Template talk:Infobox MLB

MLB_infobox

Is there way someone could please troubleshoot the copy of the MLB infobox on BaseballWiki so it can work right? --Kitch 14:47, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Reduced Infobox

I have reduced the infoboxes to a more reasonable version. There should not be stand-alone templates (like Template:MLB infobox Brewers for example) that hold only infoboxes. Infoboxes are supposed to be placed directly in the article in accordance with Wikipedia guidelines. That is why the Braves infobox was recently deleted, and it's likely that more will be deleted in the future, causing us to lose all of their info. Rather than copy all the info from the template pages into the start of each team page (which would add close to 100 lines to the beginning of every team article), I significantly pared down this info so it would not dominate the team pages. A lot of the info from the old infoboxes was already in the articles and thus redundant, but if there are things that need to be included, please move it from the templates into the main article, as I will also do when I get the chance. Thanks. - Pal 01:17, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I've reverted your edit to replace the old infoboxes back onto the page space rather then the secondary template space like they were. I just think the newer one was way less informative. I think it'll be easier to pick and choose info (if any) to remove from the more informative boxes rather then starting from what was essentially scratch with the new one. Gateman1997 15:41, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Logo problem

Recently the St Louis Cardinals Logo.svg has been having problems using this template. When I replaced the template with the full code and raised the pixel count to 101px from 100px it works perfectly fine. If anyone with more knowledge then me would like to either explain this or make sure a blanket change across all teams would not hurt any logos then please do so.Sir hugo 21:25, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

"Other Nicknames"

Many baseball team pages currently have unofficial nicknames right below the team name in the infobox, and also in the lead paragraph. See the Philadelphia Phillies for a particularly egregious example. I think that a much less prominent place should be found for many of these nicknames, and after discussing the issue on the WikiProject talk page and not getting any support, one solution that appears acceptable to all parties would be creating a space in the infobox template for "Other Nicknames" similar to what is curently done for NFL teams (see Minnesota Vikings for an example). Can someone who is more comfortable writing templates help me with this task? --BlueMoonlet 04:11, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

add current season payroll to infobox.

the team's payroll should be part of the MLB infobox, with a link to List of Major League Baseball teams by payroll. it's a critical factor in and snapshot of so many key areas. here's a sample (if you wanted it to be lower in the infobox that would be fine)....

Tampa Bay Devil Rays
2024 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season
Established in 1998 2007 Payroll: $24.1M (30th MLB, 14th AL)
Major league affiliations
American League (1998–present) East Division (1998–present)
Retired numbers	12, 42
Name
Tampa Bay Devil Rays (1998–present)
Other nicknames
The D-Rays, The Rays
Ballpark
Tropicana Field (1998–present)
Major league titles
World Series titles (0)	none
AL Pennants (0)	none
Division titles (0)	none
Wild card berths (0)	None
Front office
Principal owner(s)	Stuart Sternberg
General manager	Andrew Friedman
Manager	Joe Maddon

Riphamilton 00:40, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Abbreviations

Would it be appropriate to include a field for the teams' common abbreviations? They are used ubiquitously in much media. Here is a table of the most common ones, from 1, 2, and 3:

Team	Primary abbrev.	Other abbrev.
Arizona Diamondbacks	ARI	ARZ, AZ
Atlanta Braves	ATL
Baltimore Orioles	BAL
Boston Red Sox	BOS
Chicago Cubs	CHC	CHN, CUB
Chicago White Sox	CHW	CWS, SOX, CHA
Cincinnati Reds	CIN
Cleveland Indians	CLE
Colorado Rockies	COL
Detroit Tigers	DET
Florida Marlins	FLA	FL
Houston Astros	HOU
Kansas City Royals	KC	KAN, KCR
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim	LAA	ANA, LA
Los Angeles Dodgers	LA	LAD, LOS
Milwaukee Brewers	MIL
Minnesota Twins	MIN
New York Mets	NYM	NYN, NY
New York Yankees	NYY	NYA, NY
Oakland Athletics	OAK	A'S, ATH
Philadelphia Phillies	PHI	PHA
Pittsburgh Pirates	PIT
San Diego Padres	SD	SDP, SDG
San Francisco Giants	SF	SFO
Seattle Mariners	SEA
St. Louis Cardinals	STL
Tampa Bay Rays	TB	TAM
Texas Rangers	TEX	TR
Toronto Blue Jays	TOR
Washington Nationals	WAS	DC, WSH, NAT

