Talk:José Valverde

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Was he born in Dominican Republic or Havana, Cuba? Page is inconsistent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.112.181.14 (talk) 01:44, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

jim traber calling him papa grande[edit]

I watched every Diamondbacks game Jose Valverde's rookie season. Traber explained on air after receiving letters that he never actually intended for it to be translated directly from Spanish, rather that he was just adding the Spanish word after the word Papa to come up with the nickname. He said he knew Papa translates to potato. So while I have my own suspicions that Traber simply wouldn't own up to his mistake, the claim that he truly thought Papa Grande directly translates to Big Daddy is somewhat unfounded. As far as I know, Traber has still not claimed any such mistake. Also the way it was written was pretty much word for word from the blog so it's borderline plagiarism. Additionally, a dubious statement preceded by "legend has it" is inappropriate for Wikipedia unless the legend itself is significant e.g. Ruth's "called shot". So I'm editing that. Dancindazed (talk) 05:58, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I couldn't find a source explaining all of the above, and I think that would be a tough task, so I had to compromise on giving the correct story and leave the section more general. Dancindazed (talk) 05:58, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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The sentence at the end of Valverde's career section "Following the game, manager Jim Leyland announced that Valverde will be relieved of his closer position indefinitely." is incorrect. Leyland said that, though he will not close game 2 (which he did not), Valverde will remain "a very important part of this postseason." ^[1] Leyland also commented that despite the game 1 performance, he still considers Valverde the Tiger's closer. ^[2]

Rsova55 (talk) 05:21, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: I have instead removed that statement per your good-faith challenge to uncited BLP material. I personally think that this section gives undue weight to two individual blown saves and needs to be evaluated as a whole, not just by replacing one uncited sentence with one better-worded and cited sentence. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 14:14, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Kaduk, Kevin. "Jim Leyland says Jose Valverde won't close Game 2, but remains an 'important part' of bullpen". Yahoo! Sports. Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
^ Windsor, Shawn. "Leyland likes Valverde, but he has other options". USA Today. USA Today. Retrieved 16 October 2012.

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[1] Kaduk, Kevin. "Jim Leyland says Jose Valverde won't close Game 2, but remains an 'important part' of bullpen". Yahoo! Sports. Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 16 October 2012.

[2] Windsor, Shawn. "Leyland likes Valverde, but he has other options". USA Today. USA Today. Retrieved 16 October 2012.

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