Talk:Milton Bradley (baseball)/GA1

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Reviewer: Wizardman (talk · contribs) 16:20, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Oh Milton Bradley, there's a player I vividly remember watching. Will review shortly. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:20, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Here are the issues I found:

• For references, the publishers/works only need to be linked on the first use; all subsequent ones should be delinked.
• "11 year MLB career" add ndash (11-year)
• "For the year, Bradley finished 17 in American" 17th
• "He has a career batting average of .271, with 135 home runs and 481 runs batted in (RBI) over 1,042 games played." no comma needed after .271, and 'in' is needed after the rbi in parentheses.
• "but instead signed with the Expos after he was drafted by the team in the second round of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft." The date could be added here, since I'm sure B-R has it,
• I believe major league is two separate words, so remove the dash where used.
• "In 2002, on April 15, he was placed on the" Is there a better way to word that? Starting it with "In April 15, 2002.." isn't ideal, though it would be an improvement.
• "with the MLB Indians" rm MLB, seems obvious that's the case.
• "the disabled list following" add (DL) after disabled list since the abbreviated form's used after.
• "Indian's training" Indians'
• link Eric Wedge
• Any contract info that could be put in for 2005, or anything interesting that happened? With how full 2004 looked, 2005 paled in comparison.
• I'm a little confused why the Royals trade was voided but the Padres one was fine, since he was injured during the Padres trade. Did the Royals void the trade on their end? If so make that clearer.
• The Padres' section is unsourced sans the one ref at the end. If it's being used for the whole thing then at least put it in at the end of each para, if not source the rest of it.
• "one of the most consistent hitters for the Padres throughout the rest of the season." a source distinctly noting that is needed.
• The Mariners section is just not good; it just feels like a couple facts thrown onto the page with no structure. It could easily be one solid paragraph noting the stats alongside his issues for the parts of two seasons he played.
• Have any other teams come close to signing him since the May 2011 release? I imagine not as I have not heard anything, but thought I'd ask.

Found a lot of issues, more then I expected honestly, but it's all fixable. I'll put it on hold for five days and pass when it's fixed. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 03:33, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

About halfway through. Two questions: the quote from John Hart, in the source it uses "major-league", should I leave that alone, and how should I fix point number two? Do you want "11–year"? Albacore (talk) 03:10, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

For the quote major-league is fine, since quotes have to be written as is. For the second, it should just say 11-year. Not sure why I said to put an ndash there, that's wrong. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 04:36, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Fixed and added, and I've also added some things from his MLB profile. As for teams since 2011, I haven't been able to find anything using a Google and a Highbeam search. I also looked for something saying he retired, but haven't found that either. Albacore (talk) 04:11, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Everything looks good now, so I'll pass the article as a GA. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 12:37, 20 June 2012 (UTC)