Talk:Kevin Pillar

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Did you know... that Kevin Pillar (pictured) became a Major League Baseball player, despite being the 979th player drafted in 2011?

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Citations[edit]

Nice article, but a bit of Citation overkill. Might want to deal with that. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:31, 23 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Twitter[edit]

Reliable tweets should IMHO be fine as a ref in a BLP, contrary to the assertion here ... the key, however, is they need to be from an authenticated account. The one deleted was from a bogus account ... though there is a verified account. --Epeefleche (talk) 18:21, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Editors must differentiate between rumours and fact on Twitter, even from verified accounts. Heyman and other good sources sometimes tweet rumours. Cpfan776 (talk) 00:50, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

RSs routinely report rumors. As rumors. Sometimes their headlines refer to rumors, as here. But I've never seen Heyman tweet a rumor as fact. --Epeefleche (talk) 02:46, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

But I regularly see people interpret rumours as fact, and sometimes update Wiki. Especially something that has been tweeted because of the 140 character format. Heck I regularly see proper articles containing the words "expected to sign" treated as fact. Cpfan776 (talk) 12:47, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Page "cleanup"[edit]

Even though I feel it is your responsibility, User:PM800, to open a discussion here per WP:BRD, I'm going to open one and explain to you why I have partially reverted your changes here. I feel that it is unnecesary to remove statistics from the infobox (which you doubled-down on here) and divide the minor league career into individual year subsections (some of which overlap with already in-place subsections in the MLB career section). I'll invite you for a third time to explain your edits here in the hopes that we can avoid an edit-war, which I have no interest in participating in. Trut-h-urts man (T • C) 15:39, 19 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Change Pillar's Team Affiliation![edit]

It has been officially announced that Kevin Pillar joined the Boston Red Sox. 14% Sea Gull (talk) 03:43, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

^{[citation needed]} – Muboshgu (talk) 04:04, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

See, now that I know it is in fact a done deal, it's changed. Next time, show me a source and it'll be done faster. This counts: https://twitter.com/RedSox/status/1228499364571701255 – Muboshgu (talk) 04:22, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mets Confirmed[edit]

Hi - looks like Pillar's signing to the Mets has been confirmed.

https://www.mlb.com/news/kevin-pillar-mets-deal

https://metsmerizedonline.com/2021/02/get-to-know-mets-outfielder-kevin-pillar.html/

His Twitter bio also now says "Professional Baseball Player for the NY @mets & part time superman", and he's tweeted multiple times about playing with the Mets.

https://twitter.com/KPILLAR4/status/1362945068676624386

https://twitter.com/KPILLAR4/status/1362383499739627521

Stroman has also tweeted about being happy to play with Pillar again.

https://twitter.com/STR0/status/1361503687147986949

https://twitter.com/STR0/status/1361504107874426882