Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/MLB team season articles format

This page is a guide to creating a season article for a Major League Baseball team. This includes the basic information that should be included, though feel free to add other information as you desire.

Article name

From Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Style advice#Teams: follow the format <year> <team article name> season, so that the {{Infobox MLB yearly}} template can automatically generate links to the next and previous seasons. Example: 1882 Cincinnati Red Stockings season

Infobox

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

{{Infobox baseball team season
| 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

{{Infobox baseball team season
| 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 Division Eastern Division Ballpark Yankee Stadium City New York City, New York Owners George Steinbrenner Managers Joe Torre Television YES Network Radio WCBS (AM) Seasons

• 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.

Offseason

Description of events that took place between the end of the last season and the start of the new one.

Spring training

Description of key facts from spring training. The games themselves are usually not important so a gamelog is not necessary.

Regular season

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:

• {{2007 AL East Standings}}
• {{2007 AL Central Standings}}
• {{2007 AL West Standings}}
• {{2007 NL East Standings}}
• {{2007 NL Central Standings}}
• {{2007 NL West Standings}}

For example adding

{{2007 AL East Standings}}

will show

AL East	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Boston Red Sox	96	66	0.593	—	51–30	45–36
New York Yankees	94	68	0.580	2	52–29	42–39
Toronto Blue Jays	83	79	0.512	13	49–32	34–47
Baltimore Orioles	69	93	0.426	27	35–46	34–47
Tampa Bay Devil Rays	66	96	0.407	30	37–44	29–52

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.

Opening day roster

Who started on opening day?

Game log

When creating a game log, use the following code:

{{MLB game log|year=YEAR|bgcolor=#6E8B3D}}
{{MLB game log section|month=MONTH|bgcolor=#9EBD69|hide=n}}
|-
{{MLB game log section end}}
{{MLB game log end}}

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 using section (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.

{{MLB game log|year=2007|playoff=y|bgcolor=#6E8B3D}}
{{MLB game log section|section=ALDS|hide=n}}
|- style="text-align: center; background-color: #bfb"
| 1 || [[October 3]] || [[Detroit Tigers|Tigers]] || 8–4 || '''[[Chien-Ming Wang|Wang]]''' || [[Nate Robertson|Robertson]] || || 56,291 || 1–0
|- style="text-align: center; background-color: #bbb"
| || [[October 4]] || [[Detroit Tigers|Tigers]] || colspan=6 |''Postponed (rain)''
|- style="text-align: center; background-color: #fbb"
| 2 || [[October 5]] || [[Detroit Tigers|Tigers]] || 4–3 || [[Jamie Walker (baseball)|Walker]] || '''[[Mike Mussina|Mussina]]''' || [[Todd Jones (baseball)|Jones]] || 56,252 || 1–1
|- style="text-align: center; background-color: #fbb"
| 3 || [[October 6]] || @ [[Detroit Tigers|Tigers]] || 0–6 || [[Kenny Rogers (baseball)|Rogers]] || '''[[Randy Johnson|Johnson]]''' || || 43,440 || 1–2
|- style="text-align: center; background-color: #fbb"
| 4 || [[October 7]] || @ [[Detroit Tigers|Tigers]] || 3–8 || [[Jeremy Bonderman|Bonderman]] || '''[[Jaret Wright|Wright]]''' || || 43,126 || 1–3
{{MLB game log section end}}
{{MLB game log end}}

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 0–6 Rogers Johnson 43,440 1–2 4 October 7 @ Tigers 3–8 Bonderman Wright 43,126 1–3
* = Divisional Games

• When put into the team article, this box should collapse.

Current roster

This should be the team roster template during the season. After the season is over should be renamed as (Year) roster and replaced with a roster that shows all the players that played for the team during the season.

Farm system

The teams and standings of the team's minor league affiliates.

References

Include the baseball reference link and a link to the team website.