major league
noun
1
: a league of highest classification in U.S. professional baseball
broadly
: a league of major importance in any of various sports
2
major leaguer
noun
Examples of major league in a Sentence
when you've landed a tenure-track position at that university, you're playing in the major leagues
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Meanwhile, the Mets, who have hired a new bench coach (Kai Correa) and director of major league hitting (Jeff Albert), still have a bunch of openings to address, with Druschel's departure leaving the pitching department almost completely gutted.
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Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
The upcoming baseball offseason promises to be a thrilling one, but until the end of the World Series, there’s not much Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow, or any other major league team’s top baseball operations executive, can do.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
The 24-year-old Venezuelan, with 149 games of major league experience, became the first active player in a century banned for life because of gambling.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Cal Raleigh and Julio Rodríguez each hit a solo home run for the Mariners in the team’s first Game 7 but Seattle failed to reach its first World Series, leaving the heartbroken Mariners as the only major league team without a pennant.
—Ian Harrison, Twin Cities, 21 Oct. 2025
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Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
The upcoming baseball offseason promises to be a thrilling one, but until the end of the World Series, there’s not much Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow, or any other major league team’s top baseball operations executive, can do.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
The 24-year-old Venezuelan, with 149 games of major league experience, became the first active player in a century banned for life because of gambling.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Cal Raleigh and Julio Rodríguez each hit a solo home run for the Mariners in the team’s first Game 7 but Seattle failed to reach its first World Series, leaving the heartbroken Mariners as the only major league team without a pennant.
—Ian Harrison, Twin Cities, 21 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for major league
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“Major league.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/major%20league. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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