Ballpark figures

Usage examples of pitchers.

Having realized that he can get most of the best hitters, Billy is now seeing if he can also get the best pitchers, too.

In Double-A, as in the big leagues, a hitter saw the same pitchers more than once.

High school pitchers were so far away from being who they would be when they grew up that you could imagine them becoming almost anything.

The statistics enabled you to find your way past all sorts of sight-based scouting prejudices: the scouting dislike of short right-handed pitchers, for instance, or the scouting distrust of skinny little guys who get on base.

And yet by the middle of the Double-A season, against pitchers with big league stuff, Billy was hitting .

He thinks the best thing to do with pitchers is draft them in bulk, lower down.

From their wish list of twenty they had nabbed, incredibly, thirteen players: four pitchers and nine hitters.

A machine for wearing down opposing pitchers, and getting himself on base.

His ability to wear down first string pitchers gave everyone else more chances to hit against the second string.

What Jeremy did have was a truly phenomenal ability to wear pitchers out, and get himself on base.

More to the point, the pitchers saw you more than once, and invested some energy in trying to exploit what they learned about you.

He began to keep records of his at bats: what pitchers threw him, how he responded.

Hatteberg would go to the video room to study opposing pitchers and himself.

Like writers, pitchers initiated action, and set the tone for their games.

To say all pitchers should pitch like Nolan Ryan was as absurd as insisting that all writers should write like John Updike.