Sentence examples for holds a player from inspiring English sources

He will make $3.18 million next season and holds a player option for 2014-15.

James holds a player option to come back, and it seems implausible that he would bypass collecting another $6.6 million.

Buck: "I don't know how you quantify it, but he looks at the field and thinks strategically about how a team holds a player at first, or a pitching sequence, and the pitches he would have called.

That chair usually holds a player's towel.

He holds a player option for the second year of the contract.

Nick Young holds a player option for $1.2 million next season that he will almost surely decline, becoming a free agent as well.

With a year to run on Nasri's contract, and with City bidding about $37 million for him, Arsenal cannot hold a player against his will.

At a time when redshirting, or holding a player out of a season, has become commonplace, the decision to place Jamelle Holieway at the most intricate offensive position just months after he left high school was a bold move.

And that is college-football-speak for holding a player out of competition for a year while he spends time in the center of his academic life — no, silly, not the library, the weight room.

Martens contends that the team holding a player's contract has the power to refuse any offers it receives or to say in effect, "make me an offer I can't refuse".

"You can't hold a player like Joe Allen at Swansea when the likes of Liverpool come knocking on the door".