league leader seemed to happen overnight, he knows it is at least partially a product of his many years of toil.
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I knew what I could do in the minor leagues, I just wanted a chance to prove myself in the majors.
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Prior to his front office career, Bragan played two seasons in the minor leagues, playing for franchises in the Florida State and Carolina leagues.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Some areas of Hollenbeck, the taggers are the minor league, if you will, the farm team for the gangs.
CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2007
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What do youth workers and minor league baseball players have in common?
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He was very excited and animated when he was brought to the new Keyspan Park in Brooklyn to throw out a first ball at the Mets minor league home of the Brooklyn Cyclones.
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These extend to minor league stadiums as well, which shows off some of the non-glamorous locations of other parks, such as those within neighborhoods or other cities.
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We have five shortstops in the minor leagues who are going to be major league players.
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Manuel, a former major league batting coach, would talk hitting with the minor leaguers.
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At least one resident has been suggesting for a few weeks now that it would cheaper to build a new soccer-specific stadium for the Timbers somewhere -- say, at the Expo Center -- and leave the Beavers minor league baseball team in PGE Park, which is still about $28 million in hock from a recent renovation.
Leave the Beavers -- move the Timbers? (Jack Bog's Blog)
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He is currently a pitching instructor for the Tampa Yankees, a minor league team.
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If anyone needed another reason to believe that Oakland's entry into the National Football League is an ongoing script for a future WB sitcom, there's this entry calling for the team to consider acquiring setting the groundwork for an excuse if someone gets hurt and it costs his team the national title unfrozen zamboni ice be the strangest free hand out in minor league hockey history?
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He says he began representing amateurs to help the minor leaguers who get cut before they ever receive a lucrative major-league contract.
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These extend to minor league stadiums as well, which shows off some of the non-glamorous locations of other parks, such as those within neighborhoods or other cities.
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I attribute this dubious behavior to reading the blog work of one anapestic, whose digressiveness charming is pretty much boundless, allowing me to mentally brush off my own as minor league.
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The franchise mode has been expanded with a scouting report and a minor league system that will let hands on managers cultivate talent.
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The son of a carpenter from Heppenheim, Vettel came up through the usual path in Europe: karting, followed by the minor leagues of open-wheel racing.
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That proposal ignores the perils of using minor league basketball to train players.
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Almost half - yes, almost half - of all minor leaguers are now foreign-born.
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Minor leaguers with questionable stuff, almost no matter how good their control is, do not have the luxury of leaning back into a relief role.
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Dr. Kevin Brumund, a neck and throat specialist at the UCSD Moores Cancer Center, told the newspaper there have been no studies linking parotid cancer and chewing tobacco, which is now banned in minor league baseball.
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Recently, they adopted a Double-A minor league franchise called the Portland Sea Dogs of Portland, Maine.
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One spring, Hornsby called all of the minor leaguers together and sat them down on a row of bleachers.
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This at the same time that Mazziotti's very recent client, Lord Paulson III, is arm-twisting the elected officials of that lovely 'burb to build him a new minor league baseball stadium.
It's a small world after all (Jack Bog's Blog)
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The next year, he finished second among all minor league pitchers with 187 strikeouts.
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There still are too many veterans and career minor leaguers around for the team to be in full rebuilding mode.
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Class A baseball looks like Yankee Stadium compared to minor league bobsledding.
U.S. bobsled pilot Mike Kohn had long ride into lead seat
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Hamilton, 31, who is in camp on a minor league contract, allowed one unearned run in five innings in his first two games.
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What's more, almost 50 percent of 5,781 minor leaguers were in the same category.
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In prior years, these guys would litterally be minor leaguers, but now they are facing Barry Bonds and Sosa who are juiced out of their minds on roids.
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Many ideas for promotional giveaways have been born at trade shows, which are geared toward the minor leagues.
