Deletion of Smith (baseball)

Comment: fails , which is more important than him ''technically'' passing . Some  is needed here, and plenty of AFD precedent exists to say that barely passing ATHLETE is not enough when you fail GNG, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oscar Otazu, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vyacheslav Seletskiy, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aleksandr Salimov, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrei Semenchuk, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Artyom Dubovsky, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cosmos Munegabe, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marios Antoniades, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Sinclair (footballer born 1991), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fredrik Hesselberg-Meyer (2nd nomination), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matheus Eccard, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roland Szabó (2nd nomination), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metodija Stepanovski and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Linas Klimavičius, amongst others. Yes, those are all soccer-related AFDs, but the point is there - GNG is more important than the SNG
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:ATHLETE||WP:COMMONSENSE)

Comment: The only sources for this subject are stat sites. If you can argue that this is enough to pass , then all minor leaguers should also be considered notable since they are all found on these same exact websites with just as much if not more significant coverage
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: Lets use common sense and do what the football/soccer and ice hockey Wikiproject does in those cases. This obviously fails  and probably  as well as we can't really trust those box scores as it could easily be a pseudonym of a former professional player or many other scenarios. Smith is a very common name back then and his information is impossible to verify. Those two Wikiprojects usually vote to delete articles of players that technically meets  (barely as there is controversy among baseball historians, particularly Bill James, whether the Union Association can be classified as official Major League) but easily fails  and is unlikely to ever meet it, like in this case. Kinston eagle also brings a strong point with his rationale
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:V||WP:ATHLETE||WP:GNG)

Comment: but mention the data in an appropriately aggregated form elsewhere, and '''redirect''' there. Given that we know nothing of this man but his last name and a few statistics about his games, he fails  by light-years. The fact of his existence and his performance probably bears recording in Wikipedia, although not in an article but in a list of some sort
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: I think a little bit of common sense is needed here; we don't even know this person's name so how can we write a |verifiable article about them?  Maybe some of the sourced stats could be merged to a List of unknown MLB players or somesuch where details of players like this could be kept
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V)