Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/Volume 02 issue 08

 The Inside Corner

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Around the horn

 * The San Francisco Giants beat the Kansas City Royals in seven games in the 2014 World Series, their third title in the past five years. Madison Bumgarner was named World Series MVP, after pitching a complete game shutout in Game 5 and, two days later, pitching five scoreless innings in relief to end Game 7.


 * Andrew Friedman left his position as General Manager of the Tampa Bay Rays on October 14 to take a new post as President of Baseball Operations with the Los Angeles Dodgers, who removed GM Ned Colletti from his job.


 * Friedman's departure triggered an opt-out clause in Rays manager Joe Maddon's contract, which he exercised. Maddon was quickly hired as manager of the Chicago Cubs, prompting the Rays to consider filing a complaint with the commissioner's office, according to media reports.


 * St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Oscar Taveras was killed in a car accident in the Dominican Republic on October 26, 2014. He had been one of the Cardinals top prospects.


 * The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks won the 2014 Japan Series over the Hanshin Tigers.

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Project news
This month, there were a few discussions on images: how to decide which image is best to use in a article, what articles could use images, and a request for help identifying subjects in images. There was a discussion on team nicknames from the era where teams did not adopt official monikers.

A couple of threads discussed what name to use for the article on O.co Coliseum: one at the article's talk page, and one at Wikipedia talk:Article titles. There was no consensus to change existing practice of using the current official venue name.

An issue arose regarding the notability of bullpen catchers, and a thread was started at Wikipedia talk:Notability (sports). The current consensus appears to be that bullpen catchers, whether or not they are officially a team coach, do not have a record of meeting the general notability guideline with a high enough frequency to warrant the presumption of notability set by the baseball-specific notability guidelines.

In terms of article promotion, we had four good articles promoted this month, but as we noted last month, there is a large backlog of GANs related to baseball awaiting review, so if you can help, that would be appreciated. No FAs or FLs were promoted.
 * GAs: Jake Diekman ; Pat Seerey ; Pablo Sandoval ; Rick Ferrell

Thanks to everyone for their work on baseball-related articles; it is much appreciated!

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Showcase
The Commissioner's Trophy is awarded annually to the winner of the World Series. Its current design is a ring of flags, one for each of Major League Baseball's thirty teams, which rise above a silver baseball. A new trophy is commissioned each year to be presented to the champions. The article achieved Good Article status in July 2009.

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 * Project news: images, stadium names, bullpen catchers, good articles
 * Around the horn: World Series, Tampa Bay management departures, Oscar Taveres, Japan Series
 * Showcase: Commissioner's Trophy