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.
The average salary of a professional baseball player on one of the 30 Major League teams was $3.4 million per year, as calculated from the 2012 amounts provided by USA Today. These amounts did not include deferred payments or incentive clauses, nor did they include money paid or received in trades for players who have not been released.