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The phrase "a terrible pitcher" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is not skilled at pitching, particularly in sports like baseball.
Example: "Despite his enthusiasm for the game, he turned out to be a terrible pitcher, often walking more batters than he struck out."
Alternatives: "an awful pitcher" or "a poor pitcher."
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He is a terrible pitcher.
He's not a terrible pitcher, but he isn't a guy you necessarily want to invest a lot in".
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By the end of the 2002 season, with two terrible pitchers taking up a crippling amount of salary budget, O'Dowd needed all his creativity just to come up with Plan 3, a most unpleasant one: figuring out how to extricate the club from what he now calls "the debacle of those signings".
Yankees starting pitcher Hiroki Kuroda got off to a terrible start, surrendering three runs on homers by Edwin Encarnacion and Brett Lawrie before he could even record six outs.
It's not a terrible idea for baseball, with its fluctuation in starting pitchers, but three straight on the road is a heavy task for any hockey team.
Bud Norris, a former Astro himself, called the deal "terrible" on Twitter, while Mark Mulder, a former pitcher, wrote that "either [Mr Singleton] doesn't believe in himself to be great or he has a terrible agent who wants the 4% [commission]."Yet despite the predictable jokes about Mr Singleton being high when he signed the contract, the deal is perfectly defensible from his side.
What a terrible, terrible, terrible book it is.
This is a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible idea.
What a terrible, terrible song.
Obviously, it's a terrible, terrible tragedy.
What a terrible night!
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