--Xyzzyva (talk) 05:38, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

MLB year

There's been a new template created to use the MLB season instead of the year in baseball. Could the templates in this userbox be replaced? It will likely be a problem if anyone tries to take a team article through GA or FA nominations. I can do it but I wanted to see some responses first. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 16:31, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

@Killervogel5

Despite this request being several years old, this makes more sense to use MLB instead of baseball in general. Any objections? R.L (talk) 15:42, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Minor league affiliations

How about adding a section for minor league affiliations to the infobox? Flyguy33 (talk) 07:51, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Prior major league affiliations

The infobox should have a way to show prior major league affiliations. For example, the St. Louis Cardinals infobox for "Major league affiliations" only shows the NL from 1892-present. In fact, the Cardinals were also in the major league American Association (19th century) from 1882-1891. The text covers this point, but the infobox is actually incorrect and misleading in that it has the plural "affliationS." It should be changed to allow for prior major league affiliations, or to say something like "Present major league affiliation." (BTW, I must apologize if this is already possible to do, and I just don't see it.) -Kgwo1972 (talk) 13:59, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Team and Cap logo no centered

Anyone know why the Team and cap logo are not centered right now but are aligned left? I can't find the coding causing it. Gateman1997 (talk) 23:15, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Why both Team and Cap logo?

Why both Team and Cap logo when they are the same thing? Just have the teams logo on the info box have it at 250px centered. It looks a lot more cleaner and not so clustered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.92.68.182 (talk) 03:22, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

they're different for various teams. — X96lee15 (talk) 03:43, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Logos

As per the above unanswered comment, why are the logos on the left, rather than centered? ZappaOMati 03:32, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Yes, can someone have a look at this please? It looks terrible, and I don't think I'm smart enough to fix it myself. Also, it appears that Template:Infobox MiLB has the same problem. --Bongwarrior (talk) 22:38, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

The problem on both templates is fixed. CRRaysHead90 | ^{Get Some!} 04:46, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

City or Location support

Template:Infobox MLB doesn't appear to support the location of the franchise. Should it be updated to do so? And placed where?

Template:Infobox NFL team and Template:Infobox NHL team do this via

city =

while Template:Infobox basketball club uses

location =

Stipulated, there can be Project differences between these four, but they do serve as a reference. UW Dawgs (talk) 19:33, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Infobox color?

I see that NBA, NFL, and NHL team infoboxes feature color schemes but not MLB infoboxes. Is there reason why this is? It seems like a good idea. -- LuK3 (Talk) 23:43, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

@LuK3: I don't know. It seems like a good idea to me. Maybe we need to bring in other editors for comment and to hopefully reach a consensus on this topic. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 03:06, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Supporting a secondary logo

This season the Colorado Rockies have officially switched their primary and secondary logos. This means that the cap insignia and the primary logo are now the same (colors aside), while the secondary logo is distinct. There are other teams that also use their insignia as their primary logo (the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Chicago White Sox come to mind), some of whom have a secondary logo (I think Arizona's D-snake is an official a secondary logo) and some of whom do not (the Sox could still adopt a big downward arrow, but they haven't yet).

For me, this raises the issue of how to make the infobox as useful as possible. When Zacchaeusbarbour (accurately) updated the Rockies logo, the logo and the cap insignia became redundant. While this (as far as I can tell) correctly reflects reality, it's not all that useful from an information perspective. Would there be any concerns about modifying the infobox to optionally support a secondary logo instead of the cap insignia for those few teams that use their cap insignia as their primary logo and have a secondary logo? —jameslucas (" " / +) 16:25, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

2020 2nd place teams

Is there a better way to indicate the 2nd place teams for 2020 season in the infoboxes? Currently, the six teams (NYY, CLE, HOU, MIA, STL, and SD) have 2020 listed in the Wild Card section. They are in the playoffs, but they are neither division champs nor wild card teams. --Spiffy sperry (talk) 02:54, 28 September 2020 (UTC)