How to Use big league in a Sentence

big league

noun

• Broadway is the big leagues, and for big bucks theatergoers expect professionalism.
• The right-hander hadn’t pitched in a big league game since mid-April.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2022
• That was the last big league season without a Wild Card.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 28 Oct. 2022
• The injury was exactly what big league teams and their fans fear the most about the WBC.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 16 Mar. 2023
• Manuel was a part-time player for six big league seasons with the Twins and Dodgers.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
• That’s a very normal course of events in big league baseball.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• That seems to be an apt description through his first two big league starts.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2022
• Crouse made his big league debut at the end of the season and got some extra work in the Arizona Fall League.
  — Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 1 Aug. 2022
• But 15 days must elapse before he can be restored to the big league roster.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 11 Oct. 2022
• Bruce Bochy was just starting out as a big league manager with the 1995 Padres.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
• The Reds also called back prospect Jared Solomon, who made his big league debut last week.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 12 May 2022
• Kennedy slapped a single through the right side of the infield in the bottom of the fifth inning for his first career big league hit.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 17 June 2022
• Friday, Lawrence Butler, one of the club’s top prospects, made his big league debut.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023
• Martinez will enter his 13th big league season, and the Dodgers hope there is some life left in his bat.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• But for all the potential of that idea for the show, the execution isn’t yet big league-worthy.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2022
• Zack Britton bounced back after pitching in a big league game for the first time in over a year.
  — Kristie Ackert, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2022
• That just doesn’t make sense for a small market team with a flawed big league roster that’s lacking in depth.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 28 July 2022
• Hickey is years from being part of the Sox’ big league catching equation.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
• O’Hoppe hit his first two big league home runs and had eight RBIs — the latter a franchise record for a rookie through the first six games of a season.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• Andy and Adam also cut some of the corn to create a path for visitors to walk through from the movie site diamond to the big league field.
  — Tommy Birch, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2022
• That includes each of their past three first-round draft picks, each officially in big league camp for the first time.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2023
• Pepiot has spent the past several Spring Trainings in camp with the big league team.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 11 May 2022
• Later in the inning, Masataka Yoshida pummeled a two-run shot at the top of the zone for his first big league homer.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
• Joe Maddon has managed for parts of 19 big league seasons.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• Rhule went 11-27 with the Panthers and became the latest college coach to fail while trying to transition to the big league.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2022
• North West just graduated to the Halloween big leagues!
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2023
• The 29-year-old righthander, who has been the Royals closer the past two seasons, is having the best season of his five-year big league career.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 27 July 2022
• Allen will report to the Orioles big league club and could work his way into the starting rotation.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 5 May 2022
• He was expected to enter his third big league campaign as one of the game’s best No. 2 starters behind Burnes.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
• This week the Dodgers called Lamb up, adding him to the big league roster ahead of what Lamb confirmed was an upcoming opt-out in his contract.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024