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Talk:List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat

message: I found an error in this list.  I had only checked three entries, but one of them, that for Charlton Jimerson, shows that he only had one career home run.  The Baseball Cube  says that he had two, one with Houston in the NL in 2006 and one with Seattle in the AL in 2007. I presume this error is because the list is not updated for "active players," but there have been numerous additions since 2007.-- Komowkwa (talk) 04:05, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Unreliable Data - Data Not Current

message: Is this page truly notable? I took it for granted for a while, but lately I'm wondering. It seems to be a WP:TRIVIAl aspect of their careers and the page doesn't reflect the necessary sourcing to show this is an encyclopedic breakdown of MLB players. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:23, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Both of these sources clearly identify themselves as wikipedia mirrors, and may not be used. Kuru (talk) 15:38, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

text: redacted the omics ref. predatory publisher, not reliable. Jytdog (talk) 19:39, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  just wanted your input.  Would you still be of the opinion that this topic lacks notability and falls more under WP:TRIVIA? (in light of my edit to this list a couple of hours ago, attempting to make this an FL) —Bloom6132 (talk) 22:04, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , I'm not sure, and it should probably be left to an unbiased reviewer to determine. You did good work on the page, and there are lots of sources, but the trouble is that most of them are stats pages and game recaps. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:36, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability? 

message: There's a statement with no inline citation about MLB.com and Gene Stechschulte's first MLB at bat (footnote J right now). This must have been corrected by MLB.com recently. MLB.com game logs (under Batting) show the subject's first AB on April 17, 2001. I just wanted to make sure that the footnote was not referring to some other place on MLB.com. Larry Hockett (Talk) 14:47, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The footnote was actually referring to this article from MLB.com.  It was indeed last updated on July 27, 2020, but still states that Stechschulte's first AB occurred on April 1, 2001. —Bloom6132 (talk) 15:14, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems like a good point to clarify. With this many citations and footnotes, surely we can spare one more line to indicate that it is just one MLB.com article - and not the subject's MLB.com listing - that is incorrect. We should also correct the grammar ("list") in the the footnote. Larry Hockett (Talk) 13:37, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Fixed. —Bloom6132 (talk) 22:20, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stechschulte - first at bat - MLB.com 
Talk:List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their final major league at bat

message: Paul Gillespie is especially noted, along with John Miller, for also hitting a homer in his first atbat. Baseball Alamanac discusses this, as do other sources. However it should be noted somehow in this list that this homer was his final regular season atbat, as he subsequently appeared (and went hitless) in the 1945 World Series. Given that players who did hit their final atbat post season are highlighted here, the other route should be as well. Unless others feel that Gillespie shouldn't be included in this list after all - depends on the criteria, I guess. Echoedmyron (talk) 01:54, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paul Gillespie 
Talk:List of Major League Baseball annual runs batted in leaders

message: A number of citations in this article unnecessarily include the publisher for periodicals and websites that have their own Wikipedia article. This information has no value to anyone wanting to check or track down references. For example, publisher=Washington Post Company for references to The Washington Post, or publisher=MLB Advanced Media for references to MLB.com, only make the article longer - significantly longer when repeated many times - without adding anything useful. Therefore I plan to  upgrade the article's citations to remove all such redundant publisher info, bringing them into line with the recommended use of the cite template (see Template:Citation#Publisher).  I'll also remove redundant 'location' parameters (e.g. work=New York Times|location=New York), as suggested by the template's usage guidelines. Please raise any questions here or on my talk page. Colonies Chris (talk) 20:05, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed removal of redundant publisher information
Talk:Vikalp

message: I am a journalist based in India, and a regular contributor to the Wikipedia, besides running Docuwallahs2. This is an important issue in our part of the world -- related to censorship of films, and it affects documentary films particularly strong. I believe Wikipedia should reflect the diversity of such global concerns. There is a significant movement "on the ground", even if this is not always as visible via cyberspace! -- FN --fredericknoronha 09:43, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Talk:List of Major League Baseball career hit batsmen leaders

message: What is the number following the names of some of the active pitchers?  E.g. "Tim Wakefield (2)"?
Could it be their rank for hit batsmen this season?
Magnabonzo (talk) 16:58, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  number after names? 

