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.
Relief pitchers, on the other end of the spectrum, are the lowest-paid players in the sport, making an average of $2,051,544. Only four relievers get paid more than $10 million. They are: Jonathan Papelbon ($13,000,000), Rafael Soriano ($12,072,658), Brian Wilson ($10,000,000) and Jim Johnson ($10,000,000).