slugger

When Dino did chime in with advice, it was often about controlling the strike zone, being a complete hitter rather than just a slugger, and valuing fundamentals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

It is joining with some of America’s best known sports figures, including the basketball star Tyrese Haliburton, football standouts Dak Prescott and Ja’Marr Chase, the WNBA’s Cameron Brink and baseball slugger Mike Trout.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Garret Anderson, the often misunderstood and always lethal Angels slugger who starred in the 2002 World Series, has died of a heart attack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

Mike Piazza, the slugger expensively coached from boyhood in the modern manner, saw “the silver spoons of his youth smelted into the first of ten consecutive Silver Slugger awards.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

The slugger who’d led me into the darkness was gone, as was the hallway from which I’d come.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

When Ben Rice began his junior year at Dartmouth, he wasn’t thinking about the major-league draft or a future as one of the most fearsome sluggers on the planet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

This season, out of nowhere, he’s turned into one of the game’s top sluggers, hitting .331 with a .915 on-base-plus-slugging percentage entering today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Four years from now, here’s hoping a new crop of American sluggers remember to get a little goofy with it.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2026

Chicago started left-hander reliever Drew Pomeranz as the clubs hoped to subdue sluggers who had combined for a one-series MLB playoff record 21 first-inning runs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2025

Regardless of what he said, I doubt he believed my stories about the sluggers.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson