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.
This bittersweet Western blues, directed by Wim Wenders from a script by Sam Shepard, is a minor-key delight.
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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The idiom of this music often moved away from the poignant, seductive minor-key flavor of Balkan, Arabic and Klezmer music.
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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 is joined by Atlanta Braves outfielder Jason Heyward and several minor-leaguers.
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.
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.
Of course the rosters are updated and the new stadiums are ready for action, but any other differences are minor -- and cosmetic -- at best.
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.
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