Check out this video that explains the different baseball positions:. A left fielder is a player in the team who plays his position at left field. Left Fielders need to be agile enough to catch line drives hit by opposing players toward them, but they also need to have a strong throwing arm because they are required to throw the ball over long distances in order to get runners out.
A center fielder is a player in the team who plays his position at surprise! Center Fielders are the fastest and most agile of all the outfielders, and they need to be able to catch balls hit toward them quickly in order to get opposing players out. A right fielder is a player in the baseball team who plays his position at right field.
Right Fielders need to have strong throwing arms because they often make throws over long distances toward home plate to get runners out. Right fielders also need quick reflexes and good hands because they make catches on balls hit toward them over a large area of the outfield.
DHs need to be able to hit very well in order to help their team score runs. The Major League Baseball roster is limited to 26 players. However, MLB teams can have as many as 40 players under contract for a single season and they can call up additional players from the minor leagues on an as-needed basis during the regular baseball season.
The league allows clubs to have 26 players from Opening Day through Aug. AA and AAA rosters are allowed to have 28 man roster limits , which is an increase of three players compared to prior years.
High-A and low-A rosters are allowed to have 30 man roster limits, which is an increase of five players. Rookie level and short season A rosters use to be allowed to have 35 player roster limits but now have been limited to 25 players. A college baseball team up until recently D1, D2, and D3 programs were only allowed 35 players on the roster, including 27 players who are receiving financial aid.
Little League Baseball has divisions for children ages These consist of the following:. This includes players on both the man game-day roster as well as those who are inactive, injured, or suspended. Any player on the man roster or day injured list as of p. ET on Aug. A player who has served a doping suspension in a given season is not eligible to compete in the postseason that season.
Each team is allowed a maximum of between 13 and 14 position players for a total of 26 active players , though the breakdown varies from club to club during the year. A team must have at least 25 players on its man roster. These are the players who are able to be called up to the man roster at any given time.
Each player has three option years to be sent to the minors if he is added to the man roster before being waived. A MLB team is not limited to how many pitchers they are allowed to carry. But the vast majority carry up to 13 pitchers on their active roster during the regular season. In baseball, the restricted list is a list of players who are no longer in organized baseball but are not free agents. Phil Hughes R , Missed most of last season because of thoracic outlet syndrome.
Gave up league-high 29 home runs in Hector Santiago L , Acquired from Angels last season. Another starter who gives up lots of home runs. Tyler Duffey R , In 26 starts last season his 6. Trevor May R , Back injury hampered him last season, when he was a reliever. He wants to start. Nick Tepesch R , Had 39 starts for Texas in Ryan Vogelsong R , Grizzled veteran has starts in 12 seasons; , 4.
It would be nice to have quality over quantity but one has to play with the cards they are dealt or the starters they might have. In the American League teams used different starters an average of The Toronto Blue Jays used only seven starters in while the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim sent 15 different starters to the mound. The Twins marched out 11 different pitchers to start their games in The National League teams used different starters in their quest for wins and that comes out to an average of The St.
Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants only required eight starters each while the Atlanta Braves had double that, they needed 16 starters to get through the season.
The Twins have used as many as 13 different starters in and and as few as six starters in but they only played games that year. If you look at the Twins average number of starters used over the years per season you end up with 9. Starting pitchers will be lost due to injury, performance, trades, and personal reasons so the more pitchers the Twins have ready to start big league games the better.
You can see the entire list of players by year that started games for the Minnesota Twins by going here. Now, on to something that shocked me, I had to run the numbers several times to make sure I had it correct. Remember that this list has nothing to do with starters used per season, it just shows that they have used different individuals to start all their games from through the past season.
The number of starters required by MLB teams has grown over the years with different pitchers starting games in to a peak of in Last season different pitchers started games for the 30 teams in MLB. Starting pitchers used in MLB thru Twins Game Notes. Ideally, the no. Managers will often try and match up rotations. Sometimes it's a case of being aggressive, and matching up your no. However, equally a team can benefit from getting rotations out of kilter, throw your no.
Effectively by conceding one major mismatch you may get the advantage in the other two or more games of a series. Each game only counts as one win! Pitch Counts. The modern day focus on "pitch counts" places even more of a premium on "patient hitting".
If a hitter can face 10 pitches before finally getting out, he's done a good job of getting the pitcher towards his pitch count usually a team will allow a pitcher so many pitches, and will remove him, even if he says he feels OK , so even though the hitter hasn't got on base, he's helped the team by shortening the starting pitcher's time on the mound.
Starting pitchers are generally most vulnerable in the first inning whilst they're getting into the rhythm of the game and then towards the end of their stint. One of the key decisions of a manager is when to remove a starting pitcher and bring in a replacement - you don't want to do it whilst he's still throwing well, but you don't want to leave him in too long either.
Judging when he's "starting to toast" but not waiting for him to "burn completely" is critical. The Late Innings Relievers. Most teams have a specialist "closer", who generally only pitches in the ninth inning, when the team has a short lead.
This is the most pressurised pitching position, as the game is on the line and the opposition will use any pinch hitter available and take any risk to try and score a run.
Many teams also have a "setup pitcher" or two who will pitch the eighth inning or if the closer is unavailable, does the closer's job that night. The position is similar in many aspects to the closer, but the pressure isn't quite as great. He's only pitching in the "last-but-one chance saloon"! The closer and setup pitchers generally won't pitch more than one inning per game, so it's quite common that a closer or setup pitcher can pitch in two or three consecutive games before they have to take a day off to rest.
However, managers will generally only use them in close games - you want to have them available in a tight game and not fatigued from the day before. The Middle Relief. In an ideal game the starting pitcher goes seven innings, hands over to the setup man who pitches the eighth, the closer closes out the ninth, and a team goes home victorious.
Actually, in an ideal world the starter pitches so well that he's able to pitch into the eighth or even the ninth a "complete game" and the team's bullpen don't have to pitch at all and get a day's rest.
Ideal games aren't very common. More often than not, the starter won't get as far as the end of the seventh inning, and will come out some time in the sixth, or the seventh. Or he'll simply not be pitching well that night and get pulled from the game very early to give the team some chance of staying in touch in the game.
In all of these circumstances, the teams remaining four or five pitchers have to come in and hold the fort. These are the "middle relief". The normal job of the middle relief is to get from the starting pitching to the setup man and closer, but teams will usually have a "long reliever" within the bullpen.
This is by far the most soul destroying position on the team, as this pitcher will usually only come in when a starter has been chased from a game early, so effectively his manager has given up on winning the game already but someone has to come in and pitch six or seven innings to get them to the end - you don't want to use up the rest of the bullpen on a lost cause. The rest of the middle relief have a high pressured job, and very little glory to be gained.
Normally they'll come in because the starter has just shown that he's starting to get tired often by putting his last couple of hitters on base , so the middle reliever often comes in with runners already on base and in the past, were consequently referred to as "firemen".
A team's weakest pitchers tend to play in middle relief, because the hope is they won't play at all. Quite often the highest scoring innings come in the phase when the starter has gone, but the late-innings relievers haven't been reached yet.
The Bullpen. The middle and late-innings relievers don't sit on the bench with the rest of their team, but normally sit in a warm-up area known as the "bullpen".
It generally takes a pitcher five to ten minutes to get warm, so when the manager thinks he may need a pitcher out of the bullpen, you'll see a telephone call made to the bullpen to get a pitcher warming up. Quite often a pitcher will warm up in the bullpen because the pitcher on the mound is getting into trouble and may need replacing.
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