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Its a pun - He pointing to his name ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.51.22.50 (talk) 17:35, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
On April 9, I rewrote the lead section of this article. Among the edits I made was removing the second sentence, "He played for the Minnesota Twins from 1997 to 2002 and the Boston Red Sox from 2003 to 2016", and replaced it with "who played 20 Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons, primarily with the Boston Red Sox", which was added to the first sentence. No objection was made to my rewrite, it has remained virtually unchanged for over six months, and a note about the lead not adequately summarizing the key points of its contents was subsequently removed.
This month, on the 9th, the first sentence of the lead was changed without explanation to say Ortiz "played 20 Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons with the Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox" instead of "primarily with the Boston Red Sox". While subsequent sentences and paragraphs place emphasis on his time with the Red Sox, only saying Ortiz played "with the Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox" in the first sentence gives his time on these teams equal weight. When written in this manner, it does not establish that Ortiz spent most of his career and is best known for his time with the Red Sox, as opposed to the Twins. The sentence creates a false impression from the start, and if anything, it gives more weight to his time with the Twins by virtue of the Twins being mentioned before the Red Sox.
To identify which team an athlete mainly played with / is best known for instead of simply listing all of his teams is not uncommon - e.g. Pedro Martínez ("most notably the Boston Red Sox"), Randy Johnson ("played primarily for the Seattle Mariners and the Arizona Diamondbacks"), Mike Piazza ("played most notably for the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers"), and Ichiro Suzuki ("spent the bulk of his career with two teams: nine seasons with the Orix Blue Wave of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) in Japan, where he began his career, and 12 with the Seattle Mariners of MLB in the United States"). It is part of identifying to the reader what the individual is notable for. Ortiz's time with the Red Sox is what made him most notable.
For comparison, saying Ortiz simply played "with the Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox" is like saying Brett Favre simply played with the Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers, New York Jets, and Minnesota Vikings. Would it be better for Favre's lead to be written like this? While it's technically accurate, it doesn't give one team emphasis over the other in Favre's career, save for maybe the Falcons by again virtue of being first. Favre may have played for all of these teams, but he spent the vast majority of his career with the Packers, hence why his article's lead section makes note of it. Bluerules (talk) 21:44, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
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I propose breaking out the material on the shooting of David Ortiz to a new article at Shooting of David Ortiz. Since this is now unfolding to be a rather bizarre and involved conspiracy, it seems likely that there will be a substantial amount of well-reported investigation and criminal prosecution, parts of which will become increasingly tertiary to Ortiz himself. bd2412 T 04:20, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
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