Imagine a baseball team with a veteran All-Star first baseman and a hot 22-year-old who has been tearing it up in Triple-A. They want to get their young prospect some playing time, but don't believe he'll really benefit much from another season facing Triple-A pitching.
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Marlins first baseman-outfielder Logan Morrison will lead a campaign encouraging youngsters to carry out their own charitable projects.
The same is probably true for Victor Martinez, a 31-year-old catcher-first baseman who settled for four years to jump to Detroit from Boston.
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Fill-in first baseman Greg Dobbs made a sprawling play later in the inning to keep Miami ahead.
"He eats more than anybody on Earth, " 285-pound first baseman Adam Dunn said.
"No matter how good I am or how good Kevin Youkilis is, there's not one person that can ever carry a team, " said Teixeira, a two-time All-Star first baseman.
Mr. Murray, a switch-hitting first baseman for the Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers and several other teams, picked up 3, 255 hits and slugged 504 home runs during his 21-year career.
Burnett, plus slugging first baseman Mark Texeira--are close to big-money deals.
Starlin Castro singled, Anthony Rizzo doubled and Alfonso Soriano hit an RBI single to shortstop Ruben Tejada, who ranged behind second and bounced a catchable one-hop throw past first baseman Ike Davis for a throwing error as Rizzo came home.
Startlin Castro singled, Anthony Rizzo doubled and Alfonso Soriano hit an RBI single to shortstop Ruben Tejada, who ranged behind second and bounced a catchable one-hop throw past first baseman Ike Davis for a throwing error as Rizzo came home.
Jacoby Ellsbury had a sharp two-run infield single that first baseman Lyle Overbay, picked up off waivers only a week ago, couldn't handle for his third hit.
Wright appears to have little protection in a strikeout-prone lineup other than first baseman Ike Davis, who recovered from a dreadful start last year to finish with 32 homers and 90 RBIs.
Hughes was one of five Yankees All-Stars on the disabled list with Jeter, third baseman Alex Rodriguez, first baseman Mark Teixeira and outfielder Curtis Granderson, leading to their 1-4 start.
At that point, Davis had struck out in all four of his at-bats, leaving him in a 1-for-42 rut and dropping the first baseman's batting average to .143.
On any all-time all-star baseball team one's first baseman would not be Greenberg but, indubitably, Lou Gehrig.
Minnesota barely made solid contact until first baseman Justin Morneau connected with a two-out home run that banged high off the right-field foul pole.
"That was awesome, " injured first baseman Mark Teixeira said Friday night after the Yankees' 5-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
The pressure is on All-Star shortstop Ian Desmond, second baseman Danny Espinosa and first baseman Adam LaRoche to duplicate their solid seasons from a year ago.
Shuck, but the A's tied it in the bottom half on Adam Rosales' two-out single off Jerome Williams after a costly error by Angels first baseman Albert Pujols.
Boesch lined out to Fielder and the first baseman stepped on the bag before Wells got there, but the first-base umpire signaled he was safe before conferring with the home-plate umpire to fix his mistake.
New York already has five All-Stars on the disabled list: shortstop Derek Jeter, third baseman Alex Rodriguez, first baseman Mark Teixeira, outfielder Curtis Granderson and pitcher Phil Hughes.
The Yankees already have five All-Stars on the disabled list: shortstop Derek Jeter, third baseman Alex Rodriguez, first baseman Mark Teixeira, outfielder Curtis Granderson and pitcher Phil Hughes.
But Collins gave struggling first baseman Ike Davis the night off, and center fielder Collin Cowgill was optioned to Triple-A Las Vegas before the game after hitting .155 with one homer and five RBIs in his previous 46 at-bats.
Wishbook, the size of a Flintstone steak, touched off a months-long chain of daydreams and fantasies about lives lived in different futures: A Ted Williams first baseman's mitt could send your fate branching off in one direction, or so it seemed, a Coleman camp stove or Roman legionnaire's sword along other avenues entirely.
X-rays revealed a nondisplaced fracture of the fifth metacarpal, confirming what his teammates feared, said first baseman Mark Teixeira.
After the game, first baseman Lyle Overbay told reporters he'd been informed he'll be added to the 25-man roster Saturday.
Just nine days shy of the fifth anniversary of that gem, the left-hander retired the first 17 batters before Izturis lined a clean double several feet over the outstretched arm of third baseman Will Middlebrooks that landed just inside the foul line.
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