Sentence examples for but a poor spring from inspiring English sources

The Phillies snapped him up, but a poor spring training spoiled his chances of making the team.

Year on year sales growth was running at 6.9% in April, but a poor summer damaged retail confidence.

But a poor 2000 season with Philadelphia and San Diego humbled Relaford, and he was content to spend this season as a bench player, even though he has hit better than many Mets starters.

The season started well, with Stoke in fourth place at Christmas, but a poor second half of the season saw the club drop to an eventual 12th place.

The Mets heard those words, but because Igarashi had a poor spring, they did not fully believe them until Wednesday night, weeks after the conversation.

Carl Crawford had what might politely be called a poor spring.

Kidney led Ireland to the Grand Slam in 2009 but departed after a poor 2013 Six Nations campaign.

Faded in a poor second half but was the main creator and gets the vote as England's man of the match.

"Down know they had a poor 2016 but they have been working hard and had a decent McKenna Cup," said McGrath who led the Mourne men to their All-Ireland triumphs of 1991 and 1994.

He was forced to regain his Tour card after a poor 2013 season, but became the first Paraguayan to win on the European Tour when he claimed his maiden title at the BMW International Open at Gut Lärchenhof in June.

Why is Chivas such a poor second half team?