Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/MLB team season articles format

From Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Style advice#Teams: follow the format season, so that the {{Tl|Infobox baseball team season}} template can automatically generate links to the next and previous seasons. Example: 1882 Cincinnati Red Stockings season

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

| image = Some_logo.png

| current league = league

| division = division

| image2 = example.png

| ballpark = ballpark

| city = 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

| image = NY_Yankees_Logo.png

| league = American League

| division = Eastern Division

| image2 = Al_2005_newyork_01.gif

| ballpark = Yankee Stadium

| city = New York City, New York

| owners = George Steinbrenner

| managers = Joe Torre

| television = YES Network

| radio = WCBS (AM)

}}

will produce:

• 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.

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

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

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:

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

For example adding

{{2007 AL East Standings}}

will show

{{2007 AL East Standings}}

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.

Who started on opening day?

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 || Tigers || 8–4 || Wang || Robertson || || 56,291 || 1–0
|- style="text-align: center; background-color: #bbb"
| || October 4 || Tigers || colspan=6 |Postponed (rain)
|- style="text-align: center; background-color: #fbb"
| 2 || October 5 || Tigers || 4–3 || Walker || Mussina || Jones || 56,252 || 1–1
|- style="text-align: center; background-color: #fbb"
| 3 || October 6 || @ Tigers || 0–6 || Rogers || Johnson || || 43,440 || 1–2
|- style="text-align: center; background-color: #fbb"
| 4 || October 7 || @ Tigers || 3–8 || Bonderman || Wright || || 43,126 || 1–3
{{MLB game log section end}}
{{MLB game log end}}

Will produce:

{{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 || Tigers || 8–4 || Wang || Robertson || || 56,291 || 1–0

|- style="text-align: center; background-color: #bbb"

| || October 4 || Tigers || colspan=6 |Postponed (rain)

|- style="text-align: center; background-color: #fbb"

| 2 || October 5 || Tigers || 4–3 || Walker || Mussina || Jones || 56,252 || 1–1

|- style="text-align: center; background-color: #fbb"

| 3 || October 6 || @ Tigers || 0–6 || Rogers || Johnson || || 43,440 || 1–2

|- style="text-align: center; background-color: #fbb"

| 4 || October 7 || @ Tigers || 3–8 || Bonderman || Wright || || 43,126 || 1–3

{{MLB game log section end}}

{{MLB game log end}}

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

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.

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

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