It offers the slugging gusto of professional wrestling as its appeal to young males.
Slugging first baseman Carlos Pena jumped to the Cubs from the Rays for only one year.
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Time to put the slugging-it-out in the private briefings and public headlines to one side then?
His performance on the field has fallen off dramatically with five straight years of declining slugging percentages.
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"The consumer is still in there slugging away, " Ken Mayland of ClearView Economics in Ohio told Reuters.
Forty years later, they've assembled a lineup that appears capable of slugging its way to the top again.
Just because you're a slugging star all summer doesn't mean you'll get the job done come the fall.
The suddenly slugging Phillies have six homers in the last two games after hitting four in the first seven.
And with the world's two biggest beer makers slugging it out in China's north-east, margins will get even thinner.
Stop slugging it out and find a more "coherent and rational way forward".
The New York Mets right fielder batted in just 54 runs and had a slugging percentage of .365 in '02.
He had only 61 at bats last season, but finished the year with a .328 average and slugging percentage of .590.
In a few months, the governing Awami League and opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party will be slugging it out in the polls.
Since 2011, Apple and Samsung have been slugging it out across the world's courts in a series of distracting patent battles.
Cincinnati right fielder Austin Kearns had a strong rookie year with a slugging average of .500, but he still makes rookie pay.
He directed his own slugging first baseman, Carlos Pena, to drop more bunts than any other power hitter over the past decade.
But there is a more worrying possibility: that Mr Draghi is slugging it out with deputies trying to keep the gun-closet locked.
Jeter just wrapped up the worst regular season of his illustrious career with career worst marks for average, on-base, slugging and home runs.
Mantle had achieved the highest Wins Above Replacement in the American League (9.8) as well as an On Base Plus Slugging Percentage of 1.035.
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He aimed to bring Westminster-style politics to Japan, with opposing parties competing for power rather than factions slugging it out within the eternal LDP.
Burnett, plus slugging first baseman Mark Texeira--are close to big-money deals.
That put him on pace to finish this season with more home runs (56) and a higher slugging percentage (.744) than any 20-year-old in major-league history.
Baseball rules state a player needs to average 3.1 plate appearances for each of his team's games to become a batting, slugging or on-base percentage champion.
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"It was a real old-fashioned slugging match - we went for it and then they went for it, " said Redknapp, who left Portsmouth for Spurs last weekend.
All three hitters have on-base plus slugging percentages above 1.050.
And so I explained that, given Loretta had hit just 63 homeruns in 11 big league seasons, the chances of him slugging a walk off were slim and none.
General Manager Brian Cashman says that as long as Teixeira is hitting 30 homers, 100 RBI, and putting up a mid-.800s on-base plus slugging percentage, that's more than enough.
One top national Republican official described their job as trying to avoid having "a banana Republican primary" with four Republican candidates slugging it out in a bitter, nasty primary.
Rodriguez will turn 37 in July, yet his on-base plus slugging totals have declined for five straight years, from an otherworldly 1.067 in 2007 to an above-average .823 last season.
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