Noncontender

When the Red Sox or Yankees are depleted by injuries, they simply pluck a talented substitute off some noncontender. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If its a commuter car does the size not make it a noncontender? ❋ Adam Vaughan (2011)

Kuroda said he heard that Larry Bowa, the Dodgers' former third base coach, said on MLB Network that any player who refused to be traded from a noncontender to a contender should have his mental makeup questioned. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Over the last two years, House watched his team overpay Arenas ($111 million; nobody else could have offered more than $85 million at the time) and Antawn Jamison (a $41 million extension for someone about to reach his mid-30s) in a bizarre attempt to keep together the nucleus of a noncontender. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A noncontender needs to convince its fans every spring, ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm easily seeing Napoli involved in some 3 way deal (since a noncontender probably doesn't have use for a catcher 2 years away from FA) ❋ Nico (2010)

In 1999, after 11 years with a contender, the Seattle Mariners, he asked to be traded to a noncontender, the Cincinnati Reds -- the team his father had played on for over 10 seasons -- so that he could be just a three-hour flight away from his wife and three children in Florida; his dad, he often says, had been very supportive of him when he was growing up and now he wanted to be there for his own kids. ❋ Unknown (2008)