Word: hitter
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...Angeles Dodgers. In March, while the rest of baseball balked at the steep demands of Manny Ramirez during an off-season recession, you inked the perplexing power hitter to a two-year, $45 million guaranteed contract. Maybe those other teams suspected what was coming: just two months after Ramirez re-signed with the Dodgers, he received a 50-day suspension for using a banned performance-enhancing substance...
...James Howlett: little howler, or wolf boy - names are destiny in superhero stories. As a man, James, alias Logan, a.k.a. Wolverine, has a gigantic torso and bulging veins; he might be a late-'90s home-run hitter after a visit to BALCO. And since he's Hugh Jackman, he's blessed with the winsome stare of a beautiful boy who mistakenly thinks he's done wrong. Anyway, he looks great for someone who's about 160 years...
...through his senior season. Once in the minors, he had another operation to try and fix the shoulder permanently, but the pain lingered and, while he could hit, his play in the field was severely hindered.“A 5’8 [designated hitter] in the National League is not going to work a whole lot,” Kantrovitz says. “I saw the writing on the wall at that point.”John Mozeliak, the person who signed Kantrovitz for St. Louis and the big league club’s current General Manager...
...last time. Walsh got all eight of his seniors into the game, filling the top six slots of his starting lineup with fourth-years and sending both Cole and Watson to the mound.Douglas, Meehan, Rogers and Stack-Babich—arguably the team’s four best hitters this season—all drove in runs in their final appearances.Jon Roberts, who served as an outfielder and pinch hitter for the Crimson during the year, made the most of his lone at-bat, going yard in the bottom of the fourth with a shot over the left-field wall.And...
...into a fielders choice to bring home O’Neill.Dartmouth took the lead once again in the fourth, but this time, the Crimson scored two runs in the bottom half of the inning to take the lead.With Stack-Babich on first, Walsh sent in Zailskas as a pinch hitter. Making amends for his below-par pitching performance earlier, the junior knocked a big single up the middle. Senior outfielder Matt Rogers was then hit by a pitch to load the bases for Reynolds, who poked a hit through the right side of the infield, bringing home Stack-Babich...