Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/MLB team season articles format

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This page is a guide to creating a season article for a Major League Baseball team.

Contents

[edit] Infobox

Be sure to add an infobox at the start of the article. You can use the following code to produce one:

{{MLB yearly infobox
| name = Team Name 
| season = Season Year 
| misc = 
| logo = Some_logo.png 
| current league = [[league]] 
| y1 = Year team started playing in league 
| division = [[division]] 
| y2 = Year team started playing in division 
| Uniform logo = example.png 
| ballpark = [[ballpark]] 
| y4 = Year team started playing in ballpark 
| city = [[city]] 
| y5 = Year team started playing in city 
| owners = [[Team owner(s)]]
| managers = [[Team manager(s)]]
| television = [[local television network]]
| radio = [[local radio network]] 
|}}

For Example

{{MLB yearly infobox
| name = New York Yankees
| season = 2007
| misc = 
| logo = NY_Yankees_Logo.png
| current league = American League
| y1 =  1901
| division = [[American League East|Eastern Division]]
| y2 =  1969
| Uniform logo = Al_2005_newyork_01.gif
| ballpark = [[Yankee Stadium]]
| y4 = 1923
| city = [[New York City, New York]]
| y5 = 1903
| owners = [[George Steinbrenner]] 
| managers = [[Joe Torre]]
| television = [[YES Network]]
| radio =  [[WCBS (AM)]]
|}}

Will Produce:

2007 New York Yankees
Major league affiliations
Location
2007 Information
Owner(s) George Steinbrenner
Manager(s) Joe Torre
Local television YES Network
Local radio WCBS (AM)
  • For the articles, for logo and Uniform logo, get the logos from the team's website. Per Wikipedia policy, those logos could not be included on this subpage.

[edit] Description of Season

[edit] Regular season

[edit] Season summary

[edit] April

[edit] May

[edit] June

[edit] July

[edit] August

[edit] September

[edit] Season standings

Season standings all have templates created. All you need to do is add the right division's template into this section. The following are the templates:

For Example adding

{{2007 AL East Standings}}

will show

AL East W L Pct. GB
X-Boston Red Sox 96 66 .593 —
Y-New York Yankees 94 68 .580 2
Toronto Blue Jays 83 79 .512 13
Baltimore Orioles 69 93 .426 27
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 66 96 .407 30


Adding these templates helps make sure that each article has information that is the same as the rest in their division, all that needs to be done is having the template up to date, instead of 4-6 articles.

[edit] Game Log

When creating a game log, use the following code:

{| class="toccolours" width=80% style="clear:both; margin:1.5em auto; text-align:center;"
|-
! colspan=2 style="background:#6E8B3D" | YEAR Game Log
|- valign="top" 
|<div class="NavFrame">
<div class="NavHead" style="background:#9EBD69; ">MONTH</div>
<div class="NavContent" style="text-align:left;">
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="wikitable"
|-
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="5%" | #
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="10%" | Date
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="10%" | Opponent
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="8%" | Score
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="10%" | Win
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="10%" | Loss
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="10%" | Save
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="10%" | Attendance
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="7%" | Record
|}
</div></div>

With the above code,

  • Year = The year of the season.
  • Month = The month of the season of which the game log is representing. If for postseason, insert the round (AL/NLDS, AL/NLCS, World Series).
  • # = Game number.
  • Date = Date game is played, only use month and day, year is not needed.
  • Opponent = The name of the opponent (Angels, Dodgers, etc.).
  • Score = The final score.
  • Win = The pitcher who was given the win.
  • Loss = The pitcher who was given the loss.
  • Save = The pitcher who received the save. If none, leave blank.
    • For Win, Loss, and Save: Bold ''' the pitcher of the team whose article it is
  • Attendance = The attendance of the game.
  • Record = The teams record as of that game for the season (or series if postseason).

For example, the following code is the New York Yankees in the Division Series of 2006.

{| class="toccolours" width=80% style="clear:both; margin:1.5em auto; text-align:center;"
|-
! colspan=2 style="background:#6E8B3D" | 2007 Playoff Game Log
|- valign="top" 
|<div class="NavFrame">
<div class="NavHead" style="background:#9EBD69; ">ALDS</div>
<div class="NavContent" style="text-align:left;">
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="wikitable"
|-
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="5%" | #
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="10%" | Date
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="10%" | Opponent
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="8%" | Score
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="10%" | Win
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="10%" | Loss
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="10%" | Save
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="10%" | Attendance
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="7%" | Record
|- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb"
| 1 || [[October 3]] || [[Detroit Tigers|Tigers]] || 8 - 4 || '''[[Chien-Ming Wang|Wang]]''' || [[Nate Robertson|Robertson]] || || 56,291 || 1-0
|- align="center" bgcolor="bbbbbb"
| || [[October 4]] || [[Detroit Tigers|Tigers]] || colspan=6|''Postponed (rain)''
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 2 || [[October 5]] || [[Detroit Tigers|Tigers]] || 4 - 3 || [[Jamie Walker|Walker]] || '''[[Mike Mussina|Mussina]]''' || [[Todd Jones|Jones]] || 56,252 || 1-1
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 3 || [[October 6]] || @ [[Detroit Tigers|Tigers]] || 6 - 0 || [[Kenny Rogers|Rogers]] || '''[[Randy Johnson|Johnson]]''' || || 43,440 || 1-2
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb"
| 4 || [[October 7]] || @ [[Detroit Tigers|Tigers]] || 3 - 8 || [[Jeremy Bonderman|Bonderman]] || '''[[Jaret Wright|Wright]]''' || || 43,126 || 1-3
|}</div></div>

Will produce:

2007 Playoff Game Log
ALDS
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record
1 October 3 Tigers 8 - 4 Wang Robertson 56,291 1-0
October 4 Tigers Postponed (rain)
2 October 5 Tigers 4 - 3 Walker Mussina Jones 56,252 1-1
3 October 6 @ Tigers 6 - 0 Rogers Johnson 43,440 1-2
4 October 7 @ Tigers 3 - 8 Bonderman Wright 43,126 1-3
  • When put into the team article, this box should collapse.

[edit] Player Stats

[edit] Batting

[edit] Pitchings

[edit] Starting pitchers

[edit] Relief pitchers

[edit] Play-offs

[edit] References