Talk:Matt Cain/GA1

GA Review[edit]

Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch

Reviewer: Bloom6132 (talk · contribs) 19:21, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to be reviewing this. —Bloom6132 (talk) 19:21, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comments –

For MLB sources (MLB.com, Giants.MLB.com), the work should be MLB.com, while the publisher should be MLB Advanced Media.
Refs 1, 8, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21, 25, 27, 32, 37, 40, 49, 51, 54, 57, 58, 67, 70, 71, 73, 80, 81 and 86 should have Sports Reference LLC as the publisher.
Date format should be consistent. Judging from the majority of dates, I'm guessing you prefer MM DD, YYYY. Refs 1, 11, 27–29, 33, 59, 87, 90 and 91 should be changed.
Book at the bottom of the "References" section should have its own separate subsection. See my recently-promoted GA as an example.
"debuted" – sounds better as "made his debut"
"In 2011, Cain won 12 games and had a 2.88 ERA. champion Giants." – what's with the second part?
"while amassing a 1.03 earned run average" – amassing doesn't seem to be the ideal word here, since it's more preferable to use it when a player wants to attain more of something; in baseball, this would be most appropriate for a higher, whole number (i.e. amassing hits, home runs, RBIs, etc.), as opposed to a lower, decimal number (i.e. ERA, WHIP). You could use recording or attaining, but I'll leave the final choice of word up to you.
"but losing" – doesn't sound right. I'd go for "but still ended up losing…" or "…Rockies; he gave up only three hits…but still ended up losing…"
"Wellemeyer (replaced midseason by Madison Bumgarner)" – add "who was" before replaced

The next two comments concern edits made by an IP. You can choose to either take my suggestions or remove the edits entirely.

"Matt Cain had 14 strike-outs" – remove the hyphen, as it's usually written as one word. This also makes it consistent with the rest of the article.
"One the Giants third home game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Cain threw two no-hit innings and then gave up nine runs in the third inning, pulling him out early." – should be "On the Giants'…" And "pulling him out early" doesn't sound right. "Knocking him out of the game early" might do, but sounds a bit colloquial. Maybe "cutting short his start"?

I'm putting this article on hold for now. Once most of the issues are addressed, I'll pass. —Bloom6132 (talk) 19:48, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

All concerns have been addressed; looks good to go. Passing the article. —Bloom6132 (talk) 04:49, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"His changeup is his secondary pitch to left-handed hitters, while he throws cutters as a secondary pitch to right-handed hitters." But a cut fastball (cutter) is not listed as one of his pitches. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.141.109.92 (talk) 05:48, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]