Talk:Carlos Delgado/Archive 1

Picture
I realize that it's in need of a picture of some sort, but I'm not sure of a good place to get one that would satisfy copyright rules. Would any from [mlb.com MLB.com] fit under the Fair use policies?

POV
As much as I like Delgado, I can't help but feel that there's a little bit of bias in this article. Maybe it's the diction of this article, but something definitely skews praise for the man. Ohyeahmormons 20:12, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Care to give an example? —Wknight94 (talk) 21:00, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
 * ''Through the 2005 season, in 13 years of major league service, Delgado had a career .284 batting average, and a .393 on-base percentage with 369 home runs and 1,173 RBI in 1,567 games.


 * ''Carlos Delgado was one of the first Puerto Rican players to agree to play for Puerto Rico in the MLB World Baseball Classic, representing the island. In addition to Delgado, the team featured fellow Puerto Ricans Ivan Rodriguez, Sandy Alomar, Jr. as catchers; Carlos Beltran, Bernie Williams, Jose Cruz, Jr. and Luis Matos as outfielders; Mike Lowell, José Vidro, Felipe Lopez, Alex Cintron and Carlos Baerga as infielders; and pitchers Javier Vazquez, Joel Pineiro, J.C. Romero and Kiko Calero amongst others, in a team managed by St. Louis Cardinals third base coach Jose Oquendo.


 * ''Despite playing only two games (one as a catcher and one as a DH) and having one at-bat with the Blue Jays in 1993, Delgado was awarded a World Series championship ring after the team won the World Series.


 * ''Through 2006, Delgado is the all-time leader for interleague play RBI with 131, and second all-time in home runs with 43.


 * On August 22, 2006, Delgado hit his 400th career home run, a grand slam, off of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Jeff Weaver at Shea Stadium. He is the only player whose 400th home run was a grand slam.


 * The whole thing seems like a list of achievements than an actual article. Ohyeahmormons 23:13, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Well there's a bit about his not-so-popular anti-war protests. What sort of negative things do you want in there to balance it out?  He's been a helluva baseball player so far.  Feel free to peruse http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/PX_delgc001.htm and put in some of his four-strikeout games or whatever. —Wknight94 (talk) 23:43, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I think some of the sentences suffered from excess use of words like "very" and "only." I've removed most of them. I think that helps make it seem more neutral. I also got rid of the list of all the Puerto Rican WBC players. Why that needed to be in the Delgado article was a mystery to me. I think it's in line with most of the other sports bios now, even though it wasn't far off to begin with. Can we remove the POV box now? --Veronique 01:05, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I think that's better. Thank you. Ohyeahmormons 17:46, 4 September 2006 (UTC)