Template:Did you know nominations/David Hale (baseball)

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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by BlueMoonset (talk) 17:43, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
Reclosing as withdrawn rather than rejected based on nominator's statement shortly before close earlier today.

David Hale (baseball)

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David Hale pitching for the Atlanta Braves

... that, after suffering a pitching injury, David Hale (pictured) went back to Princeton University to write a thesis on how injuries affect pitchers? Source: "Majoring in operations research and financial engineering, he studied how baseball statistics might provide indicators for arm injuries. Hale, who had authored a breakout season in relief before going on the injured list on July 31 with a lumbar spine strain, had originally wanted to write about stock-market indicators, his likely profession had baseball not panned out."
- ALT1:... that in 2020, the New York Yankees released and re-signed David Hale (pictured) on the same day? Source: "That required the Yankees to release and then immediately re-sign the 32-year-old.")

Reviewed: Joan Boada
Comment: The Athletic source is behind a paywall.

Improved to Good Article status by GhostRiver (talk). Self-nominated at 14:31, 20 June 2021 (UTC).

Hi Kncny11, review follows: article promoted to GA on 20 June; is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; I didn't find any overly close paraphrasing from a sample of the sources; a QPQ has been carried out; image is OK and freely licensed. Couple of minor issues with the hooks as proposed:

ALT0: I couldn't find the date of his thesis mentioned in the article, it only discusses his graduation in 2011, did he go back after? His lumbar injury was in 2019 according to the article, though there is mention of a groin strain in 2015.
ALT1: The article doesn't say that he was released and re-signed on the same day, only that he was "briefly released"

Other than that, looking good - Dumelow (talk) 07:20, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

@GhostRiver: Please return to this nomination. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:21, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
Nominator has not returned to the nomination despite multiple pings and talk page messages, despite activity elsewhere. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:29, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
- Apologies. I have been dealing with a mental health diagnosis that makes the more social aspects of Wikipedia difficult, hence my individual editing. As it stands, it's difficult to find anything interesting about this man, so I'm fine with dropping the nom. — Ghost River 14:18, 7 August 2021 (UTC)