1. adjective. If you are restless, you are bored, impatient, or dissatisfied, and you want to do something else. By 1982, she was restless and needed a new impetus for her talent. ...a major new initiative to placate the country's restless intellectuals.
One of the most critical roles relievers play is to protect starting pitchers who are closely monitored, held to strict pitch counts and given plenty of rest between games. Reason: their ballooning paychecks, which averaged $4.4 million last year, compared with $3.2 million for the average big-leaguer.
Pitcher Zack Greinke is the highest-paid player in North American team sports, as he will make $26 million this season. But if we consider the length of the Major League Baseball season, things look a lot different. Of the highest-paid players in each of the five major North American sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS), Greinke's per game pay ($160,494) actually ranks last. However, it is at least in the same neighborhood as the NHL's Shea Weber ($170,732) and MLS's Michael Bradley ($176,471).