We know that big-league players can see the seams.

Some of the guys we brought up will be big-league players.

It might give Oakland a better-than-average shot at finding big-league players, or it might not.

"We all know he's going to be a big-league player," Cliburn said.

Once, he said, he took it into his head that he wanted to wear high white socks like the big-league players he saw on television.

"We know Juan is a big-league player," Torre said.

"I just want a little more, just to prove that I was a real, contributing big-league player, and not a fringe guy."

His final game as a big-league player was October 2, 1983.

In a 2002 USA Today survey of 556 big-league players, 44 percent said they felt pressure to take steroids.

Unlike professional basketball and football, Major League Baseball has no steroid policy or testing program for big-league players.