Talk:2011 Tampa Bay Rays season

Russ Canzler's position

Why list a player under "other positions" on the roster when he has played hundreds of professional baseball games in the field? That awkward listing lumps him in with Manny Ramirez, who was exclusively a DH in 2011. Canzler has yet to start a major league ballgame and entered three games late last season as a pinch hitter. However, he played over 131 games at AAA in 2011, splitting time almost evenly between the OF and IF. Actually, looking at just last year's stats, he played a few more games in the OF, so that would be a better place to list him here.

To me, it makes absolutely no sense to not list a player's position when he clearly has a position. Why make readers go searching other places for basic info that can (and should) be listed right in this article? Zeng8r (talk) 16:51, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

On his personal page you can list his position, but the standard practice for all past season pages is to list the players where they played in the field during that season. If they just pinch hit or were only the designated hitter then they are listed as other batters... thats how we have it on every season page.. not just this one... as this roster shows how players played during this season.. it's a snapshot of the season, so listing him as a first baseman when he didnt play there for the Rays in 2011 would be incorrect. Spanneraol (talk) 17:06, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

So the usual course is to make readers click to another article if they want to find out basic info such as what position a young player actually plays. Nice. It's the same old wikipedia story - "This is how we've done it" overrules "This is what makes sense". <sigh> Zeng8r (talk) 10:23, 26 October 2011 (UTC)