banjo hitter
noun
baseball
: a batter who lacks power : a weak hitter
The public address system announces each batter with thundering resonance, whether it be Babe Ruth or a banjo hitter just called up from Vancouver.—Martin F. Nolan, Boston Globe, 12 Aug. 1998
banjo-hitting
adjective
… I was a scrawny, banjo-hitting second-baseman.
—King Kaufman, Salon.com, 7 Jan. 2009
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