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The Pete Alonso free agent drama could drag past the start of spring training, according to one insider — Andy Martino of SNY — causing the 30-year-old slugger with 226 home runs to watch from home as his fellow big leaguers get their 2025 seasons underway.
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Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
The bigger question remains who will bat behind Soto, who delivered a career-best season last year with a fellow generational slugger, Aaron Judge, in the No. 3 hole.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2025
The Cubs and their new slugger have agreed to a $16.5 million salary for 2025 to avoid arbitration, a source confirmed to the Tribune on Thursday.
—Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
Consider 2009, when the slugger belted 40 home runs and walked a baseball-best 119 times.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
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Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
The bigger question remains who will bat behind Soto, who delivered a career-best season last year with a fellow generational slugger, Aaron Judge, in the No. 3 hole.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2025
The Cubs and their new slugger have agreed to a $16.5 million salary for 2025 to avoid arbitration, a source confirmed to the Tribune on Thursday.
—Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
Consider 2009, when the slugger belted 40 home runs and walked a baseball-best 119 times.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugger
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For example, the boxer who won best of breed for the boxers, now moves onto to compete against all the best of breed winners in the working group.—
Ryan Canfield,
Fox News,
7 Feb. 2025
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There have been transgender men who participated in the Olympics, such as Filipino boxer Hergie Bacyadan.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
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An odd corps of swampy Washington DC pugilists are ready to engage, likely supplemented by political pressure from shipbuilding companies.—
Craig Hooper,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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The 36-year-old Irish martial arts fighter announced his intentions to take on the 29-year-old pugilist Tuesday.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
17 Dec. 2024
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In the next scene, the boy is no longer dressed like a prizefighter, but in street clothes with a teddy bear sticking out of his backpack, embracing his parents.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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Buffalo this year was the prizefighter dropping his gloves, sticking out his chin and daring any of three opponents to land a haymaker.—
Tim Graham,
The Athletic,
7 Jan. 2025
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One year after the Academy bafflingly ignored his work in Sideways, Giamatti finally scored his first Oscar nomination for his purely entertaining performance as boxing manager Joe Gould in Ron Howard’s proudly old-fashioned Depression-era palooka drama.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2024
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Sylvester Stallone's underdog tale about a struggling palooka given one shot at the heavyweight championship is a stirring sports movie with a level of charm and sweetness that dissipated in the rounds (and rounds) of sequels that followed.—
Brian Lowry,
CNN,
25 July 2019
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Lamar brought it all to the Super Bowl where millionaire black athletes compete like gladiators, covering up tensions back home with opposite images of prowess and success.—
Armond White,
National Review,
12 Feb. 2025
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So just like in the gladiator fights in the Colosseum, the tactics can be rough, coarse, brutal and even ugly.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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Vito the pug beat over 1,900 other dogs at the show, which is hosted by the American Kennel Club.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
29 Nov. 2024
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National Vito the pug is the first of his breed to win National Dog Show's top prize The Reynolds' sighting continued the work of Dean Lomax, a paleontologist, who found pieces of the animal's jawbone eight years ago, but had not found more after that.—
Ayana Archie,
NPR,
18 Dec. 2024
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“Slugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugger. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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