Talk:List of Major League Baseball annual ERA leaders

Adding "In baseball" to lead sentence
Here's why I think "In baseball" should be added to the beginning of the first sentence. First, I believe the lead sentence of an article should be able to stand on its own to inform the reader, rather than using the article title as a crutch. If uninformed readers read the lead sentence in its current form,


 * "Earned run average (ERA) is a statistic used to evaluate pitchers, calculated as the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched."

it's not at all obvious that the article's topic is baseball. In fact, now that I look more closely, the word "baseball" isn't used at all in the first paragraph, and isn't used as a stand-alone term in the entire lead section.

Second, the title alone does not tell readers who aren't familiar with ERA precisely in what circles the statistic is used. For all they know, ERA could be used in any bat-and-ball game that has a pitcher, or it could be used only in Major League Baseball. By adding "In baseball", we provide much-needed context to uninformed readers.— tk tk  tk  18:58, 26 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Considering that the word "baseball" is in the title of the article, I think the context is already there. Contending that it's not obvious when the word is right there... I don't think that really works. It certainly doesn't hurt anything; I just don't see that it helps anything either. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 19:00, 26 March 2010 (UTC)


 * That's the thing, though: the phrase "Major League Baseball" is in the title of the article, not just the word "baseball". After reading the article title and lead section, uninformed readers won't necessarily know that ERA is used in baseball in general and not just in MLB. — tk tk  tk  19:15, 26 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't think anyone is going to think that it's an MLB-only phenomenon, but I see your point. I'll make the change at the related wins list as well. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 19:20, 26 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, from what I've seen in articles it just seems like standard practice to establish context in the lead as well as the title. Thanks for understanding. :) — tk tk  tk  19:34, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Weird linking
There are a lot of places in the list where a player on the San Francisco Giants is linked to like this: New York Giants. Is there a reason? Nick Garvey (talk) 00:20, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

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