message: Why is Lackey considered an active player? ―Buster7 ☎  18:13, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it hasn't been a full season since he last played, and he hasn't officially retired.Taffe316 (talk) 19:38, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Good to know. ―Buster7 ☎  01:55, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  #35 - John Lackey
Talk:List of St. Louis Cardinals team records

message: Why do all the records have 1st-5th place? First (best) is a record. 2nd-5th best is not a record - I propose removing all 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th place records. --Jameboy (talk) 20:48, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  1st-5th place?
Talk:List of Major League Baseball career strikeout leaders

message: Removed deceased tag from Dennis Eckersley.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.222.79.230 (talk) 15:19, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The legend explicitly states that the tag identifies individuals who have been elected to the Hall of Fame. Mindmatrix 16:05, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Tag

message: The Active Player have a number in parenthesis after the name - no explanation for number - i have not Figured out . Max Scherzer has  # of 100. 
Wfoj3 (talk) 20:54, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  BOLD - Active Players 

message: Clayton Kershaw hit 2700 today not 2706.  That needs to be corrected. 2603:8000:CC02:115:8CF6:23FF:FEBB:3A21 (talk) 05:34, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strikeouts for Clayton Kershaw 

message: Why isn't there a Number 8 on this list? 2603:8000:8D3F:9FA:B91D:BB90:FB42:6B0B (talk) 21:43, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  List is missing Number 8 

message: So as it is right now the top 100 strike out pitchers are a bit below 2000 for right now.  But eventually there will be a time that this will no longer be the case so should we make it stop at 2000 which means the list only grows at that point as 2000 k's is a mark of a great to amazing pitcher. 158.135.163.148 (talk) 02:54, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  future proofing 
Talk:Western Yiddish

message: The Western Yiddish dialect spoken in Alsace remains the subject of specialist study with a dedicated annual journal, "Les Cahiers du CREDYO", published by the Centre de Recherche d'etudes et de documentation du yidich occidental, first appearing in 1995. A Google search on "cahier credyo" will return links to the full text of several articles that have appeared in it. There has been some debate about the extent to which the terms Judeo-Alsatian and Alsatian Yiddish are fully synonymous or, indeed, whether either of them is a correct designator for the dialect  (locally termed "Jeddischdaitsch"). In any case, the name of the local variant is not an alternate designation for the parent Western Yiddish aggregate. --Futhark|Talk 09:44, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Relevant google search.  Tomertalk 10:48, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Local variants

message: Does anyone object to my moving the material in this article to the one on Yiddish dialects, and then changing the present heading into a redirect?  I've posted the same query on Eastern Yiddish. The Eastern and Western articles both require substantial development, but the higher-level article has more than enough space to provide a unified platform for both. --Futhark|Talk 10:53, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't, really, although I'd prefer to see this article, as well as those for Poylish, Litvish and Ukrainish fleshed-out into stand-alone articles of their own.  Tomertalk 12:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've now made the redirection. If sufficient material about any of the Eastern or Western variants is added to the single target article it will be easy enough to move it back out into one or more separate articles. It is, however, also worth noting that a general dialectological presentation such as might be expected in the Wikipedia, derives a good deal of benefit from the immediate comparison of the main forms. -- Futhark|Talk 13:04, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Consolidation
Talk:Don Yenko

message: C'mon what is this? Don yenko is famous for modifying Chevrolet Camaros (known as Yenko Camaros, similar to Shelby Mustangs). Just ask every Chevrolet fans and every yenko camaros are desirable collectibles. Look at EBAY  these yenko camaros cost way more than a DELOREAN! Your motive to delete this article is completely illogical.Jbrian80 09:48, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Modifying a few cars is hardly cause for notability.  EBay isn't a source;plus, plenty of cars cost more than DeLorean's.  John Reaves 10:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe you should delete Caroll Shelby! Majority of people dont know him except ford/car buffs.Jbrian80 10:19, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've read an article or two about him in Car and Driver and I know someone with a Shelby Mustang.  John Reaves 10:49, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Delete
Talk:Television and film of New Jersey

message: The bullet format needs to go. Quadzilla99 09:53, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Format

message: Should this article be retitled as a list considering its current format?  RJFJR (talk) 22:16, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename as list?
Talk:Forfeit (baseball)

message: The article states that MLB has banned the distribution before the game of objects that could be thrown onto the the field. What is the source for this citation? In the past few years I have reached several different "throwable" giveaway items before a game  including bats and baseballs. Perhaps this was true at one time but it seems to have been rescinded.Wkharrisjr (talk) 15:09, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Since there was no comments, I've removed the questionable line. Wkharrisjr (talk) 19:05, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm unable to find promotions rules via google. As for he 1995 game, the 1996 Sporting News Baseball Guide discusses the forfeit on pages 154-155 but says nothing about any new rules. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:50, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: MLB ban on promotional giveaways?

