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  2. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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    A short-season minor league in which high-level prospects from all thirty Major League Baseball clubs are organized into six teams on which players have the opportunity to refine and showcase their skills for evaluation by coaches, scouts, and executives. Such teams are referred to as "scout teams" and "taxi squads".

  3. Baseball positioning - Wikipedia

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    Some extreme repositioning known as a shift was used against pull hitters, a strategy that became more prevalent in Major League Baseball since the late-2000s. [1] For example, versus excellent left-handed pull-hitters like Ted Williams, David Ortiz, Joey Gallo and Ryan Howard, teams would move more players to the right side of the field. They ...

  4. Pitching by position players - Wikipedia

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    Sweeney refused and left the team entirely. [2] However, for most of the history of MLB, position players have rarely been called on to pitch. From 1950 through 1999, it happened a total of 574 times, [3] an average of slightly less than 12 times a season, typically late in blowouts. [4]

  5. Baseball positions - Wikipedia

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    In the sport of baseball, each of the nine players on a team is assigned a particular fielding position when it is their turn to play defense. Each position conventionally has an associated number, for use in scorekeeping by the official scorer: 1 (), 2 (), 3 (first baseman), 4 (second baseman), 5 (third baseman), 6 (), 7 (left fielder), 8 (center fielder), and 9 (right fielder). [1]

  6. Comparison of baseball and cricket - Wikipedia

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    Baseball and cricket are the best-known members of a family of related bat-and-ball games.Both have fields that are 400 feet (120 m) or more in diameter between their furthest endpoints, [1] offensive players who can hit a thrown/"bowled" ball out of the field and run between safe areas to score runs (points) at the risk of being gotten out (forced off the field of play by the opposing team ...

  7. Like 'Mr. Baseball' and 'Doc,' a look at iconic nicknames in ...

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    As 'Mr. Baseball' turns 90 and 'Doc' potentially moves in to take over the Bucks, here's a look at the great nicknames in Wisconsin sports history.

  8. Wins above replacement - Wikipedia

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    However, the values are calculated differently for pitchers and position players: position players are evaluated using statistics for fielding, base running, and hitting, while pitchers are evaluated using statistics related to the opposing batters' hits, walks, and strikeouts in FanGraphs' version and runs allowed per 9 innings with a team ...

  9. Make fun of the so-called 'worst college basketball team of ...

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    What has reassured those at FLBC has been the players’ positivity and resilience. Every first-year player on last year’s team came out for the team again this season.