After six games with Washington in 2011, the Yankees signed him to a minor-league deal.
Hechavarria and Solano both have career minor-league on-base percentages of .314, while Brantly's is .336.
It's better than the alternative of scrambling for free-agent or minor-league replacements, said manager Joe Girardi.
It took him from the Bayside Little League to minor-league outposts near and far.
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If you're wondering about Loria's analysis: Hechavarria, Solano and Brantly have combined for 4, 959 minor-league at-bats.
The company handles concessions and premium hospitality at Yankee Stadium, Cowboys Stadium and a handful of minor-league venues.
More important, these minor-league professional teams (which is what they already are) will have to pay their athletes.
He also masterminded the relocation of a minor-league baseball franchise to Springfield, where his name graces the team's stadium.
It staged a 2011 flash mob that included a funky-chicken dance at a minor-league baseball game in Visalia, Calif.
With prospects, the task of finding the right balance falls to Ron Romanick, the Mets' new minor-league pitching coordinator.
In his 805 career minor-league innings, he allowed just 36 total home runs.
But the Bruins were a college team, so essentially they dominated minor-league basketball.
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There are also a number of secondary issues, like drug testing and the minor-league system, that must be hammered out.
Anyone want to make a case for the San Francisco Seals teams that won minor-league baseball's Pacific Coast League championship from 1943-46?
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And in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the minor-league baseball team was christened the Senators in 1894, and continues with the tradition of the name.
He played 12 years for the minor-league squads of the Cardinals, Pirates and Orioles, and never saw a game in the bigs.
But Gil Patterson, who succeeded him as Oakland's minor-league pitching coordinator in 2008, said Romanick often challenged the conventional wisdom on throwing programs.
The Toronto event held earlier this month in the arena of the Toronto Maple Leafs' minor-league affiliate is the second major annual event for the sport.
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After several back-and-forth exchanges, he finally decided to bring his agency into the conversation to work out the finer details of a minor-league contract.
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In later years, Mr. Carter worked as a baseball broadcaster with the Florida Marlins, now known as the Miami Marlins, and coached minor-league baseball.
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What these owners and players always fail to grasp is that true fans will always watch minor-league or collegiate hockey to get their fix.
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It would be the fourth minor-league baseball franchise in the state.
The surprising element in the movie is that the women, in Nantucket, get some attention from an unexpected source the men on a local minor-league baseball team.
Despite having no background in hockey, he worked his way into a minor-league front office in Hershey and earned Executive of the Year honors in 1997.
On the nightly news, sportscasters gave time to highlights from games of the Chicago Wolves, a minor-league team, almost as much as they did the Blackhawks.
For whatever reason, shootouts are different for him, and really, they have been since the Islanders called him up from their minor-league affiliate in Bridgeport, Conn.
The Indians took Nuno in the 2009 draft's 48th round, an area usually used to find bodies to fill out the bottom levels of the minor-league system.
Investors with a speculative streak would pump money into these super-minor-league teams, hoping they could make the leap into the big time, thereby substantially increasing the value of franchises.
Figueroa, a Miami native and former minor-league player, said his agent advised him to obtain dual citizenship several years ago so he could play for Spain in the European Cup.
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