message: Perhaps interesting but not germane to the topic of the article: forfeits in baseball. If no objections, i will remove this section. Wkharrisjr (talk) 19:04, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps a link to a separate article? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:27, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Just removing the contents seem a bit unfair (especially given Quarterback kneel#Strategy linked there). I created Forfeit (sport) just to save it somewhere, at least. --Mormegil (talk) 17:15, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Forfeits in other sports

message: We're always told that the final score of a forfeited game is recorded as 9-0, but does this have any significance at all?  In the cases where a game was played out (or partially played out) the actual statistics are recorded, except for pitcher win and loss.
The only justification that I can come up with is that in some leagues, runs scored and/or runs allowed may be used as some kind of tiebreaker in the standings when teams finish with identical won-lost percentages.  If the forfeit score goes into the equation in place of the actual score, the nine extra runs would favor the non-offending team.  (However, if they were leading by more than nine runs when the other team forefeited they wouldn't be too pleased.)
However, runs don't affect Major League pennant races, so the forfeit score might as well be 100-0 for all that it matters. WHPratt (talk) 14:53, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's only symbolic, and goes back to the early days. MLB scoring rules specifically ignore the fanciful "9-0" and count the stats based on the situation: ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:58, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Is the article correct in stating that the score for a Little League forfeit is 7-0, when a regulation Little League game is only six innings?  72.104.146.188 (talk) 17:22, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  9-0 
Talk:Foul tip

message: As of the date and time of this post this Article contained the sentence:
::QUOTE:
:::A foul tip is always a strike, regardless of the existing ball-and-strike count.
::UNQUOTE
:That sentence might be wrong. There was a recent game in which there were two strikes, and the next pitch resulted in a vigorous swing of the bat foul-tipped the ball. If the sentence above were true, that's the same as a strike. The catcher failed to catch the ball. If the sentence quoted above were true, making the foul-tip count as a strike, then the "uncaught third strike rule" would have been triggered, and the runner would have commenced running to first with the catcher trying to recover the baseball and get that batter (now a runner) out. Instead, play proceeded as if the batter had hit an uncaught foul ball having two strikes. Thus the count of strikes remained at two, and the pitcher continued pitching to this batter. I've done some research and apparently if there are two strikes and then there's a foul tip, it is Strike Three ONLY IF the catcher catches it. Otherwise, such a foul tip becomes a foul ball, not a third Strike.2600:8804:8800:11F:1C64:8308:33BC:E2D6 (talk) 21:08, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
Talk:Obstruction (baseball)

message: cite something!Wikidude57SBC 00:19, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  citiation 

message: So what about in a pickoff, can you stay in the way if you don't yet have the ball yet, or are you "fielding"? 018 (talk) 18:26, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  pickoff 

message: Violations of the rule against obstruction are rare at the major-league level. But the rule practically defines the game by ensuring that blocking and tackling are not part of baseball as they are much of the game of American football. Because blocking and tackling are not part of the game, size does not have the significance in baseball that it does in American football. Thus players of modest size, like Derek Jeter and Dustin Pedroia, who could never play NFL football, can star in baseball.
Of course this is opinion and even original research... but it seems very obvious. Maybe someone can find a citation for this, even if in a guide to Little League baseball.Pbrower2a (talk) 04:49, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rarity -- but the rule practically defines the game 
Talk:Pitching position

message: Anyone know of a good photo of a pitcher in the windup?  All I can find on WP is images of pitchers pitching from the set.  --Locarno 15:29, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need a windup photo 

message: If there are two positions why are there three terms in bold? Someone needs to make up their mind on what to call the second position.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.186.151.231 (talk) 01:01, August 26, 2007 (UTC) 
: I've edited to make it clear that the stretch is part of the set.  Locarno 12:51, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Three positions? 

message: Please advise if a right hand throwing pitcher can come to set position from the stretch with his front foot positioned at about a 45 degree angle or half way between homeplate and first base?  Is this legal?
Thanks,MJC  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.240.181.240 (talk) 23:05, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, in practice, the free foot can come set almost anywhere; the rules though state that it may be anywhere "in front of" the pitcher's plate".  Enforcing a violation of this rule would be a "don't do that" situation--a warning and ejection if continued willful violation occurs.  Locarno (talk) 15:08, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pitchers set position - 45% angle between home and first base - leagl?? 

