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Omar played 10 years for the Indians. 1 year for the blue jays. Please change his main picture to reflect his primary team. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Briangraf ( talk • contribs) 07:37, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
I'm laothe to do the edit myself, as I'm no baseball expert, but "Vizquel turns the double play fearlessly, and no one handles popups in short left field or down the line with such ease"?? Is this an encyclopedia or a fansite?-- RicardoC 23:01, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
I am no baseball expert, but I recall seeing Omar hit a game winning grand slam while he was with the Cleveland Indians. I think it's a fact worth including in this site but I don't know whether it was a playoff game or even what year. Omarfan 17:20, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
minus all the complimentary remarks about Omar Not an Omar Vizquel fan, I gather. Well, you can edit all you want, but remember the rules: no libel and slander.
I would agree that many statements by the author of the entry are rather subjective. Yet, while I'm also learning more about the game daily, I've seen plenty of Omar Vizquel to validate the following:
He has to have soft hands to be able to catch the ball bare-handed as he often does. Otherwise, the ball will bounce off his hand, resulting in error. And yes, he does recover from miscues quickly. That is, when he does make the rare error, he can re-focus and not space out the rest of the game.
The guy can throw a base-runner at 1st or 3rd while still on the ground after a diving catch.
Oh, and Vizquel now has 11 Gold Gloves--2 as a Giant--so this does have to be updated.
Montira warran 15:41, 15 June 2007 (UTC)montira_warran
I heard in a television broadcast last season that Vizquel has his own bat company and that some major leaguers even use his bats. Can anyone verify this? Darwin's Bulldog 18:55, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
I added these statistics to his page a couple of years ago because they bring out a salient part of Vizquel's value as a player. Many shortstops follow one of two paths in their career. If their fielding starts to fade first, they tend to retire. If their hitting fades first, they tend to move from the central defensive position of shortstop to other positions. Omar was able to keep both his hitting and his fielding at a high level deep into his career. This was perhaps the most remarkable thing about his career. How many other shortstops at age 39 have ever simultaneously won a gold glove (at shortstop), batted .295, scored 88 runs, and stole 24 bases? The answer is zero. The three career statistics of runs-while-playing-shortstop, hits-while-playing-shortstop, and stolen_bases-while-playing-shortstop give a specific measurement to the reader of this unique combined contribution. A tight estimate of these statistics are easily calculable from the games-played-per-position statistics shown for each career year on the link in the article at baseball-reference.com. These three statistics belong back in the article. Brholden ( talk) 03:05, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
My apologies, but when adding a citation to the article in the career section I totally screwed it up. I'm not much of an editer, so I don't have a clue what I did wrong. May somebody please fix this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.235.69.0 ( talk) 21:33, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
It seems pretty silly to have the tag at the top of the page about the Spanish vs. American naming conventions for Hispanic named entries. Vizquel has gone by that name for his entire professional baseball career. If one is going to allow Alexander Rodriguez (better known as Alex) to have a page without such an entry (saying that the traditional convention is to go by his nickname), then this tag should be removed as well. It's extraneous. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.248.147.167 ( talk) 00:29, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
The section talking about Omar Vizquel and The Simpson sounds more for a trivia section than for a personal section to me.
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