Talk:Alfredo Escalera (baseball)

Notability
As the article's lead clearly states, and is thrice footnoted, Escalera is the youngest draft in MLB since its current First Draft policy was established many decades ago. I believe that this fact firmly establishes notability. The significant coverage by reliable sports news sources, nationally as well as locally in Puerto Rico, demonstrate that reliable third-parties consider him and his initial accomplishment as notable.

While a MLB minor league player's notability is not presumed (Wikip[edia policy states that "Minor league players, managers, coaches, executives, and umpires are not assumed to be inherently notable. To establish that one of these is notable, the article must cite published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject"), Escalera's notability is based, not out of being a minor league player but out of the uniqueness of his selection---the youngest among thousands of draftees over nearly half a century since the current policy was put in place. No other player, be it in MLB's minor or major leagues, may claim to be the youngest. The article accurately describes what led to his historic and unique selection and his subsequent performances. CBS Sports, ESPN, local newspapers in English and Spanish, in Puerto Rico, where he was born and did his early training, inFlorida, where he trained, and in Kansas, where he plays, are reliable, secondary sources. Pr4ever (talk) 12:35, 25 November 2012 (UTC)


 * The sources in this article are multiple, far-ranging, and include Fox Sports News, CBS Sports and El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico's longest-running newspaper (since 1909). There is no further reason for a tag regarding "reliable sources."Nelsondenis248 (talk) 15:01, 6 June 2013 (UTC)