Talk:Iván Rodríguez

message: Steroid allegations
In 2005, former teammate Jose Canseco,  admitted to using anabolic steroids with Jorge Delgado, Damaso Moreno and Manuel Collado in a tell-all book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big. Canseco also claimed that up to 85% of major league players took steroids, a figure disputed by many in the game. In the book, Canseco specifically identified former teammates Mark McGwire, Jason Giambi, Rafael Palmeiro, Iván Rodríguez, and Juan González as fellow steroid users, and claimed that he injected them. Most of the players named in the book have denied steroid use. Giambi has admitted to steroid use in testimony before a grand jury investigating the BALCO case. On August 1, 2005, Palmeiro was suspended for ten days after testing positive for stanozolol.
On February 2009, after Alex Rodriguez admitted he used steroids from 2001-2003, Ivan Rodriguez said "only God knows" if he is on the list of 104 players who tested positive for steroids during baseball’s 2003 survey. http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/baseball/other_mlb/view.bg?articleid=1152488
That list is part of a government-sealed report detailing 104 major league players (out of 1200 players tested) who tested positive (including Alex Rodriguez) for performance enhancers during a 2003 drug survey. Approved by the players themselves with the promise of anonymity, the survey was conducted by Major League Baseball to see whether a mandatory drug testing program might be necessary.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-rod#Steroid_use
That text has legitimate sources, I don't understand why it's erased.
??? --Mijcofr (talk) 23:18, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The only reference to Pudge that he was mentioned in Canseco's book and the "only God knows" part.  I have no problem with saying that he was mentioned in the book, but the rest of the stuff belongs in a steroids in baseball article, not here, IMO. — X96lee15 (talk) 22:49, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

text: All those players have admitted to using steroids or were named in the Mitchell Report (I think). Pudge was not. I'm not saying he didn't use steroids (he probably did, he got A LOT smaller during one offseason), but per WP:BLP, we have to be careful with "controversial" data on articles about living people. A single sentence saying he was named in Canseco's book is probably ok, but an entire section/paragraph about steroids doesn't belong, IMO. — X96lee15 (talk) 16:21, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Why not this?

message: Until there's an actual citation, the part about him being considered the greatest catcher of all time should not be up. It is weird to have that sentence in quotes when nobody and nothing is being quoted, but outside quotes it's just a false statement - that kind of statement is not really being thrown around for Ivan Rodriguez, considering Johnny Bench and Yogi Berra's places, and the fact that the biggest challenger of them would be Rodriguez's colleague Mike Piazza (who is by many objective standards the greatest hitting catcher of all time). As for fielding, however, Rodriguez does receive lots of consideration for best ever.
:"Until there's an actual citation, the part about him being considered the greatest catcher of all time should not be up"
Even with a citation you've still got nothing concrete. A citation of an opinion is still an opinion, not a fact. Something like "The Sporting News ranked him #1 among catcher" would be ok because you're not saying he is the greatest catcher, just citing a credible souce. Speaking off, this article has been vandalised to death, all the foreign language links and categories have been removed. I'm going to try and find an older version with categories. Mglovesfun 15:38, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Older entries

message: In Rodriguez's career he has caught a perfect game thrown on 7-28-94 by Kenny Rodgers (Texas Rangers now Detroit tigers) and caught the no hitter thrown on 6-12-07 by Justin Verlander (Detroit Tigers) I think that this is important information that should be put into the wiki article.
Does anyone know why Rodriguez is referred to as Pudge by sports announcers, and no other players are referred to by nickname? I mean most, if not all, pro sports players have some kind of locker-room nickname... but for every other player, it's usually the proper first name that is used more often by sports media. Just curious, does anyone have any insight?? 209.105.207.181 22:53, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I often hear sports media refer to other players by nicknames. Some examples would be A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez), Bad Vlad (Vladimir Guerrero), LT (LaDanian Tomlinson), Big Ben (Ben Roethlisberger), Stevie Y (Steve Yzerman). The list goes on and on... Trvsdrlng 02:25, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Phonetics would be my guess. 80.138.206.150 22:13, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Mention of no hitter/perfect games caught

message: This will require a disambiguation page as well as a biography on the artist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.148.74.206 (talk) 02:41, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional Ivan Rodriguez (comic artist)

message: I don't understand what this sentence (in first section) means:
"He ranked fourth in the AL among catchers in batting average, at .260."
His current career batting average is .303 according to the box on the side.  I'll change or delete this, but I wanted to comment first. Wuicker (talk) 00:57, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That sentence is refering to his 1999 season, not his entire career. - Caribbean~H.Q. 01:13, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In 1999, Rodriguez hit .332 (according to ESPN.com). He hit .260 in 1992, but I don't think one could get that from context. 206.190.137.34 (talk) 20:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Career batting average?

message: Should Rodriguez's nationality be added into the lead per MOSBIO? --70.109.223.188 (talk) 20:11, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Nationality in lead

message: He has signed with the Houston Astros. He did an interview with ESPN earlier today saying that he signed with them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.68.58.219 (talk) 21:11, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: He agreed to a contract and is pending a physical which will take place after the WBC - its made pretty clear already in the article and is sourced properly. JustSomeRandomGuy32 (talk) 21:13, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Houston Astros

message: Today he changed it to 77. Here is the link. http://houston.astros.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=121358 SChaos1701 (talk) 00:37, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Current Number

message: Ivan rodriguez was also mvp 2003 nl series.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.50.223.251 (talk) 01:47, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  2003 MVP NL series. 

message: This subject is under discussion at . Please go THERE if you wish to join the discussion. Mercy11 (talk) 15:10, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits by WikiSoldier86 seeking to specify "U.S." after place of birth

message: The last 2 lines in Personal Life after Fox sports,I believe should be deleted. Doesn't make sense that it is there.2601:581:8500:949C:304C:CD3D:3958:6A95 (talk) 23:03, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life section deletion.