User:Philippe

From BR Bullpen

Philippe is my real first name. I am a member of SABR (The Society for American Baseball Research) and its SABR-Quebec Chapter [1]. I was one of the most fervent fans of the late, regretted Montreal Expos and plan to author a number of articles on the team and its players in the BR Bullpen.

I can be reached at +ljpc2001@yahoo.ca (remove the + sign).

Contents 1 Things I am currently working on 2 Some early 2007 projects 3 More 2007 Projects 4 A Manifesto

[edit] Things I am currently working on

• Season summaries for all years the Expos were in existence (now up to 1986)
• Biographies of selected players, managers, coaches and other persons linked to the Montreal Expos

• A standardized list of Notable Achievements for all players. I am starting with winners of the Silver Slugger Award (done), and will move on to Gold Glove Winners (done), MVPs (done). Cy Young Award Winners (done), Rookie of the Year Award Winners (done), Comeback Player of the Year (done), Manager of the Year Winners (done), and other Hall of Famers (done). Now adding Minor League Player of the Year award winners (done).
• Members of the various World Series Champions since 1903 (completed, June 14, 2007).
• Players who have played in the All-Star Game (now up to 1999).

• Completing information about minor league teams and cities. I am now working my way alphabetically through every city that has hosted a team in organized baseball. (Done on March 22, 2006).
• I am now working my way through all pages for Canadian cities in the bullpen, adding the two-letter province code, and adjucting any pages that links or should link to them. I am also adding a short geographic blurb about each place, for everyone's reading pleasure. (Done on March 25, 2006).

• Adding a few more elaborate definitions under the glossary section.
• Adding bibliographical references, especially to recently-published books.
• Anything else that catches my fancy.

This should keep me busy for a while.

[edit] Some early 2007 projects

• I've just done a lot of clean-up and standardization on the independent league pages.
• I'm going through the Nov-Dec 2006 newsletter of the SABR Biographical Research Committee and updating player data. Major changes include a lot of research on exact birth places for players born in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, including assigning cities to the right province. This will require some playing around with the city pages for those two countries over the next while, but it will correct a lot of inconsistencies when completed.

[edit] More 2007 Projects

• I'm going through 2007 statistics for every MLB player and updating their Notable Achievements pages and other partial blurbs as I go. (completed on November 8)
• I am reviewing my collection of 1990s Registers and Guides and inputting information relative to minor league managers and minor league teams. The amount of information on the minor leagues we now have on this site is amazing.
• I am continuing to add information of Independent Leagues and teams. The Indy leagues are such a fluid environment that a lot of data risks being lost if not added quickly. I'm no expert on the subject, but this work creates the basis for further input.
• I am continuing to add informastion from the various SABR newsletters I receive, particularly biographical info + new publications.

• I will be on holidays until mi-July, 2008. Everyine keep up the good work in my absence.

[edit] A Manifesto

I aim for quality over quantity. Well-written and researched original articles is what makes the bullpen such a great site, as well as reliable information not available elsewhere. Let's concentrate on this and not on copying tables and lists that are available elsewhere.