message: Under the header 'Strengths and weaknesses' the following sentence was added: "Pitcher is by far the best position in baseball."
This reads like vandalism to me, however I have pretty much zero knowledge about baseball, so I'm not sure if 'best position' is simply a term I don't understand.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ErfeoM (talk • contribs) 14:45, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed that sentence. It's an opinion and non-encyclopedic in both tone and substance.Nightshift49 (talk) 16:24, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  'best position', Possible vandalism?
Talk:Tag up

message: If I heard correctly (2021 World Series, Game 6), a runner from (say) First base who touches and passes Second base as a fly ball is caught, must retouch Second base on his way back to tagging up at First. Never heard off this …DOR (HK) (talk) 00:59, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retouching a passed base
Talk:Jimmy Claxton

message: I'm not disputing that he was, though certainly the lede should say he was of "black and aboriginal ancestry", since "Native American" is not a term to be used in regard to Canadian aboriginal people.  Though introduced as a fellow member of teh Oklahoma people - which maybe he was on his black side - I happen to know that "Claxton" is a First Nations surname in British Columbia, originating in one of the Coast Salish languages, Hulquminum I think (Straits Halkomelem aka Island Halkomelem); I don't know more about this guy, but I do know that it's a "chiefly" name and one of several traditional names that were transliterated into English in that region.  Wellington is in the territory of the Snuneymux people, but my memory of the name suggests somewhere farther south, Chemainus or Cowichan I think, or one of the Straits Salish (Tsawout or Saanich etc)....Skookum1 (talk) 20:10, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: OK I was completely wrong, the Claxton native name must be a complete coincidence, or is even derived from him somehow; his father was from Tennessee; see here and note that link has information that can expand this article considerably.Skookum1 (talk) 22:40, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Native American?

message: This write up is taken almost verbatim from the narration of the Ken Burns Baseball documentary. ("Inning 3")  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Billtaverner (talk • contribs) 02:14, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can demonstrate that, e.g. with a link to that documentary or a transcript of it, then place  on the article (without the tl| part.  Or report it at WP:COPYVIO, I'm not sure of the correct noticeboard name for copyright violations.Skookum1 (talk) 06:52, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism?
Talk:Sardinella tawilis

message: Just created the page. I hope it's ok that I don't really refer to it as "Freshwater sardinella". The species is endemic to the Philippines and I've only ever heard the term "Tawilis" used here. Shrumster 21:59, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Created page
Talk:George Gibson (baseball)

message: This section badly needs to be 'toned down' in terms of what seems a fairly obvious case of  non-neutral point of view. If at least a few references aren't provided fairly shortly, I'm simply going to pull the entire section as unreferenced non-npov.  cheers  Deconstructhis (talk) 02:46, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed section as per above, no references and non-npov. thanks Deconstructhis (talk) 21:39, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  House demolition section 

message: In the version of the article which I saved a few minutes ago, I forgot to say that the reason for the change was "using new sabrbio template". Sorry!
As I made that change, I noticed that there were no inline citations at all, so I added that tag in the latest change. I don't dispute any of the facts in the article (I had barely heard of Gibson until I edited his article), but it would be nice to know what sources or references pertain to which information. DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 23:36, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  SABR Bio + inline citations
Talk:Streaking (microbiology)

message: Should this page perhaps be merged with the  Bacterial lawn page (or rather bacterial lawn with this one)? I believe the different methods of inoculating bacteria onto media should be put on one page. Jessica87au (talk) 08:44, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think they're different enough to warrant separate articles, but I've added a link on this page.  Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 14:12, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think that this article may'be expanded within another title such microbiological isolation or microbe isolation which could allow enciclopedical view about the techniques available for this issue, developing sections as exhausting streaking isolation (single strike and scotish strike), volume streaking (striking a known volume of culture or sample), Most Probable Number isolation (bank of dilutions), bacterial lawn isolation (isolation for viruses), or even flow cytometry, PCR isolation, or another ones. --Bestiasonica (talk) 22:48, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Kartika Rane

message: I, more or less agree with the proposal of deletion of the page. various searches don't yield enough results to prove the notability. Nadesai (talk) 07:04, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed deletion