User talk:Pewtey - Wikiwand

Why did you remove Lennard Pearce from the birthday's on the 9th of February, absolutely nothing was against updating it and just reaffirms the clear American bias on those lists — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mustardwilleywandererscc (talk • contribs) 13:20, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

It is because when you go to edit a date, the very first rule at the top says:

Please read before editing

Each addition now requires a direct citation from a reliable source on this page supporting it. Simply providing a wikilink is not sufficient and additions without direct sources will be removed.

You were just putting the name, not including an inline citation other than Wikipedia. Pewtey (talk) 15:38, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

MLB tiebreakers

Hi, just wondering what the MLB's tiebreaker rule when it comes to ERA and batting average are? It would help me in the future so I don't mess up the stats when updating them. Xolkan (talk) 6:47 pm, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi Xolkan, I am hope that I am doing this correctly and you get this information. Major League baseball, at least in the past, has always carried out past the three decimal places for hitting and the two decimal places for pitching to determine a winner. The only other possibility is that if a player has not reached the required plate appearances, they can receive hitless at-bats to see if they are the winner. Here is the hitting rule (from baseball-reference.com):

From 1957 to the present, a player must have 3.1 plate appearances per team game. Note, however, that from 1967 to the present a player could lead if they still led after the necessary number of hitless plate appearances were added to their at bat total.

ERA is the same way:

One inning pitched per team game that season, rounded to the nearest integer.

Note that team games are the average or expected number of games played in the league that year. So this could mean 162 even if a team only played 160 due to rainouts.

So technically as of this post, Corey Seager is hitting .343, but he is 14 plate appearances short of qualifying. Texas has played 126 games at this moment, so he would need 390.6 (I always round up to be safe, so 391), to qualify. According to his page at baseball-reference.com, he has 377. Now, if the season was over yesterday, giving him an 0-for-14 stretch, he would be hitting 114-for-346, or .32948, which would give him the AL batting crown.

The same is with the AL ERA race between Garrit Cole and Kyle Bradish. They are currently at 3.03, if you look at just two decimal places and with the rounding, however, if you carry it out further, you will see why Cole would win.

Cole: 160.3333 IP, 54 ER, 3.03118 ERA

Bradish: 127.6666 IP, 43 ER, 3.03133 ERA

That is why Cole is leading the ERA list. If you go to MLB.com stats, you will see that Cole has "1" as a ranking and Bradish a "2". If they were indeed tied, they would both be listed with "1".

I hope that helps. Pewtey (talk) 19:49, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Yes, that is very helpful, thank you. Also, is there something we can do about these IP addresses that keep putting Seager leading in Batting Average? Xolkan (talk) 4:36, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

Xolkan: I wish there was, but I think something like that would have to be done by a moderator. Pewtey (talk) 16:55, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

removing reliably sourced retirements

Hello, The Jacob Stallings retirement on the retirement section on the 2026 MLB season article is reliably sourced and you removed it. It was not an official announcement but a de facto retirement, which still applies to that section. TheChromekey (talk) 17:16, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

And that happened before the 2026 campaign started. The top of the section states

"The following players and coaches retired during the 2026 season and before the start of the 2027 season:"

The season has not started yet, so Stallings information was moved to the 2025 season. Pewtey (talk) 20:39, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

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